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 of Bradenton Department of Public works will be extending the schedule of alternate weeks for recycle and yard waste collections through the month of September due to the continuing shortage of CDL drivers.
Yard waste will be collected the weeks of August 30th to September 3rd and September 13th to the 17th.
Recycling will be collected the weeks of September 6th to the 10th and September 20th to the 24th.
Our efforts to hire drivers is continuing and we will review our ability to return to the regular collection schedule on a weekly basis. Any updates will be issued via CodeRed and posted on our website.
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