Toronto’s private garbage collectors receive more complaints than city staff

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Toronto’s private garbage collectors receive more complaints than city staff

TORONTO – Toronto’s private garbage collector racked up significantly more complaints during the first three months of 2014 than city-employed staff.

The city collects so-called “service requests,” which include a missed collection or complaint about the operator.

The private contractor Green For Life picks up garbage for Toronto districts one and two. Those two districts received far more service requests during the first quarter of 2014.

Average service requests per day between January 1 and March 31, 2014:

District 1: 25.8 per day
District 2: 29.3 per day
District 3: 17.4 per day
District 4: 14.2 per day
Green For Life did however stay within guidelines of less than one service request per 1,000 pass-bys.

Mayor Rob Ford contracted out garbage collection west of Yonge St. and promised to contract out garbage collection east of Yonge St. by 2015.

City staff estimate contracting out garbage collection west of Yonge St. has saved approximately $12 million so far.

Toronto’s private garbage collectors receive more complaints than city staff - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
 
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How can you complain about garbage pick up. Other than being missed completely, anything else is whining.

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Don't you mean recyclable assets?
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They do garbage too. They were formerly 'Waste Management' here in Ontario when they bought BFI Great Lakes. They have their roots in Jersey. Fuget about it.
 
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Shyte service that saves every Torontonian less than $5 a year.

Totally worth it.
 
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mentalfloss said:
Shyte service that saves every Torontonian less than $5 a year.

Totally worth it.
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Yeah, what's another five bucks for garbage. Or two bucks for a criminal act. Or maybe three bucks to go to Asia and see how they pick up their garbage. Or what about a bunch of multicultural hot dog carts that drive vendors out of business. You know how to remedy this? Put a toll on the DVP and make homelessness illegal. LOL What a bubble you live in.
 
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mentalfloss said:
Shyte service that saves every Torontonian less than $5 a year.

Totally worth it.
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Well 12 mill here, 30 mill there, another few 10 and 20 and maybe we are talking real money.
12 Mil is a substantial amount of money.
TO has high debt and need roads and transit.
 
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You get what you pay for. Want decent service? Pay for it. Want ****ty service? Hire the lowest bidder.
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no you don't get what you pay for

people working in the public sector who have never worked anywhere else have no idea how good they have it

if they had stfu and done their job and given value for their money they would still be employeed
 
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no you don't get what you pay for

people working in the public sector who have never worked anywhere else have no idea how good they have it

if they had stfu and done their job and given value for their money they would still be employeed
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What beautiful inspiration for our democracy. STFU and do your job. People living in the afterglow of the 20th century labour movement have no idea how good they have it. If I told you to STFU and do your job a hundred years ago, it would sound a hell of a lot more threatening. So sure, let's hand our government services over to the lowest-bidding employer that will squeeze his workers and public the most. That's how we got the middle class luxury we have now: just shutting up and doing the job.
 
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Well 12 mill here, 30 mill there, another few 10 and 20 and maybe we are talking real money.
12 Mil is a substantial amount of money.
TO has high debt and need roads and transit.
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It really is no big deal.
 
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What beautiful inspiration for our democracy. STFU and do your job. People living in the afterglow of the 20th century labour movement have no idea how good they have it. If I told you to STFU and do your job a hundred years ago, it would sound a hell of a lot more threatening. So sure, let's hand our government services over to the lowest-bidding employer that will squeeze his workers and public the most. That's how we got the middle class luxury we have now: just shutting up and doing the job.
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Obviously you don't work public sector nor have a clue how it works. I do.

The accountability is zero even if you are the fuk up from hell. You just keep drawing that money in while everyone around you has to compensate for your inability to do your job because you are so protected that they can't touch you.

Do you want to understand where YOUR tax dollars are going or do you just want to b*tch about big brother...have at 'er woman...I get paid regardless.

Believe it or not, some of us public sector workers actually do the job and more than asked for...ya know, like the real world. And the rest just coast along. It's sickening. And the sense of entitlement is horrifying.
 
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Obviously you don't work public sector nor have a clue how it works. I do.

The accountability is zero even if you are the fuk up from hell. You just keep drawing that money in while everyone around you has to compensate for your inability to do your job because you are so protected that they can't touch you.

Do you want to understand where YOUR tax dollars are going or do you just want to b*tch about big brother...have at 'er woman...I get paid regardless.

Believe it or not, some of us public sector workers actually do the job and more than asked for...ya know, like the real world. And the rest just coast along. It's sickening. And the sense of entitlement is horrifying.
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This is the usual hyperbole and exaggeration that fuels the lopsided ideologies we have today.
 
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