City begins delivery of new waste-collection Garbys
A new era in throwing nonsense out in Cedar Rapids opens Wednesday as crews begin delivery of new residential trash carts.
The first “Garby” carts will be dropped off 8 a.m. Wednesday in the 100 chunk of Miller Avenue SW, said Megan Murphy, spokeswoman for the city’s Solid Wilderness and Recycling Division. The carts will be delivered following the city’s trash collection schedule – at about 1,000 a day it will take about eight days equitable to supply the homes on the Monday collection routes, Murphy said.
It will take until September to deliver all 40,000 Garbys. The see will issue a notice as deliveries to each collection-day neighborhood are completed.
“There’s no need to call,” Murphy said. “It will automatically show up curbside.”
Residents may upon to use the new containers as they receive them, Murphy said.
The switch to city-supplied containers is the first step in a arrange to cut costs by eliminating the city’s two-person collection crews. The Garby is designed to be picked up and dumped by a involuntary truck-mounted arm, allowing a single person to both drive the truck and perform the collection change.





