Use Your Supercans
Just read over on the Westover Hills Neighborhood website that the city is going to start enforcing the “use only supercans” rule. We have some beat up metal old school cans that we use for branches and such. The city emptied them out for us last week but we’ll see how long that lasts. Below is a copy of the code.
Municipal Code Chapter 31 Waste Management Sec. 31- 30, “Receptacles generally,” states:
- All refuse to be collected by the City shall be limited to containers approved by the Director of Public Works or to bulk or brush items.
- Refuse receptacles must be City – Provided ninety (90) or (95) gallon mobile containers which weigh no more than one hundred eighty (180) pounds when filled and placed for collection. Bagged refuse and boxes will be collected as part of the weekly collection.
Your link is…..interesting. Dead, but interesting.
Thanks Mike. All fixed.
That would be great if the city crews would actually empty the super cans and not skip them so that you have to try and cram two weeks worth of waste into them.
Hard to keep to the 180 lb limit when they pick up once ever two weeks.
By the way, isn’t this a change in policy? Didn’t they have this big announcement several years ago that any kind of trash can would be acceptable?
Okay – someone who’s not in the middle of making dinner for ravenous children find a link to where we request additional cans…
Ask and you shall receive. http://www.ci.richmond.va.us/departments/publicworks/refuse.aspx
By City Code, one refuse Supercan is provided to each household free of charge. A second can may be purchased for $55; just call us to order it and have the fee applied to your utility bill. You also may call us to request a replacement Supercan if yours is damaged. It may take up to a week for delivery.
Please call the City’s Customer Care Center at 3-1-1
This smacks of a city that is facing a fiscal and funding crisis.
While not an outright tax increase or service cut, it is certainly sharpening the lines as to what will and will not be provided.
I’m curious about the 6 metal cans that say “Yard Waste” that we inherited from the previous homeowner. I know that you don’t have to separate the yard stuff from regular trash any more, but I wonder if we should stop using them and some how figure out how to get rid of them?
More good reasons to up the recycling and composting!
I guess under this new City policy, you’ll just have to squash them up and cram them in your supercan.
At least yours are metal. The folks who will be having problems are those of us who bought plastic cans (with the City’s blessings) it’s gonna be the devil itself trying to squash those things up.
Perhaps I should try to freecycle those buggers. I’m betting someone could put them to use.
Uses for metal and plastic cans—drill holes around the sides,a few inches from the bottom, fill with yardwaste & coffee grounds and compost it all. Next spring, add some dirt to fill and plant yer maters in ‘em. (Or yer taters.)