Pat Walsh, (April 15 edition<\/a>).\u00a0 While it\u2019s great to see Allied Waste encouraging better recycling habits,\u00a0 they do need to change their pickup plan.\u00a0 As per my neighborhood rules, all cans must be kept in our garage.\u00a0 While I can live with now having three containers, I can\u2019t comfortably live with my organic waste receptacle only being picked up every other week.\u00a0 Food and plant material rot over time, odor increases which can encourage rodents to explore. Last thing I need are rats and mice invading my garage!<\/p>\n<\/p>\nIn short, it just makes more sense to reverse the schedule.\u00a0 Pick up the waste receptacle, which mostly has dry products, every other week and the organics once a week.\u00a0 If this is done, more people will buy in to the recycling plan. The other option would be to pick up both the waste and organic cans weekly although that could increase our rates which none of us would appreciate. I\u2019d guess many folks put food in their organic waste can only during the week it\u2019s picked up for reasons mentioned above. Sorry, I just can\u2019t have left over fish in my garage for two weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Today is an appropriate day to send off this e-mail as today is \u201cEarth Day\u201d.\u00a0 We all need to do our share including city of Kent taking another look at their new plan for garbage pickup.\u00a0 I too applaud Kent via Allied Waste for taking this step.\u00a0 Hopefully they will take another look at what is picked up when.\u00a0 Let\u2019s all do our part to help this fragile planet we live on.\u00a0 With a few tweaks here and there we can.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Sharon Van Zandt<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kent<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I agree with the letter written by Pat Walsh, (April 15 edition). While it\u2019s great to see Allied Waste encouraging better recycling habits, they do need to change their pickup plan. As per my neighborhood rules, all cans must be kept in our garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}