NJ Towns Hope To Save On Trash Pickup Fees By Joining Forces
(CBS) - Three South Jersey municipalities have thrown out the past, in terms of trash collection, by making common cause on a garbage contract.
Residential trash removal is a huge budget item, often the biggest, so when Cherry Hill and Gloucester Township officials found that their individual private refuse contracts were up for renewal at the same time, they said, why not join forces? Cherry Hill schools and the fire department, as well as Merchantville Borough joined in.
Cherry Hill mayor Bernie Platt says this is the shape of things to come:
"I would hope that once the smaller towns see what we're doing that, in the future they will band together and do the same thing we're doing to insure that they get a lower price for their trash pickup, that they save their township money."
The saving is as-yet unknown because the trash hauling bids aren't in.
Reported by John Ostapkovich, KYW Newsradio
