I have been a proponent of town-wide trash pick-up here in Montville for years. Currently two-thirds of the town pays privately in excess of $260.00 per year, and the rest buy a pass to the transfer station in the amount of $55.00 per yr ($45 per yr for seniors) bringing the trash themselves.
The average household disposes approximately a ton of garbage a year (38 lbs a wk) and that’s with moderate recycling. The cost at the trash burning plant is $60.00 per ton so the “$55.00 dump pass" doesn’t even pay the full disposal fee let along the enormous amount it costs the town to transport it.
If we were to take the money we spend subsidizing trash disposal at the transfer station and put it towards town-wide trash pick-up we could drastically cut the costs for the two-thirds that pay privately and only slightly increase the costs to people who bring their trash to the transfer station.
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I estimate the cost for town-wide trash pick-up would be $100 or less per household per year. If you figured that you burn at least a quart of gasoline going to and from the transfer station once a week for a year it would cost you about $46.00, add that to the cost of the sticker and you are paying $101 a year and you don’t have to load up the car or truck with smelly maggot filled garbage once a week.
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
