The Trash Bill Blues
Have you ever had to call your trash company about the price for service? Were you expecting one price when you set up service, but when you looked at the bill that arrived in the mail, you sat wide-eyed and confused as you tried to make sense of the litany of different fees they had imposed? Have you seen your trash costs go up inch-by-inch, and eventually come to a breaking point over how expensive service had become? If waste and recycling bills have caused you undue angst, you are not alone. It is common practice throughout the waste industry for haulers to pad their commercial account invoices with all kinds of fees and unexpected charges. Some of these charges are for late-night pictures taken of a bag next to your dumpster, complete with fuel fees on top of the picture fee, as if the garbage-truck driver's camera burns a gallon of diesel every time they take a picture. Delivery fees, removal fees, administrative fees, environmental fees, dumpster refreshment fees - these ...