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.

[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

[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.

[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.