Staff writer
STEUBENVILLE — The city’s sanitation department is going back to its old twice-a-year bulk pickup schedule.
The city had tried an on-demand format this year — allowing customers who are current on their water bills to call and schedule their personal bulk pickup on a Friday of their choosing — but, for whatever reason, a lot of them waited until the end of 2020 to take advantage of the service.
Third Ward Councilman Eric Timmons said the open scheduling concept “was a good idea, in theory.”
“But it just overloaded our system, we couldn’t handle it,” he said. “I think it’s time to go back to the bulk pickups. But either way, I think our citizens deserve two pickups a year – if not, you’re going to see garbage accumulate all over the city. I see it now and we still have pickups, so it’s definitely needed.”