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My block's recycling truck skipped us for 6 weeks, so I started weighing our trash
Our building in Rogers Park got passed over by the recycling truck for six straight weeks last spring, and nobody on the block could get a straight answer from 311. I started weighing our kitchen bag every Sunday on a $12 luggage scale, and it turned out we were tossing about 14 pounds of stuff a week that could have been recycled if pickup had just shown up. After the third complaint, the city sent a supervisor who admitted the route sheet had our alley listed as a dead end, which it is not. Has anyone else dealt with a route map error like this, and how long did it take to get fixed?
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rowank696d ago
Honestly the dead end thing on the route sheet makes so much sense and it never would have crossed my mind before. Used to figure skipped pickups were just lazy drivers or budget cuts, but a typo on a map is such a dumb, fixable reason that nobody catches. Your scale idea is kind of genius too, 14 pounds a week adds up fast and hard numbers are way harder for the city to wave off than another angry call. Tbh six weeks feels long, but once a supervisor actually looked at the sheet I bet the fix itself was quick.
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