I just got off the phone with a nice guy from Cleanscapes who runs the Mayor's new Clear Alley's program. He gave me lots of information about the new program which literally is as dumb as it sounds.
EACH ONE OF THOSE GREEN GARBAGE BAGS I HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTING COSTS $3.50.
Let me repeat that.
Each one of those green plastic bags you have been putting your garbage into costs $3.50.
Not each roll.
Each bag. EACH BAG!
The "Starter Kit" that was given to me when the program was dropped on building managers was "free" or to put it more accurately we were not billed at the time for them.
Well, guess what just arrived in the mail?
I am outraged by not just the silliness of this program but its incredible expense. Nevertheless what choice do I (or we) have. Garbage is garbage.
So here are some more useful specifics for all of you:
1. I will be distributing clear plastic bags for recycling purposes over the next week or so or whenever they arrive by mail. Each one of these bags only costs $2.00 each!
2. The clear recycling bags will be used for newspapers, cans, bottles, glass, plastic, and everything else but paper. They go into the alley right next to the green bags.
3. Cardboard is picked up for FREE. Just flatten your boxes and stack the piles neatly where the garbage pickup is in the alley. This includes your pizza boxes.
4. Our recycling dumpster that is still in the alley is about to be removed so put out whatever you can now because it is going to disappear without notice---just like our other dumpster did.
This by far is the most inane of all the ideas Mayor Nichols has been promoting over the last few years. The reason for this boondoggle is that the mayor wants our alleys to be free of dumpsters because homeless people have been using them as places to sleep, do drug deals, urinate and defecate, and otherwise convert them into shelters of some kind.
How about eliminating the homeless people instead of the dumpsters? Why not do more so human beings do not need to sleep and defecate in alleyways?
As a frontline administrator of this program I can tell no one thought much about this except the fact that selling garbage bags for $3.50 each is very profitable.
Only I'm the one paying the bill for them. I'm not laughing.
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I have a ton of questions, and hope the meet the manager meeting can be sooner than later.
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