Letter: Two trash pickups not cost effective

Letter: Two trash pickups not cost effective



Richard Burgio
St. Augustine
Publication Date: 12/04/08


Editor: With the emphasis on "cost effectiveness,'' is it necessary to have two house trash pick-ups every week?

The city of St. Augustine spent a lot of money on "giant'' garbage cans for everyone. These certainly will accommodate a week's worth of trash.

We have trash pick-up on Monday, yard trash on Wednesday, and trash (again) along with recycling on Thursday -- two days later.

Why not better utilize our manpower, conserve fuel, and have less maintenance on vehicle usage by going to once a week?

For example:

Wednesday -- yard trash.

Thursday -- house trash and recycle.

Come on people -- make the giant cans do what they are designed to do; cost effective/environmental effort/wiser utilization of manpower.

Richard Burgio

St. Augustine


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