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San Pedro to Sun Valley.Under the current system, the lack of regulation results in price gouging for some customers and hazardous conditions for workers, critics say.The franchise program will cover trash only from commercial businesses and larger apartment complexes. It doesn’t affect single-family homes and residential buildings of four or fewer units, which will continue to be served by the Bureau of Sanitation.dakota.smith@latimes.comTwitter: @dakotacdsmith... (Los Angeles Times)
The company is investing about $70 million in new equipment and recycling processes including a new trash handling site in Sun Valley, said Dough Corcoran, director for public sector sales.The number of abandoned customers forced to switch haulers before the July 1 franchise agreement requires the transition seems to be small so far, he said.The City Council approved the franchise deal last year, expecting several benefits. Some 144 commercial waste haulers who could collect garbage anywhere in the city meant that garbage trucks from competing companies would roll through alleys and city streets several times a day and week.With a single company assigned to a service area, the thinking was, pickups would be fewer and better coordinated, with less truck pollution. The companies winning the franchises were to pay higher wages, and impose stricter conditions on recycling and waste processing. ... (89.3 KPCC)
