- Case Date:
- 6/26/2020
I reported that our trash was not picked up on Thursday as it should have been. I received a message from Rhea Carter at noon, saying "We picked up today." I just checked my waste cart. The cart has not been moved and the trash bag is still in it.
Trash
524 E University ST
- Case Date:
- 7/21/2020
My trash bin disappeared after Monday (7/20). I came at noon at home and only the recycling bin was there.
Trash
3801 S Woods Edge BND
- Case Date:
- 7/23/2020
Trash has not yet been picked up on Woods Edge Bend and the south end of Sherwood Oaks. Just reporting to make sure someone was aware that is section of Bloomington was missed.
Blocked Sidewalk
600 W Howe ST
- Case Date:
- 7/23/2020
There is a desk sitting on the sidewalk in front of this house, it's been there for months.
Website & Web Services Feedback
600 E Wellington CT
- Case Date:
- 8/3/2020
Trash collectors are failing to completely empty the containers. Two weeks in a row.
- Case Date:
- 8/5/2020
Bloomington Sanitation Department,
At 3 AM of Wednesday, August 8, 2020 on the morning of trash pickup day at 1412 S. Winfield Rd., 47401, my wife was up watching a recorded news program when a crash was heard from the bottom of our driveway where the cans awaited pickup. The bang was followed by a loud dragging sound. She walked to the bottom of the drive and found the landscaping can in the recycling can were gone.
She woke me and we searched for the cans until we found them three doors south on the Boulevard of the Southwest corner of the Moores Pike roundabout.
At first I thought at 3 AM, it must've been a drunk. However, the more I thought about it, the more unlikely I thought it would be that a drunk would be able to retain the cans for 50 yards.
Retaining the cans brings me to the question which I thought worth sharing with the city. I cannot think of any way to carry the cans that far without damaging one's vehicle other than the way the city does it – hooking a lifter up under the bar built-into the can.
If a prankster is trying to develop a "trick-or-treat… Throw your garbage in the streets" system, the potential chaos it could create for the city sanitation system seems to me to be huge and I would recommend that the city proactively try to answer the following questions.
1.) Have any of the lifting mechanisms used by the city trucks ever disappeared?
2.) Since this system is presumably used throughout the country, can such a lifter be bought online?
3.) Are there any YouTube videos about how to make a lifter that someone could have been testing on Winfield Road?
4.) Has the company from which the city purchased the cans and lifters had experience with cans being fiddled with when they are sitting ducks beside the road the night before garbage pickup? If so, what did these other municipalities do about it?
I got my cans and my trash back in time to leave it out for pickup, but the next victim might not be so lucky.
Thanks for your attention,
Eric Mjolsnes
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2020
The trash/recycling crew left most all cans thrown off the sidewalk, into the road on their sides today. This is not normally the case, and it was absolutely NOT weather related. The trucks woke me up three times today. And then I find my trash can only half emptied, with one bag still in it. Either the trucks are malfunctioning, or someone was in a bit of a hurry to get done with the route.
Recycling
105 E Sunny Slopes DR
- Case Date:
- 8/28/2020
Trash was picked up yesterday, our day, but the recycling bin is still on the street not collected. No notice left if there is some kind of problem.
Yard Waste
1018 S Ballantine RD
- Case Date:
- 9/2/2020
I put an approved yard waste bag with grass clippings (only about half full) on the curb for pickup on Monday, but it was not picked up. I have no idea why it wasn't taken. Now the bag is wet, full of decomposing clippings and will be a total mess in two weeks. Can it be picked up, please?
Recycling
125 E Sunny Slopes DR
- Case Date:
- 9/8/2020
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Our recycling bin was not collected on Thursday, August 27, per the regular schedule (trash was collected that day). I sent the problem note on Friday the 28th. On September 8th I received a message that "we took care of the problem." That is either incorrect, because I had to wait a week to have a full recycling bin collected, or it is correct that the reason why we were skipped was figured out (not likely-as it probably was just a momentary oversight). All that was needed was for a truck to be diverted for 10 minutes from another route to collect our forgotten bin. Strangely handled...