More Americans are home and it ultimately results in more residential waste and a higher cost for haulers.
Devina Rankin from Waste Management talked about charging cities and towns more to pick up their trash and recyclables as a result of this.
“We need to have conversations about the level of service we are required to provide because it is different than what we signed up for,” the Waste Management Inc. finance chief said. The weight of residential waste has increased 15-25 percent since the beginning of widespread lockdown orders in the U.S., she said.
