{"id":859488,"date":"2026-06-11T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/859488\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:44:17","slug":"we-didnt-know-anything-about-it-la-center-residents-left-without-bins-amid-trash-contract-change-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/859488\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We didn’t know anything about it’ \u2014 La Center residents left without bins amid trash contract change | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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La Center’s contract with Republic Services ended June 1 and the new service provider has yet not distributed new trash cans for the city.<\/p>\n

Harper Spaulding<\/a><\/p>\n

LA CENTER, Ky. \u2014 For some residents of Ballard County, trash day didn’t mean crews picking up their waste but instead taking their trash bins.<\/p>\n

After the city of La Center changed their trash contract, trash pick-up for many residents has halted and their old bins have been carried away. The city\u2019s attorney, Stacey Blankenship, said in a statement that the new contractor, D&D Disposal, is not expected to start pick-ups until at least mid-June.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City of LaCenter\u2019s trash contract with Republic Services expired on June 1st. The City awarded a new contract to D&D Disposal,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHowever, the contract with D&D does not begin until July 1st. The City has requested D&D to start earlier than July 1st but D&D will not have a sufficient number of trash cans to begin pick-up until after June 14th.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the statement, the city of La Center put out two large dumpsters downtown for residents to drop off trash in the interim. If residents can’t drop off the trash themselves, they can call city hall and an employee will pick it up for them. Residents won’t be charged for trash pick-up for the month of June.<\/p>\n

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Two dumpsters were set up on 150 3rd Street until services resume.<\/p>\n

Harper Spaulding<\/a><\/p>\n

News\u00a0of the contract expiration broke on the LaCenter Informational Page after a post from La Center City Clerk Barbara Nutt. According to the post, Republic began picking up trashcans without notifying the city, though they were within their right to do so. Though the city was preparing to switch out cans this month, the post said they were surprised by bins’ removal.<\/p>\n

La Center resident Eddy Oliver went to city hall to ask about the trash situation, as he said trash company workers took his can away Wednesday morning. He said he believes that city officials needed to be more open about the switch and when residents can expect their trash to be picked up again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn’t know anything about it,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cI asked the guy picking cans up, and he said that they went with another company. We didn’t know anything about it. Nobody tells anybody anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New trash cans are not expected to be dropped off until after June 14.<\/p>\n

Harper Spaulding<\/a><\/p>\n

Hubert Harned, another resident of La Center, took his trash to the dumpster set up by the city, though he said his trash can had not yet been taken. Like Oliver, he said the city could have been more transparent about the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody said they put it on Facebook. We have a lot of people in this town that (do) not get on Facebook,\u201d Harned said. \u201cThey did not put nothing in the people that live in the city, in the mailboxes, and that was not done, so it’s a poor arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Center’s contract with Republic Services ended June 1 and the new service provider has yet not distributed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":859489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[350642,350643,1582,276,350646,51648,350645,56758,350644,357,2961,350637,350641,224,5337,43480,350639,27029,350640,350638,8933],"class_list":["post-859488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ballard-county","tag-barbara-nutt","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dd-disposal","tag-dumpster","tag-eddy-oliver","tag-garbage","tag-hubert-harned","tag-kentucky","tag-la","tag-la-center","tag-lacenter","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-republic-services","tag-stacey-blankenship","tag-trash","tag-trash-contract","tag-trash-pickup-services","tag-waste-management"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116730597941766250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859488","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=859488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}