RE: Private trash collection

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> Around Boston, some of the suburban towns only have town 
> dumps and do not provide any trash pickup services.  As 
> everyone understands, it is much more efficient for folks to 
> individually drive to the  town dump every Saturday instead 
> of having garbage trucks roam the town streets gathering trash.

Perhaps you do this better than we do in the UK. Town dumps here (at any
rate in the places I've lived) are characterized by traffic chaos for miles
around, caused by long, long queues of traffic waiting to get into the dump
at a weekend. If there was no pickup service for binnable trash, large
tracts of the Shropshire and Surrey countryside would disappear under an
avalanche of fly-tipping. In the small town I currently live in, the council
does run a supplementary Saturday morning service. Three garbage trucks (two
for miscellaneous, one for garden rubbish) visit the town's main free car
park for a few hours. The car park doesn't get much (other) use at the
weekend, so the scheme works quite well for rubbish that won't fit into a
wheelie, but I don't know that it would work so well for other towns. And it
supplements collection services: it would need considerable expansion to
replace them. 

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