tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37843643.post5533311658109756469..comments2023-10-24T08:49:33.385-04:00Comments on Subdivision Trustees - St. Louis Metro Area: County Officials Select Trash Haulers for Three Districts Raises Serious QuestionsBill Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17615251922927001013noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37843643.post-41908972431432092782008-06-07T19:19:00.000-04:002008-06-07T19:19:00.000-04:00Anyone who shops at Wal-Mart has no room to compla...Anyone who shops at Wal-Mart has no room to complain about local businesses losing out. <BR/><BR/>Fred Weber will be the only landfill in st. louis county soon- I doubt rates will raise for lack of business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37843643.post-53975811033991179882008-05-17T14:19:00.000-04:002008-05-17T14:19:00.000-04:00It all sounds good, it all sounds sensible, and ...It all sounds good, it all sounds sensible, and it all looks attractive...........but have you noticed, half of the bids have been opened and let. 2 have been offered to a French owned, large national company, the other 2 have been awarded to large national companies, one owned in Canada, the other and American Company. None of the bids went to any local private companies. You can bet the next 4 districts bid will also wind up in the hands of the large national (and foreign owned) companies as well. This will eliminate all the local businesses permanately, and when the second round of bidding comes out, there will only be about 3 available national companies to bid. Guess what, prices will increase substanstially.<BR/>Also, keep in mind, when current landfill volumes start to diminish and slow down at the landfill, the landfill operators will certainly increase their rates for disposal to regain some of there profits. Little to no competition in the disposal markets, and no rate restrictions either. <BR/>Within 5 years, your waste/recycle rates will be looking like your cable TV rates, then, who you gonna call?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37843643.post-2938450371522983182008-05-17T13:29:00.000-04:002008-05-17T13:29:00.000-04:00It's understandable that rates will vary from one ...It's understandable that rates will vary from one hauler to another, but for them to vary from one district to another with the same hauler just doesn't make much sense, no matter how small the difference. <BR/><BR/>We keep hearing about trash rates being reduced, there are indeed some people paying more. We need to hear from them.<BR/><BR/>There are still some gray areas like paying for trash services while a person is not living at the residence (wintering in Fla); people living next door and across the street in or not in a subdivision or on different districts, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37843643.post-44775227840258375452008-05-17T11:01:00.000-04:002008-05-17T11:01:00.000-04:00Florissant to explore having a single citywide tra...Florissant to explore having a single citywide trash hauler <BR/>By Phil Sutin <BR/>ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH <BR/>Saturday, May. 17 2008 <BR/><BR/>FLORISSANT — The city is exploring having a single hauler collect trash and <BR/>recyclables. But that would be done only if a sizable majority of residents <BR/>support the idea, Mayor Robert Lowery said Friday. <BR/><BR/>Florissant is one of seven municipalities in the county where households <BR/>arrange for their own trash collection.<BR/><BR/>In a controversial move, St. Louis County is converting the unincorporated area <BR/>from household-arranged collections to trash collection districts with a single <BR/>hauler, except in subdivisions that opted out of the districts earlier this <BR/>year. <BR/><BR/>Lowery said he will involve the public heavily before the city decides the <BR/>issue. The approach, he said, will be "entirely different" than the county's, <BR/>he said. <BR/><BR/>Florissant shortly will ask haulers what they would charge, the mayor said. "I <BR/>want to save money for the residents," he said. <BR/><BR/>In a trash collection district just east of Florissant, the trash hauler IESI <BR/>on Wednesday submitted the apparent low bid of $12.09 a month for once-a-week <BR/>collection of trash and recyclables and twice-a-year bulky waste pickup, <BR/>starting Oct. 1. <BR/><BR/>Current hauler prices in Florissant vary. For example, the monthly charge of <BR/>Meridian Waste Services is $13.75 for once-a-week trash collection and $5 for <BR/>once-a-week recycling pickup.<BR/><BR/>psutin@post-dispatch.com | 314-863-2812Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37843643.post-83704064249081870372008-05-16T13:22:00.000-04:002008-05-16T13:22:00.000-04:00Why do people have such a hard time understanding ...Why do people have such a hard time understanding that the rates may vary a bit from district to district? First, it is a competitive bidding process and not all haulers may bid in all districts, so it is natural that the bids submitted by haulers could vary a bit from district to district. More importantly though, the size of the districts vary, so the larger districts are likely to see lower bids submitted because the hauler may be willing to accept a lower rate for a larger number of customers. It's simple economic factors at play. District 1 will serve 12,134 households, and IESI won with a bid of $12.09. District 7 will serve only 8,386 households, so it is not surprising that the winning bid from Veolia was a little higher at $12.40. Besides, the variance between these two bids is a mere 31 cents a month, an insignificant amount. The bottom line is that the trash district bids are yielding monthly trash rates that are 30-50% lower than what people are currently being charged by various haulers for once a week pick-up plus recycling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com