Just dropped off a couple of weeks of garbage plus a bag of extra garbage caused by house repair at the Republic Services dropoff point.

They're very quick, very polite.

They don't even seem to be bothering to check whether you're a customer - I didn't give them any information, nor did they ask for any. They really want you in and out of there. The queue was nonexistent.

Just as I got there, I saw a large pickup truck leaving with a whole _bunch_ of empty trashcans.

Interesting.

#seattle #KingCounty #RepublicServices #OpportunityKnocks #JustSaying

Workers are on strike against Republic Services - the waste disposal company - and there's no trash pickup in a whole bunch of areas.

That strike includes North King County and south Snohomish County, which is to say, hi.

Republic Services reps are doing a trash / recycling / etc dropoff location not far from me.

Does anyone know if the strikers have issued a statement opposing the use of those dropoffs? Do they have a position?

(It would be much easier and cheaper than trying to haul stuff to the closest transfer station, so I do actually care.)

eta: see my reply with what I've found, such as it is

#seattle #strike #RepublicServices #trash #recycling #YardWaste #compost

The #corporate #lobbyist who will run the #Trump White House

by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby
Jan 13, 2025

"Two days after he won the election, Trump announced his first selection for his White House staff. He picked corporate lobbyist #SusieWiles to be White House Chief of Staff.

"In 2011, Wiles joined the #BallardPartners, a Florida lobbying firm founded by Republican operative Brian Ballard. In 2015, according to a report in the New York Times, Trump asked Ballard who could help him win the state. Ballard recommended Wiles. After Trump won the 2016 election, Wiles decided to help Ballard 'set up a Washington office rather than join the new administration.' Prior to Trump winning the White House, Ballard Partners had no federal clients.

"It was a lucrative decision, with Ballard Partners raking in $70 million in lobbying fees during the first Trump presidency. Wiles personally represented numerous corporate clients for millions in fees, including #SwisherSweets, a #tobacco company that markets candy-flavored cigars, #RepublicServices, a waste management company seeking to avoid a federal requirement to remove #radioactive material from a dump in the #SaintLouis suburbs, and the #ConsumerEnergyAlliance, a front group for the #FossilFuel industry."

https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-lobbyist-who-will-run
#USPol #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #WestLakeLandfill #BigOilAndGas #RadioactiveWaste

Grand Prismatic - Oil on Asphalt

Yesterday the recycling truck left a series of oil splotches on the pavement. This one was about 18 inches (45 cm) across and reminded me a lot of the Grand Prismatic spring in Yellowstone.

A photo of the real Grand Prismatic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophile#/media/File:Aerial_image_of_Grand_Prismatic_Spring_(view_from_the_south).jpg

#RepublicServices #OilLeak #Pollution #WalnutCreek