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Tires and other debris filling up the doorway and planter box. It's been there more than a week - is this the new normal? I noticed in the paper that Waste Management, in compensation for changing the pricing on its composting scheme to make economic sense for restaurants, will now be even slower at picking up illegally dumped items on Oakland's streets. This is not an acceptable trade-off. If composting doesn't make sense, we shouldn't bother with it. But the streets of this city are a mess, with heaps of rotting debris piled high. Neglecting them even more so we can all feel "green" shows where the city government's misplaced priorities lie.
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As I understand it, Public Works only gets involved if the garbage is actually blocking traffic. Otherwise, it's Waste Management that picks it up. Here's a quote from the article I referred to above:
"Through the newly amended contract, compost collection rates immediately dropped to 30 percent below that of trash collection. Business’ compost rates will be determined by the size of the bin they use, as well as the frequency of collection. To achieve citywide cost reductions, Waste Management negotiators reconfigured programs to create easements for low-income seniors and exemptions for multi-family building owners still occupying a second unit, and lowered the number of daily pickups around the city for illegal dumping. They also cancelled plans for a local customer call center, which was projected to have cost $800,000."
Here's the article: https://oaklandnorth.net/2015/10/09/oakland-city-council-votes-to-reduce-compost-collection-rates/
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