With 9,400 residential customers and 410 commercial customers, one of the biggest tasks undertaken each day by city crews involves solid waste management. This past month alone, over 917 tons of household refuse was collected for an average of 50 tons a day and taken to the Bristol Virginia sanitary landfill for proper disposal. That is equal to nearly 50 pounds of waste from each pickup site each week.
In addition, 3,480 cubic yards of brush and yard waste and 1,640 cubic yards of junk and white goods were collected during the month.
All of this was handled by fully-automated side-loader trucks and rear-loader packers providing the community a high quality service at a bargain price not found in many places.
We sometimes take for granted what we have but this is one service that I routinely hear complimented for all that it provides. So the next time you wheel that cart out for collection, place brush along the curb, or set-out for collection that old washing machine, remember that it will be shortly gone and the crews will be back next week to do it again.
That’s just another example of the advantage of living in Bristol.
