Yard-Waste Service Is Going To Cost You
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City residents who lost yard-waste pick up due to budget troubles will get it back—for a fee.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—City residents who lost yard-waste pick up due to budget troubles will get it back.
You’ll have to pay for it, though.
City council approved a one-year contract with Rumpke.
Rumpke will offer city residents weekly yard-waste service on a subscription basis.
Residents will pay $49.50 for six months of service.
Payment will be due and service will be completed in six-month cycles.
The first cycle begins Monday, April 20, and the second cycle was set start Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Residents can sign up immediately for the first cycle.
The cost will remain the same regardless of when a resident signs up for service.
Residents are allowed to put out as many as 15 bags, bundles or containers for weekly pick up.
Call Rumpke at 888-786-7531 or e-mail to begin service.
Sign-up forms and other guidelines are available online at http://www.rumpke.com.
Yard waste typically consists of organic waste such as grass clippings, leaves, twigs, branches, shrubbery and other garden residues generated during regular household gardening and landscaping activities.
Loose materials should be placed in biodegradable (paper) bags or in rigid containers marked as yard waste
Bags are generally available for purchase at home-improvement or grocery retail stores.
Branches should be cut to 4-foot lengths and tied with twine or string into bundles that are no more than 2 feet wide.
Each bag, bundle or container must weigh less than 50 pounds.
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Oh yes, please force me to pay another fee. Then could you please charge me for my oxygen use.
Columbus homeowners are adaptable….it’s the “absent” landlords who take offense.
haha u all knew that was coming
This has “FAILURE” spray-painted all over it. I hope nbc4i.com follows this, reporting the number of households that actually sign up. I expect it will be very low. Some will take waste to the collection sites themselves and come out a few dollars ahead. Some will compost and use the organic material. Some will even pay and use the city-provided service but most will do nothing leaving the city looking even trashier than it already does. If Mayor Coleman and City Council are serious about this they need to make it mandatory and they need to charge everybody.
My point was that you don’t “have to pay” for this service. There are many alternatives. Very few - if any - major cities provide this kind of service for free to residents. I certainly think this change could have been handled much better than it was on every level, but it’s really not a big thing.
Wow, I sure am glad that we have to pay for this service now. Maybe we can get that rail service that no one wants now.
This is a great service the city is offering, and because it is a nonessential service there is no reason it should be provided for free. Any resident can take his own yard waste to one of several facilities and pay absolutely nothing to drop it off. It is also entirely possible (as discussed here before) to mulch, chip and recycle yard waste from any size property and use it on the property, which is better from an environmental standpoint.
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