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and Mayor Drew Boyles recused himself
from the vote due to a business conflict)
eventually settled on $15 a month. The City
will cover the remaining cost (an additional
$6.26 per month per unit). The Council has
the option of changing the fee at any given
time and can still go as high as $20 (with
only consumer price index increases allowed
over and above that amount). It can also in
the future decide to lower the fee or even
waive it altogether.
As for three- and four-unit complexes that
are now considered commercial properties,
those owners can choose to contract with
EDCO or another City-licensed hauler. At
the Council’s request, EDCO will offer the
same rates for the same level of automated
services to these properties (per unit) as will
be provided to the single-family homes and
duplexes.
As part of the rollout, EDCO sent out
mailers to residents and held several community
meetings in coordination with City
Public Works staff over the past month. The
outreach campaign will continue as the service
officially kicks off next month. •
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delivery bags or chip/snack bags. Residents
may request up to two additional blue carts.
Green carts will be used to separate green
waste material such as landscape and pruning
waste, nonhazardous wood waste and organics
all mixed together. Green waste includes
grass clippings, flowers, brush, tree trimming,
weeds, palm fronds, leaves, branches, wood
scrap and chips, ice plant (in small quantities),
ivy, floral decorations, Christmas trees (cut in
half), untreated and non-lead-based painted
wood, and food scraps. Residents may ask
for two additional green carts.
Meanwhile those who want to dispose of
their old trash cans can leave them out on
their collection day (after already receiving
the new carts) with a note asking EDCO to
take them away. The old cans must be empty
when left out.
In contrast to the prior five-day collection,
EDCO will pick up Monday through
Thursday. As a result, some residents’ trash
days may change. An online map provides
a breakdown of collection days for each
residential street. Go to https://www.edcodisposal.
com/el-segundo/ for collection dates as
well as other information. The City also has
a FAQ page on the new service at https://
www.edcodisposal.com/assets/001/5601.pdf
Collections won’t take place on New
Year’s Eve, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor
Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. For
those holidays, services will be delayed by
one day. Holidays falling on a Saturday
won’t delay collection for the remainder of
the week. If they fall on a Sunday, there
will be a delay.
On collection day by 7 a.m. the latest,
residents will be asked to set their new carts
out at street level with the wheels against the
curb and if possible out of the way of traffic.
Those whose bins were collected from an
alley can keep them there in the future, with
the instruction to place the carts at least two
feet away from walls or fences as well as
two feet from each other. Carts should also
be at least three feet from any parked cars,
mailboxes, trees or telephone poles. Arrows
on the lids of carts should point toward the
street or alley. Also strongly recommended:
Don’t overfill any of the carts to the point
they can’t be closed properly.
With the automated system, EDCO workers
will not leave their vehicles unless absolutely
necessary Their trucks are outfitted with
robotic flippers and arms specific to each
color cart that pick up and dump the items
at different intervals on collection day.
EDCO’s contract also provides a way for
residents to leave out bulky items that are
too large to fit in a trash cart. Examples include
water heaters, appliances, furniture and
televisions – though not hazardous waste or
construction material. To arrange this, customers
can schedule pick-ups with EDCO up to
four times a year and with up to six items
per pick-up. Other contract base services
include holiday tree collection, abandoned
item collection in public right-of way, up to
15 City-sponsored events annually, outreach
and education, two annual cleanup weeks
for bulky items, and two annual document
shredding events.
In initially looking to charge residents for
solid waste collection, the City pointed to
markedly escalating costs for the new trash
contract exceeding $1 million annually as
the services have become increasingly more
complex over the years. A state-mandated
Proposition 218 process required protest
ballots be mailed out to the residential
property owners giving them a chance to
nix the proposed fee. Those mailers went
out last fall. However, less than half of the
total ballots that the City sent out came back
with a “no” to decline the fee. This gave
the El Segundo City Council the ability to
impose a charge of up to $20 a month for
trash collection. After some discussion, the
group (Councilmember Don Brann dissented
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