11/4/2024 12:44:43 PM
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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Republic Yard Waste Msg# 1214517
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Hi Rick, this issue of Republic Services saying their customers MUST use paper bags for lawn debris needs the OPA vice president's attention. I say this rather than asking Stuart because you signed the contract with Republic when you were president. Maybe you and Stuart can get together and have this resolved.
By the way, paper bags purchased cost about $2.00 each. Some lots in OP produce in excess of 100 bags of leaves in a year - $200 or more! The contract says Republic will pick up four "bags" of lawn debris on each garbage collection day. The contract does not define "bag" and does not stipulate "paper bags." Republic drivers are apparently telling customers they MUST use paper bags, and any leaves or lawn debris in black plastic bags will not be picked up. The interesting sidebar to this is the garbage in cans, the lawn debris in paper bags, or lawn debris in black plastic bags all go into the same truck on garbage collection days.
Association members need your help. Regards, Joe |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Jack, you asked me the following: Republic passed by mine and neighbors 4 bags of leaves in plastic bags today. The answer I received from OPA was: "Per the contract, Republic will take up to 4 bagged leaves placed in paper bags as they are taken for recycling. If placed in plastic bags, they will need to be placed in the trash receptacle." I thought the current contract said nothing about having to use paper bags for yard debris. . I have over 20 plastic bags already packed. Was prepared to switch to paper but not this early. Am I screwed? JB So. looking at the actual wording in the contract, I 'find the following references to yard waste: (a) "Yard waste" shall mean all accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs, branched, brush, vines, garden plants, and other similar organic materials as the result of the cultivation and maintenance of lawns, shrubbery, vines, trees, and gardens." and (a) The Company shall collect up to a maximum of four (4) bags of leaves and/or yard waste per collection. Brush, tree limbs and shrub trimmings shall be collected provided that they are cut into 4-foot lengths and tied into bundles weighing not more than 50 pounds. I am no lawyer, but if the contract intended to define yard waste " bags" as only paper bags, that should have been specifically stipulated. It was not. The contract only says four (4) bags. Perhaps OPA Counsel Bruce Bright will offer an opinion but my civilian opinion is they must pick up yard waste in plastic bags or paper bags. For what it is worth, Republic has been picking up a neighbor's trash and he rarely puts out a can. For example, last Friday he put out about 8 black plastic bags and a small pile of wood. He has never used paper bags. They took every item. The week before they took none, and that was the first time in years they failed to take all the bags and wood debris he put out. Maybe it depends on the crew??? |
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