Garbage

Today is the third pickup for the single-stream curbside pilot recycling program in Holiday Hills, and preliminary numbers for the first two pickups suggest a correlation between the amount of recyclables and the amount of trash people set out. At a Winchester Municipal Utilities Commission meeting Thursday night, WMU General Manager Mike Flynn said at its Aug. 5 recycling pickup, WMU collected 2.26 tons of recyclables, and 1.47 tons at its Aug. 12...

Dear Editor, Since June 1, the county landfills are being operated on a four-day week. This is an inconvenience to the many who bring their own garbage there. When it is a holiday, that person has to let garbage accumulate until there is a day that is open. Home pick-up garbage has raised prices until not everyone can afford it. Gas prices as high as they are, the ordinary individual has to stretch his dollars as far as they will go. On a brighter note, special thanks to Ernie Holman and his helpers for the beautiful fireworks display that we get on the Sunday night before the Fourth of July every year.

Dear Editor, I am writing in regard to Lancaster city garbage pick-up service. First of all, Lancaster is a country hick town with no grocery store and no entertainment for anyone - the list could go on and on. My garbage was not picked up last week due to it not being bagged, per a city employee when I called City Hall. One can had cardboard in it, one can had individual bagged garbage and another can had one big bag of garbage in it. The cans did not have lids, because in the past the garbage people threw garbage lids on the ground and they blew away.

LIBERTY - Customers of Casey County garbage haulers will see a $2 hike in their bills next month after action Monday by the Fiscal Court. The court approved the raise that will up the hauling fees from $10 to $12 per month for people outside the city limits. Three haulers, Leslie Luttrell, Shinnie Luttrell and Henry Lawson and sons, asked the court earlier this month to raise their pay to bring it up to what other counties charge for hauling. The fees had not been changed in more than 15 years when the hauling business began in the county, but fuel costs and dumping fees at the landfill have risen.

You might rightly imagine that a newspaper editor receives all sorts of pitches for coverage, these days primarily by e-mail, and from everywhere imaginable. That's why they invent "spam" filters. So I don't have to sort through all that electronic junk mail, my handy-dandy spam slam deflects close to 200 e-mails every day. The truth is I still have to wade through my spam folder (garbage can) to make sure that nothing ends up there that shouldn't. That happens often enough that I keep a pretty close eye on what is electronically deemed to be garbage.

LIBERTY - The city apparently has become a dumping place for garbage as well as unwanted felines. Mayor Steve Sweeney told City Council on Wednesday that people who do not live in the city have been dumping their household garbage in Dumpsters in parking lots and at businesses around town. "It's costing the city thousands of dollars," said the mayor. He said fees for dumping at the landfill have increased $6,000 during the past five months. "We've got to cut down on the amount we're paying in fees," he said.

You might rightly imagine that a newspaper editor receives all sorts of pitches for coverage, these days primarily by e-mail, and from everywhere imaginable. That's why they invent "spam" filters. So I don't have to sort through all that electronic junk mail, my handy-dandy spam slam deflects close to 200 e-mails every day. The truth is I still have to wade through my spam folder (garbage can) to make sure that nothing ends up there that shouldn't. That happens often enough that I keep a pretty close eye on what is electronically deemed to be garbage.

Like many people, Jay Price was going about the business of cleaning his garbage can. He got the hose, a brush and some bleach and began to spray, scrub and wash his garbage can, which had become a festering home for disease. "We consider ourselves clean people," Price said. "But it had maggots in it. It was nasty. " Once he was done, he poured the remnants out into the curb and that was that. But it wasn't. Months later, the can had to be cleaned again. The maggots were back.

Dear Editor, The common sense truth concerning the account of a Garrard County resident, attempting to unload 15 bags of garbage at a Boyle County Convenience Center, was for her to return home and then return to her local county convenience center one or two days later and get rid of her garbage on a day they were open. Get the local county convenience center's phone number and call before you go. M. Wendell AndersonDanville

Dear Editor: I would like to address the employment of inmates at the Alum Springs convenience center. I and many others have experienced problems when disposing of our household garbage. I do not want an incarcerated person going through my garbage for several reasons, one being I have personal papers I do not want accessed. I also was told by an inmate that I should have brought my husband or boyfriend to help me. I was being told to throw my bags on top of the biggest dumpster there when he was standing on top of the garbage inside the dumpster.

