In Pecan Grove, they normally do not throw the bins in the street. Yesterday, though, they threw E's smack dab in the middle of the road for some reason. Mine were laid down in the grass, so I'm not sure why they saw it necessary to put his bins in the way of all our neighborhood traffic. I had baby girl with me, so just pulled them out of the street. Sorry I didn't get them all the way up the drive way.

Thank you.

I currently have two garbage cans I use for recycle. When they get full I take them to the recycle center west of town. With the bins it will be nice not having to put it in the truck and take it anymore.

Once a week trash pick up sucks. It makes the whole neighborhood stink.

Wait.

So we're getting those big ole' trash bins - which means they don't have to have as many employees on the routes since the machine does the heavy lifting.

They're reducing by half the number of pickups.  That'll save the trash company a ton.

Yet they're increasing the cost of the service?

Sounds to me like it could cost ~60% less.  That would be a win for the citizens, yeah?


P.S.: In defense of my neighbors in TF, the trash strewn down the street is most often the fault of the garbage men flinging bags around like monkeys with poo.

Has anyone ever driven through the Falls on a windy trash day?  On one particularly windy trash day, I saw garbage men picking dirty diapers and whatnot out of the middle of the street and from people's lawns.  It was pretty darn disgusting if you ask me.  So I'm all in favour of lidded bins, but..I'd rather that be something made manditory by my HOA rather than having to pay for one (especially when I already have one).
What I'd love to see is them picking up recycling.  Heck, until someone mentioned it in this thread, I had no idea that there was even a recycling center near town.  I'm all about leaving a nicer cleaner earth for generations to come.

Oh ya..the one day a week pick up idea stinks too!

So sorry, but no savings in labor.

Ok, so there's no savings in labor because they're choosing to go with an inefficient system that requires extra manpower.  Gotcha.

So given that, you've still got the weekly pickup vs. semi-weekly, so that should only reduce the cost by half? 

When I lived in Garland we were encouraged to not tie up the bags tight.  It allowed more trash in the bins (no air pockets) and it promoted the decomposing process.

When I lived in Garland they just had one dude on each garbage route and a truck that could reach out and pick up the bins without manual intervention.  I'd be interested to see how many saved man-hours it takes to justify the cost of the equipment upgrade.

We will have recycling - GOOD.

It takes more energy and creates more pollution to recycle things than it does to place it in a landfill.

Also, modern technology has evolved to the point where landfills are actually helpful, as they serve as a source of natural gas power which is far cleaner burning than fossil fuels. 

The only thing it makes any sense to recycle is aluminum cans. Everything else, glass, paper (especially paper; recycling paper kills more trees than making new paper from tree farms does), plastic, most kinds of metals, and everything else you are told to recycle is (probably well-intentioned) propaganda.

Another GOOD, is that with 1 time per week trash and 1 time per week recycling we will not be increasing the number of trips that the large trucks take down our streets. Those trucks are hard on the streets.

How much more life should we expect from the streets by moving to weekly pickups?  I mean, your statement seems  reasonable, but I'm not sure how significant a contribution over the normal life of the road we're talking about.  Most of the neighborhoods we're talking about have concrete streets, not black top.

Another really GOOOOOOD thing is that the service is staying with the local company and not going to some big conglomerate out of Dallas.

I'm all for supporting local business, but when we're talking about how to spend the citizen's money, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (and if you think I got that from Star Trek you're very very wrong.)

If a big Dallas conglomerate can do it better/faster/cheaper for the people of Anna then I think that's something we should at least give some consideration.

The trash pickup will be "semi automatic".  Which means that a man will move the bin from your drive way to the truck, attach the bin to the truck, then pull a lever.  The lever will activate a mechanism that will lift and dump the bin.  Then the man will put the bin back.

So sorry, but no savings in labor.

I dont see how this saves no labor? instead of needing three people, we will only need two on each truck, a driver and the guy who pulls the stuff onto the little arm, especially since they will most likely only do one at a time. Couple that with the fact that they will be cutting the routes in half, and I see a big savings.

And why does it have to be a man that does all this? whatever happened to equal rights?? 

The biggest reason that this was the chosen method is because it would be nearly impossible for the trucks with the fully automatic arms to get to the trash cans due to all the cars and or construction vehicles that park on the streets.  Bradshaw and sons were cheaper on their bids then any of the larger companies.

At some point, the misunderstanding that this was an attack on Bradsaw and Sons has come into play, and I don't know why.

NO ONE IS BAD-MOUTHING THEM, LEAST OF ALL ME.

My beef is with this proposed change.  Apparently some residents of Anna like to throw their trash out into the street, and/or use bags.  I have a really nifty idea:  STOP THROWING YOUR TRASH OUT INTO THE STREET AND STOP USING BAGS.

Moving laterally to a company which will provide trash bins is dumb because the people who throw their trash into the street and/or use bags aren't going to change their retarded ways just because the city provides them a means of garbage storage!  This is an overtly liberal step:  Rather than teach the citizen (and by 'teach' I mean cite or fine) we're going to GIVE THEM SOMETHING NEW TO DISRESPECT in hopes it changes their attitude?  THIS DOESN'T WORK IN REAL LIFE!

So please, let's stop making this about Bradshaw and Sons (not the issue) and focus on amicable solutions for the City.