Excess City Trash Carts

[jad atoui]

I am not sure how many received the new rodent-proof trash barrels from the city. My association is 3 units so they decided to drop us 3 barrels when we really just needed one for our waste needs. Moreover there is little room in the garbage storage area of our apartment considering the recycling and yard waste barrels. So I have been struggling to have the city to collect the excess barrels from outside my home. The instructions they gave me is to fill out a form and include the serial # of the bins to be reclaimed by the city and the garbage collectors on garbage day will know when they see it to pick it up with them while they are taking the garbage. Its been 4 weeks and the forms didn't make any difference. What recourse do I have? I need to get rid of these barrels and I'm losing hope of this process of them picking it up on garbage day actually working.