Preliminary results of a survey intended to gauge community behaviors and attitudes toward garbage, recycling and composting seem to indicate many Haines residents don’t believe there is a solid waste problem in need of solving.

Haines Borough Assembly member Debra Schnabel, who is conducting the survey, discussed preliminary results at a commerce committee meeting Monday.

Schnabel, who maintains the borough’s current three-company system creates an unnecessarily competitive and “fractured” market, asked survey respondents whether they…