City of Bradenton recently issued the following announcement.
A CDL driver shortage, a problem that has recently plagued the solid waste industry, has forced the City of Bradenton to re-organize its solid waste collection. City officials hope that the necessary changes will be temporary.
Garbage collection, the city’s primary priority, will continue on its normal schedule, but the shortage of drivers has made it difficult to consistently cover both yard waste and recycle collections every week.
The temporary solution is to switch to a collection schedule of every-other-week for yard waste and recycle. The city will collect yard waste one week and recycling the following week and then repeat the cycle. This change allows the Solid Waste Division to consolidate recycle & yard waste drivers into a single collection unit, which will minimize the impact of the current driver shortage.
The city was already focusing on recycle collections this week, so will continue that focus this week and switch to a yard waste collection focus next week. The general schedule in the short-term would then be as follows, using the residents’ normal collection day.
Recycling: Weeks of July 26-30, August 9-13 and August 23-27.
Yard Waste: Weeks of August 2-6, and August 16-20.
Meanwhile, the city will continue to recruit CDL drivers. Based on the success of those efforts, this temporary bi-weekly schedule will be re-evaluated on a weekly basis.
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