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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
ON ORGANIZED TRASH COLLECTIONSt Paul residents could ask those living in a town with organized trash collection to see how they like it.We in North Saint Paul had our trash collection organized about 10 years ago so we knows how it works. The town implemented the system because it would be cheaper and save our roads from all the trash trucks. We used to have 2 or 3 trash haulers pick bags up at the curbing, simple with one trip down the street for each hauler because they could cover both sides of the street with one trip. If we didn’t like our hauler we could change to a different one.We now have as many as 7 garbage trucks driving down our streets picking: trash, recycle, yard waste, bulk items AND soon we will have food waste picked up. Once food waste is picked up we will have 9 trucks wearing out our streets. The cost for all this madness is way higher than our old simple service, look out for bulk item pickup. Bulk item pickup is a scam where you MUST pay a fee if you use it or not in NSP.Oh yes we also have to find a place to store the ugly trash container, ugly yard waste container, ugly recycle container and soon ug... (TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press)