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Eliminate the Excess Truck Traffic, Safety Hazards and Overall Wastefulness of the Current System

Centralize collection with city-managed option, phased in over a short time. The inefficiencies, lack of educational focus, excess truck traffic and pollution, and lack of emphasis on recycling and waste minimization in Lakewood is appalling. I served on the Solid Waste Commission for many years and am expert in this area, and know of no other city of this size along the Front Range that maintains such an antiquated system. We need a centralized system to among other things use volume sizing cost practices to allow folks to see the economic and environmental benefits of recycling and composting. Education needs to be a key component of this new system. I look forward to adding much more detail on these ideas going forward.

No need for improvement. It is fine the way it is.

Offer a Recycling and Compost Only Option

Some households have reduced waste and do not need trash service. None of the current providers servicing Lakewood offer recycling and compost only without trash. If Lakewood goes with a single hauler please ensure that a recycling and compost only option is available so that families with a reduced trash footprint are not penalized for being environmentally responsible.

Trash collection

As much as Lakewood could and in the neighborhoods where it would work, my idea is to have single trash haulers for areas of the city so that there are not trash collection trucks going in and out of neighborhoods constantly. I believe that there are 11 companies operating in Lakewood. Could Lakewood be divided up into its Wards and announce a year ahead that it will begin setting up trash collection as a city service and contract for the service through these companies that are already operating here. I know the difficulty will be with homeowners boo will refuse to leave companies they are happy with, but I this would be a great Improvement for the City of Lakewood for the future.

City helps with organization and bidding for those residents who want a single waste hauler; others residents continue as they wish.

Hybrid System