Obama got to my trash service too

[ben4372]

My city is going to a single trash provider. I was thinking about how this can happen, so I looked into it. Golden already does it. There you must pay, even if you don't have any trash. And you can use another company, but you still have to pay the contracted company. How is this a good deal for anyone but the trash company? WTF!

[mb504]

Probably lined the pockets of a politician or two. How will they buy their mistresses gifts if they don't get bribes?

[GilpinGuy]

Sounds like someone needs to bring a lawsuit to me.

[Great-Kazoo]

Sounds like someone needs to bring a lawsuit to me.


GFL FT Collins tried to ram it down everyones wallet. Luckily the "progressives" were up in arms, over a mandate, they didn't think of. The whole monopoly thing was quashed. Same for this area, as WM was going to dictate 4-5 am collection times.

[Gman]

Moving here from Texas, this home-owner contracted trash pickup was new to me. The municipality you lived in took care of it. It was effective and you didn't have trash cans on the curb multiple days per week.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Moving here from Texas, this home-owner contracted trash pickup was new to me. The municipality you lived in took care of it. It was effective and you didn't have trash cans on the curb multiple days per week.

I first moved here from Hawaii and we also had municipal pickup. Frankly, the homeowner-contracted service is not only effective, it's superior. I'll take people contracting for different pickup days over garbage men on strike, demanding to be paid on par with teachers and violently repulsing homeowners attempting to take garbage to the dumps themselves, or the extortion for Christmas and New Years' "presents" -- don't leave a good enough tip and your garbage ended up "accidentally" strewn across the street.

[trlcavscout]

I believe Loveland and Evans are also like that, Ault is and its the best service I have ever had. They take anything I put on the curb with no additional fees. And its cheaper.

When I lived in foco we had a couple different companies ripping us off, if the can is full enough the lid doesn't shut its an extra $10 each time yada yada.

[sniper7]

Ours is through the hoa and paid for with our hoa dues.

[cofi]

I first moved here from Hawaii and we also had municipal pickup. Frankly, the homeowner-contracted service is not only effective, it's superior. I'll take people contracting for different pickup days over garbage men on strike, demanding to be paid on par with teachers and violently repulsing homeowners attempting to take garbage to the dumps themselves, or the extortion for Christmas and New Years' "presents" -- don't leave a good enough tip and your garbage ended up "accidentally" strewn across the street.
I had municipal pick up for over 25 years in Jersey and never experienced any of that....now I moved up here and we have had 2 company's take our money and disappear within a month

[clodhopper]

Loveland does a great job picking up trash. But since it is municipal, the actual cost isn't clear. I imagine if I had superior accounting skills and gobs of free time I could request city records and calc out how expensive it is. But since I have neither, I will continue to enjoy my government supplied single payer rubbish care and not worry about the price.

[kawiracer14]

I rent :-)

[rondog]

Ours is through the hoa and paid for with our hoa dues.

Same here. No complaints.

[Dave_L]

Same here. No complaints.

Yup. Helps ease the pain of paying an HOA too when you factor in what you'd pay for trash otherwise.

[centrarchidae]

Moving here from Texas, this home-owner contracted trash pickup was new to me. The municipality you lived in took care of it. It was effective and you didn't have trash cans on the curb multiple days per week.

Moving here from Northern Harare, er, Chicago, it was new to me too. But the idea of NOT having to add a bunch more city employees to the payroll in order to do another job about as well as they fill potholes, fix parking tickets, and stop street crime while giving lots of tax money to someone's cousin seemed like a neat change.

[Gman]

I guess it's relative to the service you received. Last place I lived, they dropped off green, wheeled, plastic bins. 1 guy in a truck pulls up in the alley in a truck that has a mechanical arm that picks up and dumps each can. Was quick and really efficient.

We also had a monthly service where a stake bed truck with a grappling claw would pick up large items at the street. Got rid of an old steel shed and a huge elm limb that way.

Granted, the city also supplied the electricity. It was a different situation.

...but I've also had to deal with some fly-by-night providers around here before. Waste Management has been more expensive, but they also don't hassle me if I have a big week.

[clodhopper]

I rent :-)

Dont fool yourself. You pay the cost. It just isn't itemized in your rent payment.

[gnihcraes]

We as a neighborhood did this years ago, it kept everything on the same day, not multiple vendors, multiple trucks, noisy trucks, quiet trucks. It was nice to tell the vendor - One Quiet Truck please.

But again, not everyone was required to do so.

I pay my $5 without a choice just for working in Denver to help pay for those services. Nothing I can do about it, except quit my job.

[kawiracer14]

Dont fool yourself. You pay the cost. It just isn't itemized in your rent payment.


Of course, but it's one less bill to have to pay every month.

[brutal]

We as a neighborhood did this years ago, it kept everything on the same day, not multiple vendors, multiple trucks, noisy trucks, quiet trucks. It was nice to tell the vendor - One Quiet Truck please.

But again, not everyone was required to do so.

I pay my $5 without a choice just for working in Denver to help pay for those services. Nothing I can do about it, except quit my job.

While I prefer not having anyone tell me what I can and cannot do with my property, there are some benefits to HOA's. No pink houses, etc. We have no covenants here so it can become mayhem.

Thankfully, trashy house/yard renter down the street is gone and ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME NOISY TRUCK 7AM vendor has pulled out of the area. Probably got too many complaints.