Carson Rescinds Designation of Trash Hauler After Complaints
After a formal complaint by a competing trash collection company, the city of Carson rescinded a June 5 vote designating Western Waste Industries as the city’s sole hauler of commercial and industrial waste.
The June action also specified that Western Waste, which already has a city franchise to collect residential waste, would provide a recycling program for residents at no cost.
Browning-Ferris Industries and smaller garbage haulers complained later that the city had failed to notify them properly of the council’s intention to vote on a franchise for industrial and commercial waste.
In the action Tuesday, the council voted to hold a public hearing Aug. 21 to consider proposals from other trash companies as well as Western Waste. The council specified that the proposals must address residential recycling and commercial and industrial waste collection.
City officials estimate that the franchise to collect commercial and industrial waste collection is worth about $5 million a year in gross revenues.
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