![]() ![]() We are taking measures to speed up the removal process. Removals will be made from alleys and curbs on:ĭPW appreciates residents’ patience with the slower than anticipated pace of this operation. Pickup will be made from alleys and curbs on:ĭPW will follow this collection schedule to collect from twice-a-week trash collection neighborhoods. “So, now we are taking all old cans that remain in public space to relieve residents of the cluttered alleys and curbs.” Director Howland added that residents who want to keep their old cans MUST take them from public space (alleys and curbs) and put the cans on their own property after their collection day, otherwise the cans left on public space will be removed and not returned.ĭPW will follow this schedule to collect from Supercan (once-a-week trash collection) neighborhoods. “We have had requests to remove thousands of old, unwanted cans and when we go to these addresses, we find two, three and four times the number of cans for which we have requests, and that volume overwhelmed our resources to collect them in a timely manner,” said DPW Director William O. More than 60,000 cans have been collected but there are many thousands more that remain in alleys and along city streets awaiting removal. Since receiving their new Supercans or 32-gallon trash cans and new recycling cans, District residents have indicated they want the old cans removed. Homes in neighborhoods with narrow streets and alleys receive twice-weekly trash collection and use the smaller 32-gallon plastic rolling carts (mini-Supercan), or Clean City trash cans. Hard to see how anyone could miss it.(Washington, DC) The Department of Public Works announced today that it will conduct a citywide blitz to remove all old, unwanted Supercans, 32-gallon trash cans and 32-gallon recycling cans from public space. Most households use the 96-gallon plastic rolling cart, or Supercan, for their trash. And actually lay eyes on my poor old wheels-up Supercan. All I can do is file another 311 collection request, and hope that this time they manage to come to the right place. Why couldn’t they see my appropriately placed and inverted Supercan? Beats me. Nope, nothing on my phone that day but political send-money calls. And if for some reason they couldn’t see it, there was a phone number for them to call. ![]() Really? There my derelict Supercan sits, empty and upside down, blocking half of my garage, where it’s been awaiting DPW pickup for a month, but is apparently invisible to them. reported that upon their arrival, there were no containers available for removal, i.e., at the point of collection, empty, and flipped over.” But when the day came, this message popped up on my phone: “the container services team. Put it at the regular trash pickup location, upside down, was the DC311 instruction from DPW, and they would come take it away in about a month. If you need the identification number for your supercan, please call the Solid Waste Division at 646-1798 or Customer Care at 3-1-1 (646-7000). The new one arrived, and now what to do with the old one? Richmond Department of Public Works trash and recycling services collects and disposes of solid waste for Bon Air, Midlothian, & Richmond City VA. Okay, so I sprang for a brand new one - just $30 for us oldsters. DPW Supercan, Trash Can, Recycling Can Removal Blitz Starts Sat. Payments via check or money order should be made payable to the DC Treasurer and mailed to: Department of Public Works, Attention: SWCD Container Check Processing, 1725 15th Street NE, Washington, DC 20002. docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The broken lid let the rain in, despite my duct-tape efforts, and then the lift bar was pulled out, so the can had to be lifted into the truck by hand. DPW Supercan, Trash Can, Recycling Can Removal Blitz Starts Sat., 05 09 - Free download as Word Doc (.doc /. After years of hard handling by the DPW trash collection folks, my Supercan had to be replaced. ![]()
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