\u201cTrash fees will spike for many L.A. residents in aftermath of city\u2019s fiscal crisis,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 7)? There should be at least a minimum increase every year. It is irresponsible not to have one.<\/p>\nEvery week, expensive trucks driven by skilled workers come to one\u2019s home and remove all of the trash and recycling. The trucks then travel to a landfill to dispose of it, which I am sure charges a fee, and the recycling goes elsewhere. These trucks have to be serviced, maintained and replaced, and filled with fuel. I imagine the workers are paid a fair wage. How can any city department anywhere, much less Los Angeles, operate on a budget from 2008?<\/p>\n
Obviously, the city has made some very shortsighted decisions during budget times. Citizens should feel lucky to have paid less than $10 per week for 17 years.<\/p>\n
Margaret McVey Thomas, Pasadena<\/p>\n
..<\/p>\n
To the editor<\/b>: Even though I\u2019m a single-family homeowner who will see my trash collection fees increase substantially, I support this measure to balance the city\u2019s books.<\/p>\n
I just wish I could count on the trash collection picking up all three of my bins every time. On average, once a month, one or more of my bins is skipped.<\/p>\n
Eric A. Gordon, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 13, 2025 5 AM PT To the editor: No increase for trash pickup service in 17 years…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[3232,1582,276,2451,7129,152660,30570,152661,2961,19945,224,2444,5337,152663,22223,12578,152662,47524,2452,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-299884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-editor","13":"tag-expensive-truck","14":"tag-increase","15":"tag-l-a-price-increase","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-letter","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-times","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-many-l-a-resident","22":"tag-reader","23":"tag-recycling","24":"tag-skilled-worker","25":"tag-trash-fee","26":"tag-week","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115366830214103056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}