Contributor Opinion: Joe Jordan On Trash
Dec 17, 2007 13:46 - 2 Comments
The following >contributor opinion is by Joseph Jordan:
At last week’s Mayor and Council meeting, newly elected Council Member Piotr Gajewski asked for the Refuse and Recycle (trash) issue to be put on tonight’s agenda, and instructed city staff to make new recommendations on once versus twice a week pickup. Reversal to reduction in service would have a severe impact on many Rockville communities and citizens. We are a city with many diverse neighborhoods and needs, not just newer developments, designed to accommodate modern refuse and recycle pickup methods.
Because the issue is on tonight’s agenda, a vote on staff recommendations will take place, and the outcome will almost certainly be for going to once a week service, and also to abandon the idea of an approved Refuse and Recycle Commission. This was to be a group of citizens that would weigh pros and cons of the approved semi-automated, twice a week service, and report back to the city with further recommendations.
Here is a quote of Mr. Gajewski from an article in last week’s Gazette… ”I think next week we will move to reverse course and instruct staff to move in the direction of once-a-week collection.”
If you care about this issue, you have an opportunity to be heard this evening.
Joseph Jordan, Newmark Commons
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I know it’s kind of pointless as everyone has their own opinion on the issue, but I really hope we move to once weekly service. Less cost, less emmisions, less injuries and added simplicity to recycling… I really don’t understand how you can be against this.
I understand the less emissions and all, but I really like the twice-weekly service. If it’s just once a week, what happens when that day is a holiday? Then you end up having to store two weeks of trash, which not only takes up a lot of space which some of us don’t have to spare, but ends up with you having a lot of stinky trash, especially in the summer. If you’ve got a large family or maybe a baby in diapers, that trash is going to get stinky fast. I’ve lived with both weekly and twice-weekly and much prefer the twice-weekly; it really keeps your home and front yard cleaner, I think. Also, it’s a great service. We could have lived in Potomac and gone to the same high school cluster but chose Rockville for the excellent city services. I think this is a quality of life issue.