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Gone With The Wind: ECUA’s Trash Trucks Spread Message
March 15, 2010
ECUA’s sanitation trucks are spreading a new message with a new look about not spreading litter with the “Bag Your Bags” campaign.
The campaign encourages ECUA customers to always place recyclables and garbage securely inside plastic trash bags, ensuring that the materials stay in the intended container and transfer properly to the sanitation trucks. The idea, according to ECUA, is to keep the contents of trash containers from becoming litter.
“We have 40 sanitation trucks that will cover all of Escambia County with the exception of the City of Pensacola, and the Town of Century,” Randy Rudd, ECUA director of sanitation, said. “We think this is a cost effective means of getting the word out to customers on the importance of bagging garbage and recyclables to help prevent litter.”
Pictured above and below: The “Gone With the Wind” campaign featured on an ECUA sanitation truck. Submitted photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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14 Responses to “Gone With The Wind: ECUA’s Trash Trucks Spread Message”
as we consider meeting trash trucks and seeing papers and plastics fly off into the wind…..
David whose brother says the plastic bag is the state bird of Iraq
The ECUA in this area is the worst. They spread more than anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody has to keep the clean and green folks in business picking up litter, might as well be the ECUA trucks. Kind of ironic that the bigest litterbugs in the county are the garbage trucks.
They might consider closing the doors when driving down the road. Oh they aren’t responsible for that huh.
Its not just the recycle trucks. In our area, the regular trucks seem to pick up the trash and spread it along the roadway. I know that folks are supposed to bag all the trash, but there are lots of folks who, obvoiusly, do not care about trash along the roadway. When they drive along the road, they use the oportunity to get rid of the trash in their vehicle. These folks are not going to go to the trouble to bag their trash. We need another solution.
disgusting and yucky Bob.
One mans disgusting is another man compost.
Another problem we have with the trucks is the effluent coming out of the truck when the garbage is squeezed. That is the most filthy maggot laden stinking mess one could imagine. I have on occasion had to haul dirt and spread over the stinch so we could stay home.
more cost for bags to bag , will it ever end? what next?
Using grocery or other shopping bags to “bag your bags” is perfectly fine, and should not cost anything more. This is particularly important for small, lightweight objects disposed of in your garbage AND recycling containers.
Also, I will forward the information regarding the speeding issue to our Sanitation Director. We’ll definitely look into it.
I agree that there has been so much more litter on the highway since recycling started. We really don’t need more trash on the roads. Bagging it seems to be a good solution. Now if the ECUA would put a stop on the speeding it would also help. A recycling truck went by on our road -hwy 99 s- last week doing at least 65 mph and didn’t even stop to empty our can. They had to send someone the next day to get it. To me, that is a real waste of fuel, time, and money. THIS COULD BE CORRECTED.
more cost for bags to bag , will it ever end? what next?
ECUA says to bag recyclables in bags (like stacks of a paper) to keep them from blowing away. They remove the bags as they recyclables are sorted a the dump.
In our family, we try to place loose papers inside of boxes that are being recycled — like an empty laundry detergent box, cereal box, shipping box, etc.
What to do?
We were told not to put recyclables in plastic bags by ECUA. I guess this has changed
Never had trash at this end of the woods until we had recycle truck. I have picked up at least a pocket full of our niegbors information on dog walks. I bring it home and cut it up again as some of it has home address name and even account numbers on some bills that have been paid.
I hope people will listen and bag their loose papers