[GreenYes] Re: Intermittent Services - Waste collection - charges for

["McLaughlin, Anne" <amclaughlin@no.address>]

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In Portland, OR, we require that our residential haulers give a vacation credit to customers who stop service for a period of two consecutive weeks or longer. 

 

We also require that haulers offer on-call service, where residential customers get no collection of waste (or recyclables or yard debris) except when they call in for service.  They cannot get on-call service more frequently than once in five weeks.  Our rates for all residential service levels are posted at http://www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?c=41476&  Our Administrative Rules for Residential service are posted at: http://www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?c=41472

 

Anne McL

Anne McLaughlin, City of Portland, Office of Sustainable Development, Solid Waste & Recycling Program
A better future.  A better now.

721 NW 9th Ave, Rm. 350, Portland OR 97209-3447
mailto:amclaughlin@no.address
Phone 503-823-7061  Fax 503-823-4562 
Usual work schedule:  Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Our office is near Tri-Met Lines 9, 17 and 77, and the Portland Streetcar line.  Get schedule info at http://go.tri-met.org/cgi-bin/plantrip.cgi and http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/publicMap.shtml?a=portsc.
Visit our website at http://www.sustainableportland.org

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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Barry [mailto:craig@no.address]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:53 PM
To: greenyes@no.address
Cc: Dan Goldstein
Subject: [GreenYes] Intermittent Services

Are there any recycling or solid waste systems out there that only charge for when bins are actually picked up?  Meaning that if the resident is out on vacation for a month than they don't get charged and then could restart their service with, say, a call.

 

I'm under the assumption that recycling and garbage services generally require consistent subscription for services.

 

TIA, Craig

 

Craig Barry

Executive Director

craig@no.address

 

Environmental Resource Center

471 North Washington Ave

PO Box 819, Ketchum, Idaho 83340

 

208.726.4333 w  208.726.1531 f

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www.ercsv.org

 

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