What, your garbage isn't picked up by robots yet? [1]
An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
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Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
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Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#93This is great but what if, hold on, we paid taxes.
In the socialist hell-hole (/s) I live in, I pay taxes for a fairly comprehensive trash and recycling service run by my local government. The service operates weekly. However, they only take care of trash that fits into their standardised trash bags or containers. They will not pick up anything that is too heavy for their workers to lift, such as a broken TV, or too big for their trucks, such as a mattress. Thus, there are additional private services here that have sprung up to take care of non-standard trash, and they do quite well out of it.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#94This is great but what if, hold on, we paid taxes.
Taxes are extremely high in my area, especially small business nickle and dime taxes. It may shock you to hear my employees spend a minimum of 2 hours every two weeks (to say nothing of the distress of spending time on hold and dealing with unaccountable government agencies) on the phone yelling about non-compliance of pickup and outright lies by the waste management companies about how they do their jobs.
In theory I certainly agree with you. In practice, these agencies and government-backed crony companies have zero accountability, zero recourse, and no customer service.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#95This is great but what if, hold on, we paid taxes.
Many towns in New Hampshire with spread out population do not want to pay for garbage pickup. Everyone brings everything to the dump themselves. These people "self-uber for garbage" as they say. Some rich folks pay companies like Waste Management to do it for them. What's wrong with that model?
> Many towns in New Hampshire with spread out population do not want to pay for garbage pickup. Everyone brings everything to the dump themselves.
Yes, and this is pretty common even in areas where the population isn't particularly spread out.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really is bad government. The city council should make a tender and have the local utility come and collect big items for free. That's how it works in the European city I come from. And the utility taxes are all but high.
> The city council should...have the local utility come and collect big items for free I don't produce lots of big trash. Not sure why I--nor anybody else--should subsidise people who produce lots of big trash.
I think the free service was born out of despair for people consistently leaving big trash on the roadside. While I understand you as I don't produce big trash myself, I guess it's still better to just pay a little more and get rid of the bigger problems having trash on the roadside would bring.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that's why the government puts them in jail. Seems harsh actually.
I assume they give warnings first.
Right, but the punishment for not paying taxes is a lot harsher than seems reasonable for someone who just doesn't pay their garbage-pickup bill. It feels weird for those to be the same thing.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Much better than the previous entrant. These people have their trucks placarded ("1203") and run their people through the training required for fuel truck drivers. You really don't want Uber-level drivers driving fuel trucks.
> You really don't want Uber-level drivers driving fuel trucks. I bet if it were three cents per fill up cheaper, people would choose Uber-level drivers.
Hence, regulation! Fire marshalls have teeth.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what I was thinking. I'm assuming they go above and beyond what the city may offer. if you are a company like whole foods - you probably don't want trash sitting around until a city assigned garbage is ready to pick it up in a week. same with hotels, etc.
They don't already have an arrangement? I've never noticed this problem at a grocery outlet.
> I've never noticed this problem at a grocery outlet
I live down the street from a New York City grocery store. Once a week all their boxes and stale groceries wander out onto the sidewalk from where, at convenient times like 5pm or Midnight a garbage truck blocks traffic while making robot-sex sounds. Apparently, private garbage pick-up was axed when Fairways last went bankrupt.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
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