Changes in Trash Collection Cycles Likely
Curb collection of trash may be reduced to once a week to cut costs, encourage recycling.
Anne Arundel County residents could soon see a reduction in their trash collection schedules. Last week, the county executive's office announced plans to reduce trash pickup from twice weekly collections to once a week. The move would reportedly reduce trash hauling costs and encourage recycling. In a recent release, County Executive John Leopold stated that the county's recycling rate had risen from 31 percent to almost 40 percent. This figure, however, was short of Anne Arundel County's stated goal of 50/50 recycling by weight. In August of 2009, Leopold appointed a Recycling Advisory Committee (RAC) to research ways to increase residential recycling. The committee was appointed to a one-year term, ending in December 2010. The RAC …
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Joan
6:40 pm on Saturday, January 22, 2011
Now that my children are gone, I too have 1 trash can once a week and 2 recycling bins full of paper and plastic. Any excess recyclables go into the trash, if they won't fit in their own bins, so a larger bin would be very welcome. As to the trash can--years ago, I lived in Washington D.C., which at the time required that garbage be placed in a tightly covered metal can. We didn't have plastic … more ›