Residents displeased over trash
Source: By Kathleen Baydala, Clarion Ledger (MS), January 31, 2006
South Jackson resident Brenda Carson, 61, said her husband, on more than one occasion, has chased garbagemen down the street, demanding they come back and pick up their trash. "We practically gift wrap our trash, and it still takes two or three weeks sometimes before they pick it up," Carson said. Thelman Boyd, director of the city's public works department, said the city also is dissatisfied with the quality of garbage removal service and is considering fining its trash and leaf collection contractor for not doing a good job. "We've had reports that garbage trucks missed whole streets," he said. The city's contract with Waste Management of Mississippi allows the city to assess fines for failure to collect solid waste within 24 hours of a complaint, failure to clean up trash spilled by garbage men and other service breaches. Fines range from $25 to $500 per incident.