MikeS1
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Posts: 521
Posted:
Tim - Maybe you have some insights on this. We're in Fairfax County.
Today, I was advised by own of by coworkers that his town home community in Prince William Count has always mandated that all trash be placed out in toter/cans with attached lids. They will not pickup trash in plastic bags.
Most of the time, the owners who live in the middle of the row doesn't want to deal with the task of wheeling the toter around to the front of the building. We've got a real problem in our town home community, with folks putting about white, clear, or black flimsy bags with organic material, so the animals tear through the bags. Our trash vendor is great about picking up the mess for the most part, but it's getting old. Our guidelines currently read as follows "Trash/Recycle Containers. Containers shall be placed for pickup not earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the eve of scheduled pickup day and not later than 7:00 a.m. on scheduled pick-up day. Trash is to be placed in appropriate plastic containers manufactured for trash storage. Dark, heavy-duty plastic bags shall be used to combine smaller, whitetrash bags and other small, loose items to prevent trash from blowing away on windy days. It is recommended that wet trash (kitchen garbage, etc.) be placed in covered containers as a deterrent to scavenger animals, domestic and wild."
This time of year, the racoon, possums, wild cats and other animals are tearing through the bags and it's a mess. Fairfax County requires that residents store there trash outside in a suitable toter can with a lid, but we still have residents that store their trash in bags on their upper level deck and then complain to Animal Control about the Raccoon that climbs up on the deck.
Even with all the new, different types of bags (force/flex, contractor grade etc), I'm not sure that the current guideline is strong enough and we'd really like to require the use of a toter/can with lid when it comes to the residents putting their trash out.
I'm wondering if other communities require the use of the cans and if you all think that it's too much of an imposition to require the use of the can.
What's the consensus?
Today, I was advised by own of by coworkers that his town home community in Prince William Count has always mandated that all trash be placed out in toter/cans with attached lids. They will not pickup trash in plastic bags.
Most of the time, the owners who live in the middle of the row doesn't want to deal with the task of wheeling the toter around to the front of the building. We've got a real problem in our town home community, with folks putting about white, clear, or black flimsy bags with organic material, so the animals tear through the bags. Our trash vendor is great about picking up the mess for the most part, but it's getting old. Our guidelines currently read as follows "Trash/Recycle Containers. Containers shall be placed for pickup not earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the eve of scheduled pickup day and not later than 7:00 a.m. on scheduled pick-up day. Trash is to be placed in appropriate plastic containers manufactured for trash storage. Dark, heavy-duty plastic bags shall be used to combine smaller, whitetrash bags and other small, loose items to prevent trash from blowing away on windy days. It is recommended that wet trash (kitchen garbage, etc.) be placed in covered containers as a deterrent to scavenger animals, domestic and wild."
This time of year, the racoon, possums, wild cats and other animals are tearing through the bags and it's a mess. Fairfax County requires that residents store there trash outside in a suitable toter can with a lid, but we still have residents that store their trash in bags on their upper level deck and then complain to Animal Control about the Raccoon that climbs up on the deck.
Even with all the new, different types of bags (force/flex, contractor grade etc), I'm not sure that the current guideline is strong enough and we'd really like to require the use of a toter/can with lid when it comes to the residents putting their trash out.
I'm wondering if other communities require the use of the cans and if you all think that it's too much of an imposition to require the use of the can.
What's the consensus?