The city also offers multiple carts for households that produce a high volume of garbage. 96-gallon carts, currently priced at $22.75, will be raised to 27.75 per month. 68-gallon carts, currently priced at $20.50 per month, will be increased to $22.75 per month The city's 32-gallon carts, currently priced at $22.75 per month, will be phased out and replaced with 48-gallon carts, which will be priced lower at $17.75 per month. The carts can be lifted and emptied into a truck with a mechanical arm, which makes pickup a one-man job, instead of requiring three-man crews.Ī new fee structure was approved to go along with the new roll carts.

Over time, Rice said the city could decrease labor costs by using roll carts. The council also approved allocating $650,000 in federal COVID relief funds to purchase roll carts for every sanitation customer, replacing a patchwork system where some residents have city roll carts, while others have their own, non-city issued trash cans.Ĭity Manager Bill Bruton noted that the new roll carts will be larger and hold more trash, reducing the need for frequent pickup. The mayor later added that 'sanitation is almost at an emergency point.'Ĭustomers can submit a request form for backdoor service to the city if they meet certain criteria, such as being 75 or older, having a Georgia handicap parking permit, or proof of certain medical conditions. 'What it does for the people that do back-breaking, in-the-weather work, I think, is my personal motivation,' Tumlin said, in support of Rice's proposal. The changes approved by the council will end the practice for the roughly 10% of the city's approximately 16,000 that still receive it. The physically demanding practice was implemented in the city in the 1960s - the city has been slowly phasing it out for more than a decade, requiring new subdivisions to use roll carts.

'People that live elsewhere couldn't believe we were doing it twice (per week),' said Mayor Steve Tumlin at a work session last week.īackdoor pickup involves workers walking up driveways to retrieve garbage from cans outside homes, instead of simply emptying curbside roll carts.

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