trash collection (San Antonio, Howe, Anton: houses, neighborhoods, live)

[bret1]

I have been informed that trash collection will only be made at the front of my home, that this is per a san antonio city ordinance, my property has access from a city side street, access from city street at rear with both areas having driveways. In addtion homes across from the front of my home do not place their trash in front of their homes and they do receive trash pick up.....My containers are at the rear, within a few feet of city street(s) ...Trash pick up is done along ref streets...Any info on this?

[Bo]

Do you have city-provided bins for trash AND recycling or do you provide your own trash can? The answer to your question may depend on the answer to that question.

[bret1]

city provides containers

[catriona]

When we received our city provided containers, the note attached to it said that we were to place the containers back where they were originally left on collection days. Sounds like if they left the containers in front of your house, that's where you place them for collection.

[Bo]

The driver of the automated truck for those blue and brown bins never leaves the cab, which is why those bins have to be picked up against the curb on a wide street. A street or alley behind the house probably isn't wide enough for the truck to swing its robot arm around to pick up the can safely.

[ged_782]

The City of San Antonio recently purchased some new recycling and garbage trucks that can be used for the automated pick up in alleys. However, those routes are limited to areas recently converted to automated service that previously had manual pick up in the alley. Most of the neighborhoods that had manual pick up in the alleys were not converted to automated pick up until the final (this) year of implementation. The automated alley pick up will not be made retroactive in areas that already had automated street side pick up.

As for pick up on a side street, I don't know why they wouldn't do it there, unless those streets don't have any residences fronting on them. In that case, the trucks might not cover those streets. In my area, I notice a lot of people in corner houses put their containers out on the side street, especially if their driveway/garage is on that side. But then, most of those streets have residences fronting on them at somewhere along the way, so the trucks have to pick up on those streets, anyway.

[bret1]

corner homes in my area do place their bins on the side street as you describe...

[bret1]

same note was also in place, however, it was a note, some corner homes with side streets get collected. bins were/are delivered to property addresses, dropped off at front of homes, but from a prev answer, corner homes with side streets do get service placing their bins other than in front of their home.......