More trash can carnage in San Diego as city trash trucks destroy garbage bins

[@greggreg2263]

My garbage men are complete jerks. My black bin fell into the truck and they just crushed it and kept on going.😢

[@railsandsignals9261]

Most of the time, they're not allowed to retrieve it due to safety concerns. The truck's packer is no joke! Were you able to call in to get a replacement can for free? Hopefully, but if not, then that's a yikes on their part.

[@greggreg2263]

Yes, I got a free replacement in about 24 hours, but they didn’t care that the garbage man squished it on purpose😢

[@Janeonthebrain]

@@greggreg2263dam 24 hours is fast

[@WasteManNic]

it’s a liability to go into the compactor. most places don’t allow drivers to go into the hopper

[@greggreg2263]

@@WasteManNic yes I can understand that all they had to do was reach in and grab it. It wasn’t in the danger zone at all and could be grabbed freely with your hands with no possibility to injury. ❤

[@mikester6192]

The plastic is degrading from the sunlight, heat and time received. They don’t last forever

[@gamingclipz7309]

Ok but they should last a lot longer! Stop making excuses especially when you have 0 knowledge I work for Oneida molded plastics and this shouldn’t happen! So stfo and only comment on stuff u know about

[@TaraConti]

Back to metal cans then!

[@phoenix-rising-86]

Respect your 💩 and it'll last longer, so says the trash man

[@senbonogyaku]

So the truck drivers aren't responsible for them damaging a can that is basically brand new? Give me a break dude those plastic cans can last much much longer than a few years but sure blame everything else but the people directly responsible for the damage

[@phoenix-rising-86]

@@senbonogyaku if I tag a can overweight and you ignore the tag and I break your pos can in the process it 💯 your fault. Sick of lazy Aholes projecting onto me.

[@ronheydon117]

Great job reporter.

[@WasephWastar]

they destroyed 3 of my bins and they don't want to replace them. but they refuse to take our trash because our bins are broken... by them. it's only the lids that are broken, the bins themselves are ok. but no lid = no garbage removal

[@donaldhoward9640]

I was a garbage man for 18 yrs and it is common for a trash totter to some times slip out of the grasp of the grabbing mechanism. Some times because of the weight of the can because it has been loaded with heavy material, some times because the rubber belt on the inside of grabber (which automatically adjusts when grabber closes around container holding it snug in place) doesn't contract enough as grabber closes around container. It will also lose grip on a container which has developed a large crack on the barrel of the container which causes it's sides to collapse when it is grabbed and prevents it from fitting snug in the grabber. As for those drivers that dropped containers into their hoppers and just crushed them and proceeded on their way, I do not get that. When ever I had lost a container in the hopper, I merely hit the button stopping the packer before it could crush the container (there was a camera inside hopper space), shut down the unite, turned the truck off (lock out, tag out) climbed the ladder leading to the access hatch of the hopper, grabbed container by the bottom dumping any remaining waste in it and pushed it out of hopper dropping it back to the ground. Seems any services provided by the city or state which is also provided in the private sector , you find employees like that and over all responses to service issues or replacement of damaged containers, which a private sector waste service (those which are still operating) could not because of other competing waste companies that customers can go to if they are not happy with you. The waste services of the city have no fear of that, are funded by taxes regardless.

[@railsandsignals9261]

Some haulers don't allow drivers to go into the hopper at all for "safety reasons". But yeah, they should replace the container free of charge (which most other haulers do).

[@purgal5250]

Where I live we pay the monthly bill for trash pick up and the bins just come with the service. If the bin gets worn out, they replace it. If you switch services you have to arrange a pick up time for the empty bin. I you don't let them pick up their bin you can then be charged for the bin. That's the only time I've heard of being charged for trash bins.

[@tvviewer4500]

look how careful the government is in dispensing replacement trashcans vs how careful it is paying themselves

[@cecillec2331]

I am from a different California city, and my trash can disappeared. Good thing I had surveillance cameras everywhere, and reviewing the video showed the trash man actually took my trash can with him. I called WM and asked for the driver's name so I could file a police report for "theft". WM refused to give me his name saying he just made a mistake. I wasn't letting him get away with it especially when they start telling us they would start charging us $300 for replacement trash cans. There is so much laziness, corruption and just plain dishonesty everywhere.

[@kierielong975]

That’s like the snow plow trucks. They smash people’s mail boxes.

[@fedos]

Last year a plow overlapped my yard by more than half a foot and dumped all that dirt in my driveway.

[@13Liberty50]

O the humanity of it all

[@myrrhavm]

Not just in SD, everywhere. Then they want to charge for new ones.

[@Tiare789]

Nobody cares about what is right and wrong these days.😔 All about taking and wasting citizen’s money.

[@joefrank627]

See i dont have this problem when your friendly to the person who takes your trash and recycling by saying thank you for taking my trash, my trash can got magically fixed 😅😊.

[@bjdr2001]

It’s almost like anyone of those major cracks are definitely coming from those trucks. The majority of people are just putting garbage bags maybe green stuff into their bins. They should just fess up and say the trash cans were not meant to last we gave you your first one for freereplacements are your responsibility. Maybe they could even provide some sort of tape to fix them rather than needing to replace a giant piece of plastic.

