Thursday, November 1, 2012
Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen says the city's public trash cans are staying despite reports saying otherwise.
The public trash cans at Annapolis' city parks will remain despite reports to the contrary, said Mayor Josh Cohen. "I have no plans to go trash free in the parks," Cohen said. The city decided to privatize its trash and leaf removal services as part of its 2013 budget, which passed in June. Bates Trucking and Trash Removal started emptying residents' bins in September, but the company was not contracted to empty the cans in the city's public parks. Employees from the Department of Public Works have been emptying the cans while the city decides if that's feasible as a permanent solution. All Maryland State Parks are "trash-free parks," meaning they have no trash cans and encourage visitors to take their trash with them, according to its …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
As trash collection in Annapolis is turned over to Bates, the city took a moment to honor its former sanitation workers at Monday night's council meeting.
Twenty of Annapolis' former solid waste employees were honored with a community leadership award at Monday night's City Council meeting. "It's really one of the most thankless jobs we have in the city," said David Jarrell, the director of Public Works. The Martha Wood Leadership Award is a monthly honor from the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis, and it's conferred upon citizens who work to make "our Housing Authority communities better." City Council unanimously voted to privatize city trash and recycling services this June as part of its 2013 budget. City sanitation employees worked their last day on Friday, and Bates Trucking and Trash Removal started its new, once-a-week collection service on Monday. "Over this last year when …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Here are four things every resident with city trash and leaf services needs to know before a private company starts picking up your trash.d
City residents should have found a flier around their doorknob this week alerting them to new trash-collection dates that start Sept. 10. Solid-waste disposal, which includes trash and leaf pickup, will be turned over to Bates Trucking and Trash Removal. The privatization of city trash passed as part of the budget for fiscal year 2013, and it included some significant changes to how trash collection is handled in Annapolis. Before Bates starts picking up your trash, here are four things you need to know. No. 1—Know your new collection day. The day city employees have traditionally picked up your trash and recycling will now be the day that Bates makes its once-a-week pickup from your curb. So if the city picked up your recycling on Monday…
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Annapolis Patch sits down with city leader to get answers to questions residents have about the upcoming changes to trash removal.
Bruce Miller, Annapolis' Finance Director, took a few moments to answer some of the questions and concerns posed to Patch by readers regarding the city's decision to privatize its trash and leaf removal services. A full list of the changes as a result of the 2013 budget can be found here. My trash pickup has been cut in half, so why hasn't my bill? The short answer is: Your trash pickup hasn't been cut in half because residents can still put as much garbage out for removal as they have in the past. Miller said a substantial portion of city trash fees goes to what's called a tipping fee, which is the cost paid by the city to dump trash into a landfill. "If we put a million pounds of trash in a landfill, whether it's once a week or twice a …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Three informational mailers will be sent to residents this summer to help them prepare for major changes to trash and waste removal starting Sept. 1.
Annapolis officials have created a three-part information campaign aimed at educating residents about the privatization of its solid waste removal services. Solid waste disposal, which includes trash and leaf pickup, will be turned over to Bates Trucking and Trash Removal Sept 1. The conversion was passed as part of the city’s budget for fiscal year 2013. City Public Information Officer Rhonda Wardlaw said Annapolis launched a three-phase campaign that started the week of July 4 with mailers on current city code. Wardlaw said the yellow postcards "basically tell you what to put out on the curb." The cards regurgitate Annapolis City Code regarding trash pickup, which will remain the same even when Bates starts. Some of those changes include…
Friday, June 22, 2012
Trash pickup will drop to once a week, bulk trash will be on demand and leaves will bagged rather than blown when Bates Trucking and Trash Removal takes over Annapolis' solid waste removal October 1.
Annapolis City Council unanmiously voted to contract its solid waste disposal to Bates Trucking and Trash Removal Monday night as part of the 2013 budget. "The city did a managed competition process for solid waste where we invited bids to handle solid waste, including letting our own city guys bid on it," Mayor Josh Cohen said. "The bottom line is we are going to be contracting out our entire solid waste operation. Not just recycling, but also trash, refuse pickup and yard waste is going to be handled by Bates, which currently does our recycling." Cohen was initially resistant to the idea of contracting out the city's trash services, but ended up voting for the conversion. "I have some concerns about the accountability because it’s …
Dana Caffrey
10:43 am on Sunday, January 27, 2013
I also do believe that parks should not bre trash free. Garbage is inevitable when there are people around especially at parks, so it's necessary. http://www.trashcansunlimited.com/ more ›