Trash removed around recycling drop-off sites in Jacksonville, but dumpsters remain full

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Temporarily halting curbside recycling postulation successful Jacksonville is expected to escaped up immoderate workers to ore connected different garbage concerns.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Temporarily halting curbside recycling postulation successful Jacksonville is expected to escaped up immoderate workers to ore connected different garbage concerns.

Tammy Patterson, who lives successful the Paxon area, isn’t truthful definite astir that.

“It’s been 4 weeks. Tomorrow (Wednesday) volition beryllium the 5th week that they missed our pickup,” Patterson said.

Up and down her neighborhood, trash has been sitting for weeks. She said she and her hubby haven been complaining for weeks astir the problem. While News4Jax was talking with Patterson connected Tuesday, crews showed up and started hauling distant the trash.

“It’s amazing. I conjecture the squeaky instrumentality gets the lipid aft all,” Patterson said.

The crews were really responding to those complaints made by Patterson. So her proposal appears to valid: Let the metropolis cognize erstwhile determination is simply a problem.

News4Jax has besides been documenting problems astatine the 15 recycling drop-off points successful the city. Dumpsters person gone days without being emptied. That was the lawsuit again connected Tuesday. But determination was a alteration Tuesday. While the dumpsters were inactive full, metropolis crews had cleared and picked up the trash astir the dumpsters.

Staff successful the mayor’s bureau said it’s up to haulers, which person a metropolis contract, to bare the dumpsters.

There’s nary connection yet connected wherefore that is not happening each nighttime but Sunday.

Trash surrounding the dumpsters astatine the recycling drop-off tract astatine Earl Johnson Memorial Park connected St. Augustine Road was picked up, but the dumpsters were inactive full. (WJXT)