Elizabeth Morgan wrote: "Does your message suggest that city trash collection requires garbage to be in plastic bags before being placed in a trash can or dumpster?"
Households using the city's small size trash cans were asked from the outset to put all garbage in platic bags. Sanitation workers had to reach in and pull out the bags by hand; they couldn't hitch the small cans to the back of the garbage truck to be tipped up and emptied mechanically. That may have changed on some trucks, but I think the bag policy is still in force. When I switched to a big can, I learned that the bag requirement applied to that size as well, although I've not seen that enforced. The discussion of plastic bags reminded me of a nonrecycler who wrote to James Lileks' column a while back, about the absurdity (or maybe profundity) of pulling the last trash bag from the box, and then putting the empty box into the bag. My suggestion is, whenever budget woes allow, the city reconsider offering a moderate-sized can for households with moderate amounts of garbage, as a right fit encourages recycling, and a can that's bigger than necessary discourages it. Chris Steller Nicollet Island-East Bank _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
