Dive summary:
- City waste authorities in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, switched to a new collection system last week, hoping to improve collection but have instead fallen behind schedule angering residents.
- The workers claim each house stop is now taking 40 seconds each instead of the normal 10 because residents have been putting the bins so close together that the automatic arm of the garbage tuck cannot grasp them.
- Workers used the weekend to catch up but are looking now towards education programs for residents to solve the problem in the future.
From the article:
The city’s managers hope some work this weekend will get them caught up on pickups of trash and recyclables, and cool another furor in a season of Winnipeg waste woes.
It appears an education on trash placement for homeowners might be needed to keep the system up to speed — or more personnel in contracted garbage trucks.
A move this week to an expanded, citywide use of wheeled carts for garbage and reusable materials has caused snags in the municipal waste department’s collection schedule — largely, an administrator says, because many homeowners have put their 240-litre containers too close together to make them easily accessible to automated-lift arms on the trucks. ...
