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Registered Member #13362 Joined: Wed Aug 17 2016, 09:51AM : Posts: 80
Reading through what y'all are going through is mind-boggling and my heart goes out to you ("trash" shouldn't be a life stressor of this degree).
And everyone on the westerly end of the mountain who has Burrtec and complains so bitterly about them needs to read this thread and show some gratitude that we get five times the service for a little over half the price.
Registered Member #51776 Joined: Wed Mar 27 2019, 03:41PM : Posts: 71
What am I supposed to do with all the bags of pine needles I gather? I fill up at least fifty (50), 55 gallons yard bags per year. Buy a truck and trailer to haul them to the dump? BBCSD provides no yard waste bins like other communities do. Who are the geniuses at BBCSD who thought out the ramifications of their authoritarian decision. I say vote each one of them out of their tyrannical authority next election cycle. I'm also tired of the Grizzly telling me to get used to this change.
Registered Member #42113 Joined: Tue Jan 29 2019, 08:25AM : Posts: 591
Perhaps editor of the grizzly is chums with the person at CSD who made this decision, so feels forced to take an incorrect stance to not lose a close friend, because there is ZERO rational explanation available for being able to defend a drastic reduction in service(with already visible negative effect), WITHOUT commensirate tax reduction.
When we lived in Bigfork Montana, there was no door trash service, we had to bring everything to county trash pickup area where they had different bins for differemt items.
This was due to winter conditions making it impossible for trash trucks to get around.
Big Bear is different, but I don't understand how through accepted trash service norms that CSD had for the last decades that included ash and pine needle/yard debris to be suddenly cut off, and they have the blatant nerve to literally cut trash service in half, and tell us that there has been no reduction in service, so suck it. Yet now drive through any neighborhood and you see lots of houses with bags of yard and green waste that is being ignored, which used to be covered by our taxes, and that we cannot refuse to pay.
I think ssomeone should post the names of the people who made this decision so they can be held accountable. In the old colonial days, these were exactly the people who used to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
People in power hiding behind govt protections continuing to do things patently wrong are people I do not like.
We are fortunate enough to have a good friend that has allowed us to use his dump truck. We had 13 acres to clear! Let me tell you what happened to us. We used to board horses on our back 10 acres. We payed to have trash pick up on those acres. Yes it went on our tax bill. When I called CSD to request another trash bin, they said no you can’t have one! Hubby went to CSD with our tax bill and basically said WTF we are paying for it! The lady said Oh I guess you are! Karma it will eventually get them!
Registered Member #51776 Joined: Wed Mar 27 2019, 03:41PM : Posts: 71
A lot of good points made here on this forum about the ongoing issues caused by the reduction of trash services by BBCSD. Yes, I definitely would like the names of the district representatives responsible for this. After thinking about how BBCSD no longer picks up bags of pine needles, I will need to purchase a pickup truck and trailer to take my yard refuse to the transfer station. Because I'm already being forced to go there, why not take my regular trash on the same trip? This leads me to think of a great idea: How about putting a County Measure on the local ballot to eliminate the mandatory trash charge on our property taxes and make BBCSD trash pickup an optional service? I think we can get lots and lots of support for this!
Registered Member #97504 Joined: Thu Nov 07 2019, 07:32AM : Posts: 29
Someone mentioned this in chatbox and I agree 100%. The blue recycling can should be bigger and have wheels. We were already recycling a lot but now with the ONE house/yard trash can (Boo!) we try even harder to recycle what we can. And that blue can gets pretty heavy to drag out. Just this week I was wishing it had wheels! We rinse and dry everything recyclable we can and if it's gross we wash after we've done dishes, with the leftover soapy water. Not that hard and it sure makes more room in the other can. I can't even imagine how many bottles, cans, boxes and so on we will have after the Thanksgiving holiday. If they want us to recycle then they need to make it easier. Also a more comprehensive list of what can and can't be recycled should be a no brainer. I even called and asked about a few items in question and the woman who worked there didn't know.
Registered Member #7434 Joined: Tue Feb 12 2013, 10:07PM : Posts: 833
Food containers are supposed to be fairly clean so tin cans and milk bottles should be rinsed out before being placed in blue can. It is figured that you can't really rinse off a used napkin or paper plate and the food debris would cause problems at the recycling plants.
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