Collection day schedule<\/p>\n
The second trash collection will occur three days after the first. For example, if your usual trash collection is Monday, you\u2019ll get a second collection on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n
The city will not collect recycling on the second pickup of the week, and twice-weekly pickup will not occur during holiday weeks.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s trash collection on a Wednesday, you\u2019ll have an additional collection on a Saturday \u2014 first time we\u2019ve ever done that. If your trash collection is on Thursday, it reverts back to your second day on the [following] Monday,\u201d said Carlton Williams, director of Parker\u2019s Clean and Green office.\n<\/p>\n
Williams said collections are already underway in the neighborhoods, which pleases Councilmember Quetcy Lozada, who said an increase in multifamily dwellings has resulted in more short-dumpings.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThis issue is visible on our street corners, vacant lots, commercial corridors and other residential neighborhoods,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWith the increase of multifamily dwellings over the past few years, and limited waste storage options in our district, residents have had to deal with overflowing trash and inadequate disposal solutions. Today marks a turning point.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The city has had to make a major investment in equipment and employees to make the twice-weekly collections a reality. It\u2019s taken two years to put together the 20 crews, made up of 60 new workers and 60 new trash compactors. Williams said the expansion has cost the city $38 million.\n<\/p>\n
Parker said buying trash compactors is a time-consuming and competitive process, sometimes requiring officials to outbid other municipalities also looking for the trucks.\n<\/p>\n
Councilmember Mark Squilla said most of his district is now covered with the additional collection days, but that it came with an adjustment period. The problems include people not completely understanding the rules, especially that they can\u2019t put trash out every day of the week, only on their designated days. The other issue is people forgetting that there isn\u2019t a second collection on a holiday week.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collection day schedule The second trash collection will occur three days after the first. For example, if your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,31316],"class_list":{"0":"post-78873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-trash-collection"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}