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Undercover video shows city dumping recyclable trash carts: “We take them to the dump” says Denver worker

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BY BRIAN MAASS UPDATED ON: JUNE 30, 2023 / 4:11 PM / CBS COLORADO When the City of Denver began charging residents for trash collection in January, roughly 30,000 people traded in their larger plastic trash carts for smaller ones to save money on their monthly trash bills. Smaller carts incur smaller monthly fees, larger carts cost more. But a CBS News Colorado investigation has found that at least 3,000 of … Continue reading →

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Congress Park Trash Collection Town Hall

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Announced in CM Chris Hinds “Perfect 10” We continue to hear from Congress Park residents about the change in trash collection from the alley to the street. The change was implemented a year ago, and we continue to forward every email and phone call we receive over to DOTI (Department of Transportation Infrastructure), the organization that administers trash collection in our city. We want to be sure DOTI hears directly … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With Trash:Congress Park

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By Brian Maass June 16, 2021 at 12:35 pm  Channel 4 CBS Denver DENVER (CBS4)– Some 2,500 residents of Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood recently received notification from the City of Denver that their trash would no longer be picked up in the alley but would have to be wheeled down to the street in front of their homes. Some have made it clear they believe the change stinks. “It doesn’t … Continue reading →

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CONGRESS PARK TO CONVERT TO CITY BARREL TRASH COLLECTION

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Say goodby to your privately owned barrels and dumpsters.  

In correspondence with Charlotte Pittman, Denver Solid  Waste, tentative plans for conversion to city owned barrel trash collection shouild start  in July 2017, with educational outreach beginning in April 2017. We have been contacted by residents regarding concerns about the elderly trying to navigate the new carts down many stairs to the curb.     At this point it looks like if pickup is in the alley it will continue to be in the alley.  

 

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Trash Collection Services to Change in Select Neighborhoods

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In 2014, Denver Public Works will begin the first phase of a plan to move the City of Denver to automated cart trash collection. In 2010, the City outlined strategies to improve waste services in its ‘Master Plan for Managing Solid Waste in the Mile High City’. The plan called for a number of service improvements designed to make waste collection more efficient and to reduce waste disposal by providing … Continue reading →