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BATON ROUGE – Amid Tuesday's closures of East Baton Rouge Parish schools and government offices as residents cleaned up flooded homes, it's likely no surprise that certain aspects of routine governmental services also faced challenges due to Monday night's storm. According to local officials, one critical service that experienced collection issues on Monday and Tuesday was the agency that oversees the collection of solid waste throughout the parish, Republic Services. In a Tuesday evening news release, officials with the EBR Mayor's office said Republic Services trucks were not able to co...

Lawton residential trash collection moving to once-a-week schedule Lawton residential trash collection moving to once-a-week schedule By Tiffany Bechtel | January 27, 2021 at 5:27 PM CST - Updated January 27 at 10:32 PM LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Lawton will be moving to a once-a-week residential trash collection schedule beginning April 5, 2021. Residents will also have a once-a-month bulk waste pickup, which allows for residents to set out four cubic yards of eligible bulk waste to be collected. City officials say this plan is better for the environment and will hopefully create cleaner nei...

A key reason for the changes to Columbia’s residential trash collection system is equity for customers. That was part of the message Steve Hunt, Solid Waste manager for the city of Columbia Utilities, discussed in a recent meeting with Boone County Muleskinners. “Customers that put out one bag of trash or two bags of trash each week pay the same amount as their neighbor down the street who may put out 10 bags of trash,” Hunt said. “I’ve heard from several customers over the years that didn’t think that was a fair or equitable method for collection.” City Cou...