Trash piling up on streets across U.S. due to worker shortages
"You know that they could find the money to do it if they wanted to," she said. "If it was a business that wanted to come in here, they would dump money in to make it happen."
Cities including Atlanta, Nashville, and Louisville are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclable bottles, cans, paper and plastic, yard waste, or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff. The delays are more than an annoyance to residents, creating problems such as clogged storm drains and blocked sidewalks.
A nurse gives Malikai McPherson, 16, a shot of the coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination clinic at Health First Medical Centre in Melbourne, Florida.Nashville City Council member Freddie O’Connell was just as surprised as his constituents when he received notice before Christmas that the city was halting curbside recycling.
"I was just stunned there wasn’t an alternative or a back-up plan," he said. "No hotline for people who are mobility impaired or don’t have reliable access to a car" to carry their recyclables to a central drop-off site. In Nashville, staffing shortages exacerbated a problem that includes not enough working garbage trucks and a contract with a bankrupt private trash collector.
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