[@SDTrashman]

@bjdr2001, are you an engineer? Cracks in the containers don't always come from the gripers on the automated refuse vehicles. They are produced from plastic, left out in the elements. They become brittle.

[@crisg.5766]

The trash truck recently damaged our garage. The driver slammed the trash so hard into our garage that the trash gripper pierced a hole on our siding and then got the gripper stuck in our garage from there he violently shook the gripper loose creating more damage and then just drove away. Luckily we got it all on video. I immediate contacted the City of San Diego. They put me in touch with the claims department. Its been 4 months since I submitted a claim and we've got nothing. They are giving us the run around our garage is still damaged. We're not considering contacting the media and/or an attorney to get help.

[@tl1533]

You should not complain about the prorated trash can replacement. There is no trash pickup trash service charge.

[@cecillec2331]

The ruling elite has programmed you so well.

[@mitchm.3726]

We have a right to complain when it's the driver's destroying the cans. I'm very careful with my trashcan, and leave it out of harms way. We deserve better service, which is taxpayer paid by the way.

[@digisports22]

It’s not adding up. So every year under ten years, is $7 times the remaining years out of ten. So, if you replace your can after two years, you only pay $14. But past ten years and it’s $70. Should that be reversed, or I’m I overthinking it?

[@KixsMyLocs]

I think it’s the opposite. $7 comes off each year

[@normanli7085]

Yeah it doesn't make sense. Should be what u said

[@roberta.7886]

those trucks have a emergency stop button to stop the packer unit. the driver can climb up and pull it out, lazy operators

[@kenc2257]

Well...I'm satisfied with the current trash/recycling pickup, as it's being funded out of the City's general fund. You can bet some consultant/City financial person is looking at ways to charge homeowners/residents separately for trash pickup.

[@cecillec2331]

You don't pay for trash pickup?!

[@TaraConti]

Can we just go back to guys on the back of the trucks!?!? It’s not like they actually recycle the trash anyway!

[@SDTrashman]

@TaraConti, first, you are correct; trash is not recycled, which is why you have three different containers: trash, recycling, and greenery. And second, automation is much more efficient than a two-man manual collection system.

[@brianajamison5454]

Why would we go back to rear load, I live in a apartment complex which has dumpsters for front load garbage trucks.

[@sophialovestrucks]

The world is gonna be run by robots.

[@midnightrider7648]

I haven't been able to eat a bite all day & I doubt if I'll be able to sleep tonight knowing this horrific tragedy happened here in the United States. Somehow it's Trump's fault.

[@jpkjnn6733]

Boo hoo, my petty narcissistic cult leader has bad things said about him for all the stupid, dishonest, criminal things he does and said. I'm so persecuted. Waaaahhh.

[@evidenceoverbelief5631]

😂😂😂😂😂 get that

[@patriciafettuccine7324]

There ya go, your government people @ work😄

[@jpkjnn6733]

This ain't the gov, Einstein

[@13Liberty50]

The power of Socialism, Communism, never enough of anything, especially your money. They take all of your money then leave you with this.

[@BaalsMistress]

You mean capitalism

[@senbonogyaku]

This is a symptom of capital love. Capitalism is quite literally responsible for corporation's greedy behavior as it is under capitalism that allows and insensitivised this behavior but sure blame something that doesn't exist in a state where the majority of the nations economic power is generated through capitalism

[@refuseindustrymemes]

if ESD decided to NOT by these stupid rapid rail trucks this wouldn't have happened

[@EggzRoller]

Welcome to Socialism.

[@jpkjnn6733]

Socialism how?

[@LaSanWSRFSouth]

I hate crazy amreps

[@samuelg3586]

😂

[@iguanapete3809]

i drove a San Diego City trash truck all through the 70s. We had to pick up the cans and empty then into a hopper on the truck. It broke my back in 79. They have been paying me a Disability Pension for 45 years. These hydraulic arms were available back then but the city decided it was cheaper to break us and retire us.

[@SDTrashman]

@iguanapete3809, I will call bull crap on that. The City of SD went to automated collection around 1988-1989. Obliviously you are misinformed. It is not cheaper to have an injured employee.

[@bigcatauna]

maybe the color has something to do with it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SDTrashman]

@bigcatauna care to elaborate?

[@brianajamison5454]

Racist

[@Dwn2Race]

Democrat Utopia….

[@Brendabad]

tRumps ‘merica!

[@jpkjnn6733]

Yeah, if only we could have a single corporation charging us more and more each year and have their monopoly protected by republican regulation. Ah well we can dream

[@macdaddyalexis]

Lol.

[@SOLDOZER]

This is your biggest worry in life?

[@cecillec2331]

Is it raining money on you? A replacement trashcan in my city costs $300.

[@blackflyingfox3365]

@@cecillec2331 Holy shit! That's a huge chunk out of someone's paycheck.

[@danc8363]

The Karen's love their bins

[@GuyWithTheDogs]

I don't understand your specific kind of stupid, but I do admire your total commitment to it.

[@cecillec2331]

Stupid is as stupid does.@@GuyWithTheDogs

[@leeannramsey6281]

Im far from a Karen

[@ChaelSonnenEatsLebronsWeiner]

wait but theyre the ones that fucked it up. Why should we pay for their garbage truck being garbage 😂