Comments

You must log in or register to comment.

batmansfriendj t1_j8ooqef wrote

I once watched a trash man take a bag, attempt to throw it in the back of the truck, miss, spill the bag all over the road in front of the house who’s trash he was supposed to be taking away.. then get on the back of the truck and away it went. Trash/bag all over the street. It was almost impressive how much this man did not care about his job

25

nato_fl t1_j8oqhf9 wrote

Casella in a nutshell

12

NativeMasshole t1_j8p421l wrote

My work dropped them last year because they're so awful. They kept forgetting to empty our dumpster. We're located in the same damn plaza!

11

BlackstoneValleyDM t1_j8pd6mf wrote

the way people leave their recycle out is mind-boggling. light items like empty plastic jugs and hollow boxes on top. no lids or attempt to pack things in a way to weigh/secure them

12

masshole4life t1_j8spc1g wrote

you speak truth, but let's not pretend that careful packing is going to put a stop to full bins being literally picked up and tossed by the wind.

30mph wind gusts are not rare here. that's just a meteorological fact. i have had to comb my entire neighborhood numerous times looking for my bins because i committed the sin of being at work when they were emptied.

if the bins need to be coddled via special packing and coming home from lunch break to retrieve them from the neighbor's bushes, it's probably not a very good system for this particular city.

i continue to advocate for bags instead of bins. if bags are too stupid to get behind, then the recycling program should simply be declared a failure, because that's exactly what it is.

2

BlackstoneValleyDM t1_j8t4r0u wrote

I used to also leave a decent rock on my bin to weigh it down, the guys seemed to get the hint and put the rock back in my bin after they emptied it.

Goofy and imperfect, but definitely helped with the runaway bins.

3

orzechod t1_j8o887d wrote

it looks like at least two un-lidded bins were put on the curb - what did you think was going to happen to their contents if they get knocked over or it gets windy?

10

GrassyQuadrangle t1_j8pf0jq wrote

The lids are a joke. The recycling guys smashed ours within two weeks.

13

1kSupport t1_j8rmkts wrote

Yeah also 50% of the time if the lid is on they don’t even bother taking any of it

2

catpate t1_j8ohz6b wrote

It’s windy af today

7

constantlybullshit t1_j8o5dui wrote

Bigsteve needs to get off his bigfatass and pick that shit up buddy. Grow a fuckin pair

6

1kSupport t1_j8rmvcf wrote

Just accepting paying for a service that isn’t actually rendered would be the opposite of growing a pair lmao

1

Otherwise-Vehicle165 t1_j8oovab wrote

Nobody picks up their bins i noticed lol and the wind sent ours like a block down the st

5

masshole4life t1_j8sqdys wrote

people have jobs, ya know. if the bins get emptied at 10am but the owner doesn't get home til 5, the bins will in fact blow away. they will blow into people's cars and onto their property. they will be stolen. they will get smashed by the wind.

the whole implementation of our recycling program is braindead. stupid suggestions by stupid people who only consider their personal experience and not the experiences of the city as a whole.

bins with lids. lol

1

Business_Fly_5746 t1_j8pb6qq wrote

It doesn't matter how windy it is, it's just an excuse for them to cover up how bad they are.

4

perry3335 t1_j8oplyg wrote

Send an online request to have it taken care of through the customer service form and if that doesn't work enail your councilor.

I see an area like this at the top of Vernon that looks very bad with trash everywhere. The residents just dumped the trash on the sidewalk haphazardly, DPW picks up what they can and the rest literally just sits there, at the end of the month it accumulates to the point where the sidewalk is blocked with trash and the wind blows a lot of it everywhere.

Once a month I go on the customer service form online and submit a request to have it taken care of. Sometimes it works sometimes they ignore it and then I email my councilor who takes care of it within a couple of days.

3

masshole4life t1_j8squpu wrote

the landlords should be fined for that shit. your tenants, your problem. my taxes should not subsidize picking up after trashy tenants of slumlords.

3

perry3335 t1_j8u25d0 wrote

I fully agree which is why I take to emailing my city councilor every few weeks, if other people did it too I'm sure they would get sick and tired of hearing about it and would actually move to do something.

The funny thing is that if I look up the address on Google maps, even the footage they have shows the house with trash in front of it.

2

Harpua111 t1_j8pidg2 wrote

Go pick it up like the rest of us do

3

Old-Spend-8218 t1_j8pxdwp wrote

Wista is a chit 🕳

3

Oh_gotcha39 t1_j8qye07 wrote

Because the people that live there make it so. Sad state of the world TBH.

1

Jaekash1911 t1_j8qp56o wrote

Broken glass all over my street every week after trash day

3

Theundercave t1_j8o3u6b wrote

Stop bitching and clean up lol would you rather spend hundreds of dollars a month for a private company to do it and end up with the same results?

2

Fun-War6684 t1_j8rsb5g wrote

One would expect their city assigned recycling and trash pickup to you know, pickup the trash and recycling

2

IIRizzII t1_j8oj1sj wrote

Are you new here?

2

teamblacksheep t1_j8p6p64 wrote

That’s the cleanest part of Worcester

2

Fun-War6684 t1_j8rrvot wrote

On the day of the freeze I watched a bin fly uphill at like 15mph

2

Fun-War6684 t1_j8rs505 wrote

Was nice of them to deliver a new bin after completely demolishing my other two in less than a year. Like cracked in half type damage

2

neon57O t1_j8pjlkf wrote

picking it up is way overrated.

But posting about it to reddit helps everything

1

masshole4life t1_j8sr5wt wrote

yes, we should all just pick up after others instead of raising the issue in a public forum and discussing solutions.

2

neon57O t1_j8sszce wrote

It would take less time to pick up said trash then what you spent typing that response.

2

Turbulent_Leg6503 t1_j8rgykh wrote

Their union bosses need to see this post. It’s fairly representative

1

orions_cat t1_j8sha0o wrote

I made a post on here about a year ago about the trash in Worcester. I've only lived here a little over a year but I come from a city that I felt was pretty similar to Worcester but with a higher population. The other city is nowhere near as trashy as Worcester - like it's a glaring difference. Our recycling bins were the exact same large bins with wheels and a flip top lid as our trash bins, just one was brown (trash) and one was green (recycling). Recycling only needed to be collected every other week because the bins were so big.

I loved the comments I got on my previous post though. Over 100 comments where 60% were people telling me "If you think this is bad, don't go to New York City!", 40% were people telling me if I don't like it I can clean it myself or leave, and about 10% of people agreeing. Hahaha

My favorite part about the random New York comments was that I responded to them by saying, "Yeah I don't plan on ever going to NYC." and then the other person would comment back, "Oh but you should! There's so much culture!" Haha you just told me not to go because of the immense trash everywhere...

1

crando_beandip t1_j8opd3k wrote

As a resident of a town with no trash service, shutuppa yo mouth

−3

jpm01609 t1_j8om0zv wrote

Go back where you came from and quit complaining

−10