Disposal of solid waste (trash/garbage) is a matter of

community public health and safety
and providing such service

is the responsibilty of the local governing bodies.
How should trash health and safety responsibly be implemented?

We cannot be left in a situation where residents are either “forced
to buy” service from a provider, or have no option but to burn
their trash. The government can levy a tax, but they cannot say that
residents are forbidden to buy a service from an independent provider.

Such a ruling is

• unfriendly to those who currently own, or want to
  start
  
  a waste collection business in our county,
• unfriendly to the
  residents who are counting on the government to follow
  the state-legislated goals to

  “protect the health
  safety, and well-being of its citizens and to protect
  and enhance the quality of its environment” ,

• unfriendly to the environment as trash ends up on the side of the
  road or polluting the air by being burned and leaves us to
  face a new problem on a different day.

Residents in the unincorporated areas of the county who want curb side
collection, for the most part, already purchase it. Those of us using

the collection centers do so because it is our preference.

The county
should (in my opinion) create a special tax district for waste disposal
(it already makes special lighting districts) and tax the residents
for the maintenance of the collection centers.

-gretchen