I happened to look at the bulletin board while I was at the post office today and noticed a flyer about a change to the trash pickup here in town. Our 96 gallon trash can is going to be replaced with a 64 gallon trash can. Yay! This will save…..I don’t know. Nothing really. In fact it actually will cost a lot of people a lot more money.
See, right now we pay 16.00 a month, or 96.00 twice a year. This is for the 96 gallon tote service. Starting in April we will pay….16.00 a month, or 96.00 twice a year for 64 gallon tote service. Oh, and anything extra will need to be put into one of those 1.00 each “Town of Auburn, Fuck you very much for your patronage” trash bags that they sell at the stores and are always flimsy and rip.
The Town of Auburn site says that “A 64-gallon trash toter holds up to four kitchen-sized trash bags”. That’s just peachy keen. We can easily generate 4 bags, plus a bag of diapers, plus we change the cat pans every two weeks and that goes out to the trash too instead of dumping crap all over the lawn. God forbid we have a party one week.
Oh, but the good news? Our 96 gallon totes will remain as our new recycling bins. I’m tempted to hack up my existing one with a sawz all and put it in the bin.