New Waste Cans...are a joke!

[jay]

I recently met an elderly woman who was slim and about five feet tall.  When she stood next to the trash cart, only her head was visible above it.

I met this woman on Sunday.  She is actually 4 ft. 11 inches tall.  She can not push the loaded trash cart to the curb.

[our2cents]

Yep, those white trucks are no different.  That's what was here.  There still must be a person walking with the truck and hooking up the cans to the back.  Really not using the full potential of these new cans. 

It's a real PITA to clean these huge cans.  I don't think I'll be using it.  I think it'll sit behind my garage until I need the space and then I'll leave it on the Tree Lawn for them to take...it's city property after all...not mine...so they can't cite me for leaving their property out there.

[jay]

Today, I drove past the area on Poland Avenue where the trash trucks are stored.  There were 8 new white trash trucks and one red rented truck.

[jay]

I recently met an elderly woman who was slim and about five feet tall.  When she stood next to the trash cart, only her head was visible above it.

The city must provide a smaller trash cart for people like this.

[our2cents]

If it was the same style truck I mentioned with the lift on the back...that's a modified standard truck.  The walker was the problem today...he ripped the bag open when he started to hand unload the thing for no reason.  Look up side loader automated refuse truck and you'll see the kind of system that everyone I know was led to believe was going to be used with these new cans.  Just like used in California and elsewhere I believe was almost one of the quotes when in discussion.  I'll use the cans and if they try to hand unload it again and break open my bags...then it's their fault and I won't clean it up.  Never had a problem with my 1-2 light bags and 1 heavier bag every other week.

[joly1584]

The truck that came down our street had the arm to lift the new cans with no problem.  There was also a "walker" with the truck to put the extra trash into the back of the truck.   A few of my neighbors didn't bag the trash as requested and some things did fly out(paper, plastic bags) when the can was emptied by the arm.  The walker picked them up if it was just a few items, one neighbor had 20+ items fly away and the walker did not pick those up.

[Rick Rowlands]

I've seen similar things happen with my garbage.  Kitty litter bags ripped open because he tries to take them out of the can instead of dumping all the contents at once.  I like the idea of getting away from manual labor by using the new cans, but you have to have the right equipment to do it.  Seems like Youngstown is cheapening out on having enough of the right equipment to do the job.

[our2cents]

This was a newer but old style truck with a lift for cans on the rear.  They even gave a handout with each can with directions to leave a 5 foot distance around the can like they had the new trucks. 

I hate to call anyone a moron, but you may be correct.  If he would've used even the improvised lift I'm sure it may have been a different outcome.

[Rick Rowlands]

I am assuming that they do not have enough of the new trucks to go around and that they have to improvise.  Also sounds like a moron trash collector.

[our2cents]

We wanted to see our new can used by a new truck to make the city look better and the pickup guys life better.  Today we watched and only part of it's true.  This large can does not make it very easy for a disabled person with balance issues to roll to the street.

So, the truck comes down the street and it's not a new side arm lift truck like it seemed they were supposed to use when they pushed this.  It was a leased or whatever standard truck with a little lift added on the rear for these cans.

The crew then proceeds to start emptying my can by hand and tossing the bags onto the street (what the hell?), then when they get to a bag with about 20 lbs of cat litter (no different than the bags used and layed out before), he tries to lift it out and snatches it on the side and it dumps into my can.  He then throws the bags he picked out already back into the can, then pulls it out to the truck and has it flipped quickly and tosses the can to the tree lawn.  I go out right after this happened and my can is full of litter and has a bunch of puddled water from who knows where in the bottom.  Nothing wet ever goes into our cans and kitty litter is dry as it clumps.

So now I have to scrub out the brand new can that's been used ONCE!  So, again the city is making my life harder and wasting money.  If the 3 bags of trash were just setting there this guy would've just grabbed them and tossed them into the truck with no trouble.  If the city really wanted this to be done right, they would have the side lift arm trucks like every other community with these cans and I wouldn't have more work to do myself...and the trash man wouldn't have had any trouble with my can. 

So, who did it really benefit to buy these cans and have a renovated regular truck setup for the same # of men on the truck to then almost do it all by hand until he busted a bag into it?