Description
Remember when garbage collection was manual? Along with two or three crew members, each truck had a couple of shovels and brooms hanging on the back. Any trash spilled on the street, after collection, was carefully swept up and dumped into the truck.
Now instead of a single garbage collection, we get three separate pickups of trash, recycling, and yard waste. Each truck is automated, with a single operator. The economics of this seems byzantine, but I'm sure it works out. However, one thing that doesn't is spillage!
Every week, each of the three automatic collections results in inevitable spills onto the street: between bin and truck, or from the truck as it goes on down the street. And, without extra crew members, brooms, or shovels, spills are left on the street for the homeowners to sweep and put back in the bin, for collection, next week.
Of course, we could leave spills for the regular street sweeper to pick up. Unfortunately in most neighborhoods, street sweeping is neither regular, nor routine and, unlike garbage collection, occurs on days when the street is lined with parked cars.
Just a reminder that progress and improvement are not always synonymous.
11 Comments
Coco (Registered User)
Justine (Registered User)
Makkedah Wells (Registered User)
Makkedah Wells (Registered User)
Makkedah Wells (Registered User)
Dannie D Crowder (Registered User)
Theo Bevius (Registered User)
Makkedah, you are correct that we have a neighbor who drops whole sacks of garbage out on our street from time to time. However, in this instance, I'm complaining that I regularly need to walk the street picking up items of trash spilled from bins, sometimes my own!
Of course, in addition to sloppy garbage collection, we also have the scavengers who dump out and go through our recycling, without picking up after themselves -- a city-wide crime that I have been told (by both Recology and City employees) our police department clearly observes but refuses to act upon.
Theo Bevius (Registered User)
Theo Bevius (Registered User)
Artsem (Registered User)
Better get on the horn and let Recology know.
Recology Vallejo Materials Recovery Facility & Business Office
2021 Broadway
Vallejo, CA 94589
(707) 552-3110
Κλειστό City of Vallejo Maintenance Admin (Verified Official)
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This issue has been closed out due to the timeframe of when this request was originally submitted. We anticipate this issue has since then been resolved. If this issue has not been resolved, please report this issue to the Vallejo Recology Department.
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