LETTERS

Fewer trash collections?

Posted 12/30/21

To the Editor,

There seems to be a direct correlation between the amount of taxes we pay and the amount of money that theCity of Warwick wastes.

When I was a teenager, I worked summers on a …

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LETTERS

Fewer trash collections?

Posted

To the Editor,

There seems to be a direct correlation between the amount of taxes we pay and the amount of money that theCity of Warwick wastes.

When I was a teenager, I worked summers on a garbage truck in the city of Providence. Back in thosedays (early 1970s) everyone put out trash in 32 gallon metal bins. Somehow, those bins were adequate for the average family (predating recycling) to dispose of their waste.

These days, we have 90 gallon bins for garbage and 90 gallon bins for recyclables being collected EVERY WEEK!

These bins hold THREE times the amount that the metal ones did back when I rode on garbage trucks. I don’t have the cost at hand, but I am sure that it is fairly expensive to fund the personnel and equipment needed to pick up trash EVERY WEEK!

If current bins hold THREE TIMES the amount that the bins from 50 years ago did, WHYwould it not make fiscal sense to collect trash EVERY

THREE WEEKS instead of EVERY WEEK?

Don’t even get me started on the money wasted to print and distribute the obsolete “recycling calendars!

Armand DeLuise

Conimicut

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