The current system of waste management is working well. It is affordable and provides incentives for people to reduce their waste consumption and recycle more. Curbside waste pick-up is a bad idea in Haines because it will attract bears and dogs and create problems that we now don’t have. Illegal dumping used to be just as bad or worse prior to the current system where there is competition and affordable prices.
Mandatory curbside pick-up and mandatory fees for residents who don’t want curbside pick-up is about as bad idea as has come along in a long time. Furthermore, such laws create inequities and could put the greater cost burden on those living in the townsite service area; the area where mandatory pick-up would be required.
The borough assembly should not be proposing laws that are good for only one business in town and bad for the majority of its citizens.
Kathleen Menke