Hillsborough County Talks Trash With Carrollwood Residents
The county is trying to collect resident input on how garbage collection should be handled in the unincorporated areas.
Carrollwood residents are invited to talk trash with Hillsborough County. That’s not a joke! The county is looking at its solid waste collection options in advance of current contracts for garbage collection expiring next year. Right now, the county is exploring four separate options – all of which save money – and it wants resident input so badly it has set up a series of public meetings and even created a “Trash Talk” webpage. Here are the four collection options the county is exploring, according to its website: Each option saves residents a little bit of money annually. The biggest savings, an estimated $41.79 a year comes from option four. (See the attached PDF for a breakdown of cost savings.) The county’s trash collection plan will …
Katy
10:54 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
My parents (living in a different state) get household garbage collected once a week in hauler-provided roll carts then they have recyclable once every other week and yard trash once every other week. The best is the hauler provided roll carts which are quite large and you never lose a lid. The guy who rides the back of the truck no longer has to strain with cans/bags. I would recycle more w/ … more ›