Updated Mar 10, 2009 - 8:56 am

Seattle dumps dumpsters

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The Clear Alley program is replacing bins with special prepaid trash bags that are picked up as often as three times a day. A 33-gallon bag costs $5.

The program is run by the CleanScapes company that started a "Dumpster Free Alley" program a decade ago in the Pioneer Square area.

By cleaning out alleys, city officials hope they will be used more by pedestrians and for deliveries and expanded business activity.

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• Captain America wrote...

  Expanded business activity?

  "By cleaning out alleys, city officials hope they will be used more by pedestrians and for deliveries and expanded business activity." - - - Huh? By charging businesses $5 a bag instead of $35 a dumpster and multiplying the number of trips the collection company has to make (thus multiplying the cost of collection) downtown businesses will be expanded? What braindead "expert" with his head up his rectum thought of this inneficient plan?

  March 10, 2009 9:11 am

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• thobert wrote...

  Another Stupid Seattle Idea

  It Cost more and it's less efficient. Very nice. Having run a restaurant for over 10 years, i cannot imagine what kind of nightmare this will be. the building i am in now has 7 dumpsters and they are very full all the time. i can only imagine the sacks of Garbage that will be laying around even if they pick up 3 times a day. There is nothing better than a garbage bag from a food vendor that is leaking all sorts of appetizing goo. I can only assume they will not be picking up the bags at 2 in the morning when most of that garbage goes out. Not to mention the picking threw of the garbage by the homeless as Seattle refuses to enforce any law that will in anyway inconvenience them. We will have another well intentioned, poorly thought out experiment in the great society... $600,000 toilet, anyone?

  March 10, 2009 10:17 am

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• Dont blame me I voted Conservative! wrote...

  Seattle dumps dumpsters

  Oh, boy! Is the rat and seagull population in Seattle ever gonna love this! Not to mention all the bums. The city's Rat problem will increase and with it the deseases they carry and the birds will strew the garbage for blocks in all directions. I wonder if the powers that wanna be in the think tanks thought of ANY of this and the long term consequences? Probibly not!

  March 10, 2009 12:13 pm

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• section 121 wrote...

  Here a bag, there a bag..

  Brilliant – while the city tried to force all the surfs to not use plastic bags for their groceries in order to keep them out of the dump, they are forcing business to switch to using plastic bags for their garbage which goes to the dump! Let’s see….reusable metal containers… no good – thick (i.e. which are really never going to decay), leaky, expensive, breakable bags…OK? Makes perfect sense. Well at least the smell of garbage from broken bags will help mask the smell of all the human waste in the allies. Far more enticing to people to get them to use the allies.

  March 10, 2009 12:33 pm

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• Philcc wrote...

  Did they consider tourism?

  I have to agree with everyone else. But the big question is what about tourism. People are not going to want to visit Seattle if they have trash laid all over the place. And think of the cost. It's not the vendors that are going to have to pay. It's the consumers that in the end will have to fork over the money for those trash bags. How ridiculous! Chalk another one up for the braniac Nichols! I am soooooo happy that I don't live in Seattle and I'm not sure how soon I will want to come downtown and visit.

  March 10, 2009 12:54 pm

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• Wild Bill wrote...

  IDIOTIC

  Bullshyte from The City of Seattle. With more homless than ever, and growing, look forward to 33 gallon trash bags spewed all over, This is more Stupid Seattle (my beloved hometown, becoming disconnected from reality slowly and surely as Fat Cat esoterica and social design takes rot). Look for MORE trash and rats and decay. AND did CleanScapes win a bid, where minority owners were allowed to compete, or were they just given a no-bid contract. Maybe one of the Murrow Wunderking at KIRO 97.3 should make a call about the awarding of the contract. OR, will Dori have to do it?

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