![]() “I’m receiving reports that only that one can, that made it through the reporting system, gets picked up and the other cans on the street are left behind,” committee Chairperson Natalyn Archibong said.įolks who apply for a job on a trash truck – which once was a coveted position because of a steady paycheck and benefits – have to wait 10 days or more to be hired. Photo provided by Andrea BooneĮntire streets have been skipped by trash trucks, and a truck that finally did arrive picked up the bin of only the household that called for service. ![]() The city’s understaffed sanitation department was unable to pick up street debris during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and the situation is somewhat unchanged. But I’m upset.”Ītlanta City Councilmember Andrea Boone (bottom right) coordinated a group of about 120 volunteers in September 2020 to pick up trash along Martin Luther King Jr. Until we start prosecuting these people and putting them in front of a judge and fining their behind, well, we’re just going to have to fine them and put them in jail. “People are dirtying our city with trash. “I’m talking about a location in Oakland City, where someone dumped two blocks of debris over the weekend,” Atlanta City Councilmember Cleta Winslow said. ![]() Committee members used the moment, at the July 13 meeting, to air a host of other waste-collection concerns less than five months before all city posts are up for election.įor starters, neighborhood volunteers were left to pick up furniture and other household debris that was dumped on a neighborhood’s street. To offset the staffing shortage, the scheduled collection of yard waste will be reduced from once a week to twice a month. The concerns arose during Public Works Commissioner Al Wiggins’ presentation of the plan by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ administration. This month, members of the Atlanta City Council’s Utilities Committee were less receptive to the plea of short staff. In 2020, Covid-19 was blamed for staffing shortages on garbage trucks, and sluggish pickup in neighborhoods was generally accepted. Similar woes were recounted at this time last summer. Solid waste that’s left on the curb, and not picked up in a timely fashion, tends to get picked over and scattered through a neighborhood.
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