class 8th write a news report to a daily about how inefficient garbage system in your city is affecting the people & role of community & government in disposal of garbage in a safe way?
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A deeper dive into St. Paul’s garbage controversy
November 20, 2019 - by Dwight Hobbes
Facebook/City of St. Paul
Garbage collection generally speaking is not a topic of interest for concerned conversation. Unless it’s your garbage.
Then, you want to know that it is regularly collected and, just as importantly, that you are not being overcharged. St. Paul’s November 5 vote to pass Ordinance 18-39 and keep the city’s coordinated garbage collection system, which has been in effect since last year, concluded a hotly contested debate. At stake was how it would be financed.
Proponents felt passing it meant well-to-do areas of the city would pay their fair share, and the result would mean a more equitable system of garbage collection. Opponents believed it’s not a matter of equity but rather a hardship for them that helps the disadvantaged at their expense.
Over 73,000 residential properties in St. Paul will be serviced by waste removal companies: Advanced Disposal, Aspen Waste Systems, Gene’s Disposal Service, Highland Sanitation, Republic Services and Waste Management. Before the new system, residents contracted their own trash haulers.............................