[Vision2020] Moscow City Council is talking trash

[Andy Boyd]

Visionaries,

 

Tim Davis, City of Moscow Sanitation Operation Manager, will be at this
month's Sustainable Environment Committee meeting to discuss the cart
system.

The meeting is Tuesday, January 15, 7:15 @ City Hall, first floor Mayor's
meeting room.

Please attend and provide input.

Thanks,

 

Andy Boyd

Manager/Education Coordinator

Moscow Recycling

208 882 0590

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:08 AM
To: Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow City Council is talking trash

 

I'd just dump all my trash on Council member Carscallen's lawn and let him
figure out what to do with it. Based on the legislation he votes for, he
likes trash. 

 

Donovan J. Arnold

 

From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:08 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Moscow City Council is talking trash

 

Courtesy of today's (January 8, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks
to Bill London.

 

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Moscow City Council is talking trash


The council wants to make all of us use new upscale lidded and wheeled trash
cans. That's OK with me. The problem is how the council wants us to pay for
trash pickup.

We now have a volume-based billing system. The more you waste, the more you
pay. And if you waste only small amounts (relying on careful purchasing and
committed recycling), you are rewarded with the cheapest rate of all - what
they call the tag-it-all option. That's the option my family chose. We pay
the $10.15 basic rate that every Moscow household pays, but we do not pay
for the trash cans used weekly. Instead we pay $1.70 to buy green tags to
place on our trash can when we do place it on the curb. Since we place our
trash can out every 3 to 5 weeks, we save about $4 monthly over the
single-trash-can rate.

Saving $4 a month ($50 a year) isn't a big deal, but it is a real economic
incentive to both buy with a goal of less waste and to recycle whatever you
can.

It's that incentive to recycle that the council is planning to eliminate.
Their present plan is to kill the tag-it-all option. Please join me in
contacting the city council members to make sure we keep the tag-it-all
option.

Bill London

Moscow

 

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Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

 

"Moscow Cares"

http://www.MoscowCares.com

  

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

  


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