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Finn Schlander, 3, invited the neighborhood garbage-truck driver to his birthday party. Cassidy Sweeting, 4, enlists her mom’s help to deliver granola bars and water bottles to the three trash collectors. Rucker’s daughter Raegan, 3, takes her stuffed animals outside with her to watch the pickup. For Rosanne Sweeting on Grand Bahama island, in the Bahamas, it’s twice a week-Mondays and Thursdays, anytime from 6 to 8:30 a.m.-and for Whitney Schlander in Scottsdale, Arizona, it’s every Tuesday morning at half-past seven.Īt these times, the quiet of the morning is broken by the beep beep beeping of an approaching garbage truck-and broken further when their kids start hollering, begging to be escorted outside to wave or just watch in awe as the truck collects and majestically hauls away the household trash.

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Nemecek said it was a process trying to find the best software that would work with the sanitation department and the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities, which does the trash billing for the city.For Ryan Rucker, a dad in Vacaville, California, the weekly summons comes on Wednesday mornings, usually around seven. The software and its installation cost the city about $400,000 and the city will also pay maintenance costs when needed. The average person generates a little more than four pounds of trash per day and when multiplied by nearly 30,000 customers, the sanitation workers stay busy all year round.

If the sanitation workers happen to drive past a garbage can, the can’s display on the screen will turn red, indicating it has been missed and that workers will need to return to pick it up before heading back to Cheyenne’s transfer station.Ĭheyenne garbage trucks pick up around 250 to 300 tons of trash per day, Nemecek said. “We also offer to come back and pick up trash if a customer has forgotten to put their container out, but there is a charge to do so.” “We’ll probably see our revenue have a slight increase with this way of charging,” Nemecek said. It can also document extra items or bags placed outside of the trash container so customers can be charged accordingly. But if someone forgets to put out their can, they can push a button in their truck, and the can on the screen will turn yellow.”Ĭameras on the truck can photograph the spot where the garbage cans are supposed to be, just in case a customer calls to say his or her home was missed on garbage day. So if they pick it up, the garbage can on the screen will turn green, showing it has been picked up. “So basically, the truck will drive down your street and pick up one of the containers, either trash, recycling or compost.

“This software documents every stop we make,” Nemecek said. This is the first software of its kind being used in Wyoming, as far as Nemecek knew, putting the city on the cutting edge of garbage collection. The software, working with a GPS tracker, provides a directions so trucks can more more accurately follow the city’s six routes and better serve the city’s nearly 30,000 residential and commercial customers.

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The department recently installed new software in 13 of its 27 trucks designed to make drivers more efficient as the city collects an estimated 250 to 300 tons of garbage per day.Īn added bonus? It gives drivers a way to prove that residents who may claim their homes were missed on trash pickup day actually forgot to put out the garbage.Ĭheyenne public works director Vicki Nemecek told Cowboy State Daily on Friday that the new software, Fleetmind, was initially rolled out in December and will be added to more trucks in the coming weeks and months. The Cheyenne Sanitation Department has found a way to take picking up trash into the 21st century. ***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***

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