OUT OF THE PAN – When I moved to East Hollywood a number of years ago, I asked a friend who lived next door if it was a quiet neighborhood. “No,” she said, “there’s a different trash truck every morning, sometimes more than one, sometimes at 6 a.m. If it weren’t for that, it would [...]
From LA Times, News Stories on 15. Nov, 2012
A hotly contested plan to transform the way much of the garbage in Los Angeles is collected won backing Wednesday from the City Council, but the city’s trash wars are far from over as opponents immediately threatened both a lawsuit and a ballot initiative. After a raucous hearing, the council voted 11 to 3 in [...]
From KPCC, News Stories on 15. Nov, 2012
A proposal to change how private haulers collect garbage at businesses and apartment buildings was endorsed Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council. In an 11-3 vote, the council backed the idea of an “exclusive franchise” system, which would carve up the city into 11 zones, each served by one trash company. It hasn’t been [...]
From Daily News, News Stories on 15. Nov, 2012
After an intense three-year lobbying effort pitting business against labor, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday launched an effort to give trash haulers exclusive rights to specific neighborhoods. The new system calls for creating areas in which a single hauler would exclusively collect waste from commercial and multifamily buildings, instead of having multiple trash [...]
The Data Shows Exclusive
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LAANE Releases Report on Failure of Commercial Waste System in LA
Full Report Executive Summary |
Mayor and Council Leaders Promise Action
LA Mayor and City Council join Don’t Waste LA's effort to change the private waste system servicing LA’s commercial and multi-family properties. The system fails to provide enough options for all Angelenos to recycle at home or at work. As a result, nearly 70 percent of the over 3 million tons of waste that LA sends to landfills every year comes from workplaces and apartment buildings. |
