Pay more for recycling?
Did you get the summer issue of the Flower Mound town newsletter in the mail? Mine came today.
On the back, the Town is taking a poll. Would you pay $1.03 a month more on your water bill to swap recycling methods. With the new more-expensive service, you'd get a 95-gallon polycart (I guess just like your trash cart), in which you'd dump all your recyclable good. That polycart would be picked up once every 2 weeks, instead of the every-week service we currently get with the 18-gallon recycle bins.
I'm all for advances in recycling, and I'm all for making it easier for people to recycle. But it seems to me that the primary cost of this service is in the manpower required to pick up the recyclable materials, and not so much in providing an additional polycart. If we're cutting the pickup opportunities in half, why should we be paying more for that service? Seems like every-other-week service would be nominally cheaper than every-week service. Am I missing something?
The town wants your opinion, so e-mail them at townhall@flower-mound.com or cut out the form in the newsletter and bring it to Town Hall. Whether you e-mail your "vote" or drop it off, make sure to include your service address in your correspondence.
The newsletter says the Town will collate the results and present them to Town Council at a future meeting.
posted by Chip Mahaney @ 10:59 PM
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2 Comments:
I sent my NO vote in the very same day we got the newsletter. A 95-gallon container? H-m-m... 18 times 2 is 36... are people really going to have 59 more gallons of things to recycle if they have the opportunity to do so with the larger bin? Our small bin is just the right size for once a week. And, I really don't want my recyclables sitting around my garage for an extra week.
Just found the results of the survey here today: http://www.flower-mound.com/news/news.php
Only 5% turned in the survey! :(
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