City wants to limit some trash pick up to once a month
There is an important issue coming up on the September 25 Commission agenda that will limit trash pickup to once a month (that includes debris, tree trimmings, yard trimmings, and those items placed for pick up on Friday mornings).
Take a moment to email your Commissioners, the Mayor, City Manager (email addresses below) and let them know how this will affect the residents of Coconut Grove who live in a lush area with a heavy tree canopy. This will also impact residents preparing for hurricanes who prune and trim their trees.
Your attendance at the City Commission hearing on Thursday, September 25, at City Hall (3500 Pan American Drive) will be important.
MannyDiaz@miamgov.com
mspence@miamigov.com
AGonzalez@miamigov.com
TR@miamigov.com
JSanchez@miamigov.com
msarnoff@miamigov.com;
pgh@miamigov.com
rhernstadt@miamigov.com
Take a moment to email your Commissioners, the Mayor, City Manager (email addresses below) and let them know how this will affect the residents of Coconut Grove who live in a lush area with a heavy tree canopy. This will also impact residents preparing for hurricanes who prune and trim their trees.
Your attendance at the City Commission hearing on Thursday, September 25, at City Hall (3500 Pan American Drive) will be important.
MannyDiaz@miamgov.com
mspence@miamigov.com
AGonzalez@miamigov.com
TR@miamigov.com
JSanchez@miamigov.com
msarnoff@miamigov.com;
pgh@miamigov.com
rhernstadt@miamigov.com
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BETTER GET LOTS OF RESIDENTS THERE, THIS IS PRETTY MUCH A DONE DEAL
COMMISSIONER SARNOFF TRIED TO GET A BETTER DEAL FOR DISTRICT 2, BUT THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS ARE HAPPY TO LET US SUBSIDISE THIER EXPENSES
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I do not understand. They keep saying the city has no money, continue to take away resident services but spend millions on a Stadium, Tunnel and Street Car. Oh and that great idea of a Ferris wheel in a Hurricane prone city. How about using money to save citizens on their property taxes for city services, or atleast to maintain the services that exist today. The economy is in shambles, the markets are droping and I have to read the papers on the city spending money on things they do not need. At least not now.
This is an important issue that should be discussed. As a society in general and a community in particular, we generate too much trash/waste. Our current system is flawed, an out of sight out of mind mentality. Take a drive down to "Mount Trashmore" over the weekend and you see where all of our trash goes. The mountain of trash keeps getting higher and higher. Under the current program, we can generate as much waste as we want without consequence or direct cost. There is no incentive for us to identify ways in which we can reduce our waste stream. In the case of the roadside pickups, there are several deficiencies with the current program, 1) there is no segregating of the waste stream, i.e. you can pretty much put whatever you want at the curb be it old furniture, appliances, yard waste, plastics, etc... It all goes into the some dump. 2) there is no composting of yard waste 3) the trucks (2 for each pickup; 1 to pick it up and one to haul it) hauling the debris race through our community burning gas and spewing diesel fumes. Clearly there is a better more cost effective and environmental solution 4) it's got to be pretty expensive to pick up trash once a week where it would be 1/2 the cost to just do it once every other week or maybe even once a month. The argument for special pickups during the hurricane season or prior to a storm is valid and could easily be implemented. The key is to get each of us to focus on how much waste we generate individually and what can we do to reduce, reuse or recycle it rather than dump it at the side of the road to have it hauled out of sight. Perhaps another solution would be the construction of recycling and composting centers strategically located in our community. Currently, if we have to discard a partially used can of oil-base paint, old gas/oil or old flourescent bulbs we have to take it to the only two locations in all of Miami-Dade County (West Dade at 8831 NW 58th Street and in South Dade at 23707 SW 97th Avenue). Clearly, this issue is worth discussing further so as to better indetify both the immediate and long-term costs of how we handle our the waste/trash we generate. Thanks for the heads-up on the September 25th meeting.
anonymous above, great comment, great points. people have to change their mindset about the waste they are putting out into the system. there is no attempt to reuse, donate, recycle, or compost. and there's certainly a lack of responsibility concerning toxic material disposal. hopefully this cut back in pickup will come along with some sort of public education effort about these issues. our trash is out of sight, out of mind... maybe once it's piling up in people's yard and garages, they'll start understanding the true impact.
We should all compost our yard trimmings. It's so easy. Besides those dump sites around the neighborhood are an eyesore. The one at the far corner of my house is huge, is a foot deep and mysteriously fills up with discarded junk each week.
There needs to be a better solution. Those trucks are so huge and noisy and fast. They terrorize me and my dogs, so I try to time our walks when they aren't racing through the streets!
Self responsibility for what we purchase and consequently discard needs to be personally addressed. And as far as yard clippings and tree cuttings, besides composting the small stuff (due to limited space) maybe a scheduled by appointment pick-up twice a month or less be allotted.
how about we ask the city to create a community compost pile. When i lived in NJ there was a site in the town where you could dump all your vegetative waste. They would then turn around and let people take the resulting organic matter for free. I was always amazed how the pile would smoke due to the activity of microorganisms. It was a pretty big set of piles which if I recall they would turn with a back hoe of sorts.
I think this is a great idea! The neighborhoods should look nicer and maybe people will actually bag their trash. Also no more traffic blocks every Friday. People will have to be more responsible.
1 concern would be people leaving their garbage our for the entire month. That could be bad. The City will have to do a better job enforcing.
Oh, great. Just shoot me. I live in the North Grove and have one of those dump pits on my swale. The things that add up there in the course of the week astound me. Please, please, please remove them once a week.
I confess that I also use the hole. Royal palms can be nasty sorts of trees and with the other lush foilage around here, people really need a place to dispose of the stuff. Could you imagine how unsightly it would be if it were to be allowed to build up for a month?!!
Look, I've given up on our schools. I've given up on our roads (although Sarnoff Circle is quite nice) now don't make me give up on trash collection!
Why do the Commissioners need to take away one of the few things they provide? Weekly pickups. Why is it is easy for them to take $1 bil from us for a baseball stadium controled by a private owner? Why is it so easy for the Commissioners to take money from us for museum building for a museum that has no collection? Yet they are happy to reduce our services and increase our taxes?
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