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.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Someone e-mailed me, asking how to get in touch with you because he would like to take one of those carts off your hands. How can he reach you? I tried sending you a LiveJournal private message, but I have no idea if you received it since you don't have a real LJ account.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I would be wary of that sort of thing. The City is tracking serial numbers so that could come back to bite someone later.

[ron_newman]

What sort of problem could this cause? Jad has an extra, and "John Doe" needs one, so I'm happy to facilitate a transfer. "John" lives in Somerville too.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

because they are assigned to specific houses. They don't *belong* to the people in the houses.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

And there's really no way of enforcing that. Barrels will end up with neighbors quite easily and it's unlikely the city will really bother checking. I'll bet at least 5% of the barrels are already at houses different than when the process started.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

yeah, but there's a difference between drift around the neighbourhood and Ron starting to broker the bins around town ;-)

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Guess it depends on how far downstream you are:

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the trash toters need to stay with the unit. When you move, you cannot take them with you.