Once a week trash pickup

[Nick Danger]

I think this is a great idea, and wish I lived in one of the neighborhoods that had the pilot program. I think it will encourage more people to recycle, since they will not have to pay extra for it.

My inlaws live in Denton, TX that has a plan where you buy the trash bags, and however many you put out determines what you pay for trash. The more you use, the more you pay. I always thought that was fair.

Nick

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

One thing they did in Virginia that I miss is the leaf pick up.  Once or twice a season, you could rake your leaves to the curb.  The city came by with this huge vacuum to suck up & mulch all of the leaves.  You were only allowed to rake the leaves 24 hours ahead of time, to prevent them from clogging the sewers.  It was wonderful--I don't mind raking leaves, but I hate bagging or mulching them.  I usually end up with way too many leaves for my compost pile, but I hate just throwing them away.

Oh that would be sweet!  One day I was raking leaves, and I usually rake them to the curb then into bags...purely by coincidence, it just so happened that the streetsweeper was coming down my street.  Talk about perfect timing.  THe streetsweeper guy just smiled and waved as my leaves got sucked up  :-)

For those of us old enough to remember, they used to do that here in Tulsa too.  You could rake all your leaves into the street, and the street vac/sweeper truck would come by and suck it all up. I don't remember the exact dates, but I think that service was discontinued in Tulsa in the 1970s.  Another example of a useful city service to bite the dust.