[Pugchief]

Originally Posted by Maker

It is NOT a cost savings. Actual costs are now more than DOUBLE

Well then, Wildwood can also adopt this model. Since all they do is waste money.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

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How many villagers can claim they have that experience?

I can

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Maker

It was introduced as a safety improvement, and a cost savings.

It is NOT a cost savings. Actual costs are now more than DOUBLE

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I don't know about that. The truck travels zero extra miles when it services my cul de sac and the others in my neighborhood.

True, I can't see how they can service the entire neighborhood without some additional miles and time since not everything is a cul de sac. But in the end, that's not my concern. The staffing and routing was changed with zero change to my monthly trash fees. How they handle their business is not my concern.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by CarlR33

Yea, but up north you had a humungous 55 gallon trash can. Since we do not have this can or a weeks worth of capacity it needs to be twice a week. You must not have a community FB page this has been commented about for a while now.

Generational issues. I thought everyone who used FaceBook had passed on to the big giant social media platform in the sky. I guess there are still holdouts.

TikTok is what's happening and X (Twitter) for the semi-seniors.

[thelegges]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Wonder if any of the workers ever got hurt on the job by being hit by passing car.

Our streets are not exactly busy ones so wonder how necessary this is?

That’s what happened at our northern subdivision. Sixteen yo late for school passed the truck as the worker was walking across to trash. He was thrown to the ground, under the wheels of the garbage truck, and run over. Worker paraplegic, teen mentality never the same. After the event trash was picked up one side at a time. Ten years later trash went to auto can pickup only driver per truck

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

I don't know about that. The truck travels zero extra miles when it services my cul de sac and the others in my neighborhood.

True, I can't see how they can service the entire neighborhood without some additional miles and time since not everything is a cul de sac. But in the end, that's not my concern. The staffing and routing was changed with zero change to my monthly trash fees. How they handle their business is not my concern.

Costs have to have gone up, no way our cost for trash removal will not go up in the near future.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I've been living in The Villages for 7 years, and they've always gone up one side and down the other here. We have Waste Management here, not Jacobs, and they use compressed natural gas in our area's trucks rather than conventional diesel. Much less expensive, and much less carbon monoxide in the exhaust.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Costs have to have gone up, no way our cost for trash removal will not go up in the near future.

I'm not doubting what you say, but ...

All that trash is burned to produce energy (supposedly). The value of the created energy should be going up, too.

Somehow, I suspect we won't get the benefit of that.

[jimhoward]

Originally Posted by Fredster

Not everyone has room for a large plastic garbage container(s) inside their home.

I personally don’t want to have to deal with large plastic trash containers. Been there, done that!

As far as image is concerned! Putting out trash two times a week is not a pretty sight, which the “Villages” apparently puts up with!

I am the opposite. I keep a standard rolling trash container in my garage. I put the trash in it so I don't have loose trash bags in my garage. I then roll the trash container to the end of my driveway and unload it onto the driveway the night before trash day. I then roll the now empty trash container back into my garage. If they went to mechanized pick up, my life would be essentially unchanged. But I am fine with the current system as well.