Oneida County Land Fill

Just sign on the dotted line……
The salesman makes his pitch…”Yup, just sign the contract and we’ll take care of all your recycling and garbage, no problemo!”.

You take a look at the nearly two pages of fine, light print before you. Harking back on a million years of evolution, your survival instincts kick in! The ‘little bell’ going off in your head is more the size of the Liberty Bell. To borrow a line from my daughters’ Madeline movie, “Something is not right”.

The suave smile on the salesman really isn’t as soothing as it is irritating as he proffers a pen in your direction. You attempt a stall, “How ‘bout if I look this over, sign it, and then send it in?” Hesitantly, the salesman agrees, drops his card and promises to check back in with you. You exhale with a sense of relief as the door swings shut behind the salesman.

A growing number of businesses in the area are having this experience. A very few waste companies, less than two, are requiring customers to sign contracts locking them into three to five years of garbage service. If you look carefully at the fine, light print you will see that the contract allows the waste company to raise your price for garbage service with little opportunity on your part to protest. If you try to switch garbage service because of cost increases or poor service, other fine print makes you liable for up to three months of charges! And you’re supposed to be the customer. So much for the idea of “Service Industry”.

Now if you ask the salesman why those clauses are in there, the likely response will be, “Well, we’ll never actually use them…ah, it’s just standard contract language… and corporate (like the devil?) makes us do it…ya’ know?!”. If you’re not going to use the clauses, why have ‘em in the first place?!

The vast majority of haulers in the Oneida and Vilas County area do not require customers to sign such contracts. The point of view for these local haulers is, “If you are not happy with their service and/or their price, you should be able to hire somebody else.”

Somebody start hummin’ the National Anthem, because if that’s not Free Market, Service Industry, Private Enterprise, I don’t know what is! So if you happen to find yourself face to face with a contract and pen welding garbage “service” salesperson in the near future, follow your instincts….RUN!!!

STORY ARCHIVES

Been there,…Done that	Delays, delays
Demolition Man	Demolition Man, demolished
Dump tours	Dumps O’er Wisconsin
Haunting Hazardous Waste	Hey Buddy, Got a Landfill?
Historical Composting	How’d you like your asbestos?
If at first, second	If you have a hard time reading this, perhaps you should recycle your glasses!
It’s spring time, do you feel… hazardous?	Just sign on the dotted line……
Mercury My…Oh My	Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be junk men
Oneida County Compost, the compost with guts! And, probably for sale this spring!	Paper Recycling Exceeds 50%!
Perennial Plastics Problems	School’s in
So, are we recycling, or not?!	Spinning Recycling Percentages
The Empire Strikes Garbage!	The Good Stuff
Tis’ a sad, sad day…..Bob was right?!!!	We’re not only still recycling, but it’s easier?!
004 Composting Season Opens!	A composter’s guide to better leaf areas in the City of Rhinelander
Earth Day, thinking globally acting localy	Governor’s Task Force on Waste Materials Recovery and Disposal: Part I
Governor’s Task Force on Waste Materials Recovery and Disposal: Part II Electronics, We’ll all be in the same boat, does anybody know the words to Kumbaya?	If ya’ can’t stand the heat, get out of the compost pile!
Oneida County Solid Waste Department Takes Drugs!	Responsible Manufacturers… the rest is up to us!
The Recycling Inspector Cometh…	Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

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