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Trucking away your trash has its price
Sunday, April 20, 2008
BY MARTIN ROZENMAN AND JIM WOODS
Upper Arlington switched this month from using its own employees to pick up trash to a cheaper contract with a waste hauler. Unlike in Upper Arlington, where residents pay by the bag, people in some communities never know the true cost because they don’t pay a separate bill.
Columbus, Dublin, Grandview Heights and Worthington cover trash-hauling costs with city income taxes paid by those who live or work there.
Columbus hasn’t charged residents a separate garbage fee for decades. Legend has it that the city quit billing for garbage when it first imposed an income tax in 1948, Dorrian said. Nobody’s exactly sure when the promise was made or who made it, but it has become an entrenched principle.
Columbus residents who want recyclables picked up must pay $5 a month. That will rise to $8.25 on June 1. Columbus is the only community surveyed that charges extra for curbside recycling.
Eight communities — Bexley, Dublin, Gahanna, New Albany and Westerville, and Mifflin, Plain and Washington townships — banded together in 2004 to negotiate a joint contract with Rumpke. It expires at the end of 2009.
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I wouldnt mind paying per bag, since I started recycling, I take maybe 1 bag a week to the dumpster. On the flip side, my parents live in UA and Ive heard people say that when they have an excessive amount of trash, they find a dumpster elsewhere to dump it.
with my home being in a former warehouse, the city wont give me a dumpster. ive fought tooth and nail but they wont do it. rumpke gave me a huge steel dumpster, must be 5.5ft tall X 6×6 for 60 a month and they dump it every 2 weeks. its great actually for me because i can put construction waste from work in it. :D
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
BY BARBARA CARMEN
More bad economic news: Even dumping the trash could become more expensive.
Franklin County’s landfill officials are giving “fair warning” that fees could increase in 2009. And those fees are shouldered by taxpayers in Columbus, by homeowners in suburbs that charge households for collection, and by businesses that hire private haulers.
The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio had a dismal first quarter: Revenue was down 6.7 percent; $8.6 million in 2008 compared with $9.2 million in 2007.
And operating costs skyrocketed — up 9.2 percent through February.
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