For many years the trash collection in the Stevenson Ranch community was picked up on Monday mornings like clockwork. That all changed this year when back in mid-April Waste Management decided, without community input, to switch the trash collection day to Fridays. This switch apparently was necessitated due to the new route specific contract that went into effect in the City of Santa Clarita according to Waste Management officials.
This switch was upsetting too many in the community who were very use to getting rid of their trash after the weekend. Now they were faced with garbage from the weekend sitting in the trash containers all week long and, to add insult to injury, the service became problematic. Residents have been voicing their dissatisfaction about the new trash collection day and the decline in service since the switch over several months ago.
In the past three weeks, there have been a number of conversations between members of the West Ranch Town Council, The Stevenson Ranch Community Association and Waste Management regarding these problems. Kevin Burke, the new territory manager for Waste Management, has been very responsive to the communities concerns and has taken this matter seriously.
At last nights Stevenson Ranch Community Association meeting, Kevin announced that the trash pickup in Stevenson Ranch will now revert back to the original Monday collection. He went on to say that Waste Management was committed to working with the community and that they will be looking at the reallocation of assets in the next week or so in order to bring back the Monday collection day. As soon as they are able to rework the routes a letter will be set out to the entire community notifying residents of the change from the current Friday collection back to Monday trash pickup.