Bring out your trash!**

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Better throw your trash away before January 1st!

# Trash stored in other non-regulation barrels or unapproved containers will be considered bulk items: they will be disposed of, but will be considered in violation and ticketed appropriately.

Containers put out for pickup may not exceed 50 pounds when full;

What counts as trash? Does furniture? What about furniture too large to fit in an approved container? What constitutes and approved container? Will landlords be required to supply these new approved containers?

How would you know if your trash exceeds 50 pounds if the container is on wheels? Again what about a heavy piece of furniture or other trash? Now what? Is there a place to bring it to if it won't be picked up?

**In an approved container.

Comments

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

It *is* relatively annoying, the number of regulations and the such. However, anyone practicing common sense and any amount of courtesy, recognizing that another human being is responsible for hauling that crap away would do all this and more anyhow.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

I understand completely. Look, I'm not against lids on trashcans or only putting your garbage out ON trash day or not adding your trash to your neighbors ... that should all go without an ordinance. I also don't think garbage collectors should have to break themselves trying to pick up trash. I just feel like some of these regulations, in true Somerville style, are over-written and unclear. I feel like they could easier to read.

I'm moving back to the square after some time away so maybe you all got flyers explaining this stuff in plainer terms? But if not, it would be just like city government to impose new regulations without making an effort to educate or properly roll them out.

[damsel-ophelia.livejournal.com]

I know neither me or my girl saw any such flyer. My landlord (who lives downstairs) told us about it, but only really pointing out what we were doing that needed changing. It would make sense that if flyers were sent, they would be sent to those who are listed as the property owners as they would be the ones ultimately responsible to the city (though I am sure if my landlord got ticketed for something one of us did, he would surely make us cover the cost!) This announcement may have gone in the Somerville Journal, but if you you don't read it you don't see it.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

come on over to medford, the water is fine.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Alas, I just signed a lease for 1/15 in the ville. Didn't rule out Medford when we were looking though.

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

several month ago, before all these official regulations they started ticketing people who put their trash in bags, so many people went out and bought barrels. Then because of the typical backlash they always get they stopped issuing the tickets and I believe they refunded a lot of them (kind of like the snow storm that wasn't a few years back). I too bought new barrels because of this and there were no barrel regulations at the time. Everybody is buying these bigger cans with the wheels on them. I don't know of any other municipality that has a 32 gallon limit barrel regulation! It is retarded.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it "retarded."

For one, sanitation is already a back-breaking, very physical job. I'm all for as much workplace ergonomics and people not hurting themselves on the job to the extent that they won't be able to *do* their job. If that means splitting my trash over two barrels, instead of one ginormous one, I'm happy to oblige.

I *am* irritated that city government almost never bothers to roll out new policies and legislation that most people would agree with or even approve of if only the notification came via a letter or flyer instead of a ticket. For me, it's not the message -- it's the delivery.

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

The 50 lb limit is ok then. Maybe what they should do is look into getting the automated trucks that are outfitted to pick up and dump the larger cans.