[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Same pickup frequency: twice a week, as usual. The 4 passes they're referring to is the fact that they have a truck come for the trash, AND a truck come separately for the recycling. That will be replaced by the truck coming ONLY for the trash, and that the recycling will go into that truck at the same time.

Less air pollution. Recycling requires stripping plastics of paper labeling, melting glues, bleaching and then mulching the paper, melting down the plastics, and of course the process of manufacturing it all into other things. Trash to energy involves burning it all and siphoning the energy created in the process to generate electricity. In other words - the trash isn't burned in an outdoor trash heap somewhere, allowing the toxic fumes to rise into the air and become pollution. It's contained, instead, and funneled into generators to use as fuel.

To twoplanekid regarding the costs: you're comparing the current cost, to next year's cost. Next year, if you were to go with just Waste Management alone, you would be charged $20.85 per year. If you went with Waste Management AND Covanta, it'd be $22.05. If you go with JUST Covanta, it'll be $22.24.

And so it'll be under $2/month per household, NEXT YEAR, compared to next year's prices for the alternatives.

You go girl .... great job. As Helen Reddy sang : We are Women Hear Us Roar in numbers too big to ignore!! and we vote!