A garbarge truck driver's quick reaction saved a bad situation from becoming worse Tuesday morning. Around 9:15 a.m., the driver of the Rumpke truck noticed smoke billowing from the back of his truck and elected to dump a portion of his load at the intersection of Bellechase Lane and Pinewood Drive, near Edgewood Drive. “He did the smart thing by dumping the part that was smoking,” Nicholasville deputy fire chief Kevin Baker said. “It would have been tough fighting it if it had still be in the truck.” Rumpke spokeswoman Molly Yeager said the driver acted in accordance with the company's regulations.

Jessamine County emergency-response agencies and Lexington Hazmat Team 1 were called out Tuesday around 1 p.m. to the Bellerive Kroger Plaza in response to possible hazardous materials in the back of a Rumpke garbage truck. Officials determined there was no threat after an exhaustive search of the truck and its contents, said Nicholasville Fire Department deputy chief Kevin Baker. The driver of the truck claimed he saw “white puffy smoke” and a odd smell and immediately called his supervisors, said Molly Broadwater, a representative of Rumpke Waste and Recycling Services.

Residents of Danville and Perryville will be able to get rid of unwanted items such as old couches this week. Boyle County Solid Waste Director Donna Fechter said M&M Sanitation, Republic Services, will pick up couches, chairs, benches, tables and any other bulky items that will not fit in a resident's solid waste container on the resident's regularly scheduled pickup day Monday through Friday in Danville and Tuesday in Perryville.   Residents can save time and gas by placing the items at the curb.

“At the beginning of 2010, a landfill contained 1,400 tons of solid waste. The increasing function W models the total amount of solid waste stored at the landfill. Planners estimate that W will satisfy the differential equation (insert equation here) for the next 20 years.” Whew. That question from the 2011 AP calculus test would have had my head spinning. When I merely looked at the numbers, mathematical signs, and letters representing integers, I had an unpleasant flashback to college, when attempting calculus made me change my major.

Spring cleaning in Jessamine County kicked off the week of March 23 through March 31 with the county's 24th annual countywide cleanup. Since that time, crews have been working to collect all the trash residents put out on the curbs, Jessamine County Environmental Services director Mike Cassidy said. “Right now, we're about 70 percent complete, and the last time I checked, we were at 700 tons. We are anticipating it to come in at around 1,400 tons,” Cassidy said. “(Nicholasville)

Nicholasville police responding to suspicious 911 hang-up calls found a 14-month-old toddler surrounded by garbage, narcotics and marijuana roaches. Officer Kevin Grimes said police were investigating after reports of two disconnected calls to emergency dispatch that originated from 204 Edwards Drive on Feb. 16. The officers were greeted at the door by the toddler's mother, Melinda K. Clemmons, 29, and were immediately hit by a “large cloud of smoke” and the stench of marijuana coming from inside the home, the police citations state.

Today is the third pickup for the single-stream curbside pilot recycling program in Holiday Hills, and preliminary numbers for the first two pickups suggest a correlation between the amount of recyclables and the amount of trash people set out. At a Winchester Municipal Utilities Commission meeting Thursday night, WMU General Manager Mike Flynn said at its Aug. 5 recycling pickup, WMU collected 2.26 tons of recyclables, and 1.47 tons at its Aug. 12...

Dear Editor, Since June 1, the county landfills are being operated on a four-day week. This is an inconvenience to the many who bring their own garbage there. When it is a holiday, that person has to let garbage accumulate until there is a day that is open. Home pick-up garbage has raised prices until not everyone can afford it. Gas prices as high as they are, the ordinary individual has to stretch his dollars as far as they will go. On a brighter note, special thanks to Ernie Holman and his helpers for the beautiful fireworks display that we get on the Sunday night before the Fourth of July every year.

Danville code enforcement officials are warning garbage customers they need to make sure the big green and blue containers are off the curb after pickup. City code enforcement officer Tom Broach said most of the issues with cans remaining on the street for several days after garbage and recycling collection have been around more densely populated areas, such as apartment complexes. “We are still getting complaints about the cans being left out on the day of pickup and we are really trying to get it under control as much as possible,” Broach said.

Garbage trucks have continued to roll and recycling began last week, but the city’s new garbage and recycling contract wasn’t finalized until Monday night when the Danville City Commission voted for a final version of the agreement with a couple of new wrinkles. The main issue was whether the city or M&M Sanitation will pay the state-mandated environmental remediation fee, a $1.75 per ton landfill charge that was implemented in 2003. The total amount, around $10,000 annually, had been paid directly by the city.