in power) want it to be a problem. I would advocate for recycling and using
our transfer station as a base for taking in the trash that you aren't
allowed to throw in the roll outs.
First, I would stop the students from the schools from going around and
selling junk candy and other stuff to make money to go on trips. This past
summer, money were raised by donors to bring in a concert. Wrong idea. Get
the money these donors give and put it into a pot as an incentive for the
students to collect recycled bottles. Get the schools to build in the back
a chain link covered area where the students can every morning bring in
recyclables. The student would then be given credit to his class for these
bottles for example. The city could have a truck come around at least 3
times a week so as not to have a large amount piling up in the school
grounds. The students get their money, we the public don't have to purchase
crap from them and the recycling is being taught to these children early on
in their lives. This could even be continued throughout the summer so that
the students or the clubs could get a head start on fund raising. Simply
put no harm just a little thought.
Second, we are told what we can and cannot put into our roll outs. Yet when
we want to go to the transfer station to drop off these items and they do
what charge you again. They want you to clean your yard, yet they will
charge you $10.00 for a load of tree branches. If you happen to have other
items a fee is charged again. Now they even are going to enforce an
ordinance for not covering your trash, they will charge you $50.00. Boy
isn't it like the city wanting to charge for everything. My solution to
this is figure out what the city makes in people taking in their trash,
increase the sanitation fee by lets say $4.00 a month, and let us the ones
paying the fee go to the station and drop off what we have. This way the
people don't let the stuff accumulate until they have a load they think is
large enough to validate the cost when taking it to the station. If people
have stove, washers, dryers, etc. Have a place out in the vast area of the
transfer station for gathering these items and getting rid of them to a
scrap dealer or someone that would move them out of Las Vegas and San Miguel
County. Don't let them stay in our county.
I proposed this sometime back to Solid Waste and was told that they didn't
have the manpower or some other excuses. I think it is time for us to tell
them we don't mind paying as long as we get the service.
This is my take on solid waste and I have more on other issues dealing with
Las Vegas and our great community.
Alex Aragon
Member Committee of the People