Oct. 13, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: No enhance for trash pickup service in 17 years (“Trash fees will spike for many L.A. residents in aftermath of city’s fiscal crisis,” Oct. 7)? There must be not less than a minimal enhance yearly. It’s irresponsible to not have one.
Each week, costly vans pushed by expert employees come to at least one’s residence and take away all the trash and recycling. The vans then journey to a landfill to get rid of it, which I’m certain fees a price, and the recycling goes elsewhere. These vans need to be serviced, maintained and changed, and crammed with gasoline. I think about the employees are paid a good wage. How can any metropolis division wherever, a lot much less Los Angeles, function on a funds from 2008?
Clearly, town has made some very shortsighted choices throughout funds occasions. Residents ought to really feel fortunate to have paid lower than $10 per week for 17 years.
Margaret McVey Thomas, Pasadena
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To the editor: Regardless that I’m a single-family house owner who will see my trash assortment charges enhance considerably, I assist this measure to stability town’s books.
I simply want I may depend on the trash assortment choosing up all three of my bins each time. On common, as soon as a month, a number of of my bins is skipped.
Eric A. Gordon, Los Angeles
