Fri, Jul 13 2007

When Waste Management becomes an oxymoron

I've never lived in a neighborhood where there was a garbage collector strike, but I admire Peter Hartlaub for being able to write with humor about the strike going on up in the East Bay.

Santa Cruz county has given up on Waste Management and gone to brand new contract with GreenWaste Recovery. They're so new that they're still getting their web site together, but we have hopes for good service and forward thinking with respect to environmental issues as well as educational and regional opportunities to make waste work for us instead of against us. I haven't met any of the garbage collectors who work for the company, but I'm betting they have a better attitude than the previous workers, who often left debris floating about on collection days. On more than one occasion a worker shoved an emptied cart so hard that it fell backward and was left like that, including a cart that belongs to a neighbor with back problems who was in no condition to wrestle with capsized carts. I had determined that the next time it happened I was going to call and suggest that a true professional would make sure that a cart placed in an upright position when it was full was left in an upright position once it was emptied. Luckily, we soon got word of the new service starting. I'm hoping for a better attitude from these folks, which will beget a better attitude from customers.

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