Mayor D.C. Reeves announced the two-day pickup schedule for Pensacola residents:
Monday Customers
Monday: Garbage and yard waste
Thursday: Garbage only
Tuesday Customers
Tuesday: Garbage and yard waste
Friday: Garbage only
Wednesday Customers
Wednesday: Garbage only
Friday: Garbage and yard waste
Thursday Customers
Monday: Garbage only
Thursday: Garbage and yard waste
The UWF Haas Center is questioning whether residents would be willing to pay $8-$10 more a month for curbside recycling.
“If you’re willing to even pay just an $8 or $10 more a month, we know that you’re going to be motivated to make sure that you’re more than likely going to be recycling properly,” said the mayor. One of the reasons for dropping curbside recycling was the recycling from city sanitation customers averaged more than 50% contamination.
The mayor said that the recycling cans will be picked the week of Sept. 25. The new schedule starts Oct. 1, and the last curbside recycling picks ups will be the week of Sept. 18.*
* Updates
I hate that we now have to pay more for less services. I’ve recycled for years and am very careful about cleaning items before disposing on them. My recycle can is twice the size of my trash can. I’ve seen the trash truck take my recycle can and visa versa many times. Please rethink this situation.
Friday days are not listed
Typical Pensacola. If it has anything to do with neat and clean you can count this city out.
All the worldwide hype about saving the planet and common sense telling us that recycling helps.
Pensacola… That’s too hard, if we keep recycling, the next thing they’ll want is for us to pick up the tons of litter and cut the grass
What if we only need trash pick up once a week can we get a discount? I really don’t have but one bag a week in my can. What a waste picking up twice a week
I live in Thousand Oaks subdivision and our pickup is only on Friday. So what are our options if any?? We were not listed being that your schedule is only if you have pickup Monday-Thursday, ours is on Friday!!
It’s a shame this area isn’t more recycle proactive. It’s the right thing to do and to teach our children. I think people are just too lazy. Reuse, recycle, reduce.
I would pay more.
Traditionally, ECUA has provided a higher level of sanitation service at a lower cost. Starting October 1, ECUA customers will pay $29.88 a month for sanitation service with customers given the option of a second garbage can or a recycling can. Or they can just have one garbage can if that’s all they want. If recycling can work out in the county then it certainly can work in the city too. ECUA customers will still have yard waste service and scheduled bulk waste service. Starting October 1, Pensacola will charge more – $33.72 a month – for less – minus recycling. The city will likely impose three additional fee increases after the start of the budget year. There will be a 5% CPI increase. Mayor Reeves very cleverly did not include it in the new budget but the budget document describes that it “may” (will) be added after the start of the budget year. As part of what Mayor Reeves calls his “larger salary study,” there will also be a large salary increase for sanitation employees. He told the council so they all do know. We’ll all have to pay for that. The sanitation trucks so very poorly maintained for years are at the end of their service life. The council knows that too. On one day last month, four of five recycling trucks were broken. (Inexplicably, the garbage truck emptied up my neighbor’s recycling can but not her garbage can.) That’s going to be a massive cost to city sanitation customers. Then, there will be two other standard increases starting on October 1, 2024. For Fiscal Year 2025, we might be paying close to $40 a month. The obvious solution is for the city to execute an interlocal agreement with ECUA providing for it to provide the same higher level of sanitation services to city customers at a lower cost than the city charges. As part of the agreement, the city should keep all of its distinctive sanitation cans saving ECUA money and helping to define the city boundary. ECUA might not have much use for the city’s ancient sanitation fleet of vehicles but would likely do a better job maintaining them until new vehicles can be purchased. If Escambia County then also transfers the Perdido Landfill to ECUA, ECUA’s costs would be even lower.
Hello
Can you give the boundaries for the new pick ups? We are Friday pick up but our day isn’t listed on the new schedule. Thanks
When does this go into effect?
I have recycled for years longer than we had cans ! I think it’s a shame that we must compensate for the people that don’t care and put everything in the garbage!
One day a week pick up ! People put their trash in the recycling container because they had no choice . By day six the flies are super bad . They never should have changed it in the first place . Forcing customers to pay for two cans .
In this hurried lifestyle of people…they are not going to recycle the way it needs to be done….most of the younger people do not have the time to do it right….Just my opinion