\u201cTrash fees will spike for many L.A. residents in aftermath of city\u2019s fiscal crisis,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 7)? There should be at least a minimum increase every year. It is irresponsible not to have one.<\/p>\nEvery week, expensive trucks driven by skilled workers come to one\u2019s home and remove all of the trash and recycling. The trucks then travel to a landfill to dispose of it, which I am sure charges a fee, and the recycling goes elsewhere. These trucks have to be serviced, maintained and replaced, and filled with fuel. I imagine the workers are paid a fair wage. How can any city department anywhere, much less Los Angeles, operate on a budget from 2008?<\/p>\n
Obviously, the city has made some very shortsighted decisions during budget times. Citizens should feel lucky to have paid less than $10 per week for 17 years.<\/p>\n
Margaret McVey Thomas, Pasadena<\/p>\n
..<\/p>\n
To the editor: Even though I\u2019m a single-family homeowner who will see my trash collection fees increase substantially, I support this measure to balance the city\u2019s books.<\/p>\n
I just wish I could count on the trash collection picking up all three of my bins every time. On average, once a month, one or more of my bins is skipped.<\/p>\n
Eric A. Gordon, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 13, 2025 5 AM PT To the editor: No increase for trash pickup service in 17 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2076,1409,2072,2073,2075,2077,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,2079,1892,1667,2078,2074,430,72],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-budget","tag-city","tag-editor","tag-expensive-truck","tag-increase","tag-l-a-price-increase","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-many-l-a-resident","tag-reader","tag-recycling","tag-skilled-worker","tag-trash-fee","tag-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}