New Omaha trash carts coming soon

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert and officials from FCC Environmental, the company which will handle the city's garbage and recycling needs starting in November, held a press conference Thursday to discuss the transition.

On Monday, 96-gallon trash and recycling carts will be delivered to Omaha residents, starting in the western portion of the city. Deliveries will continue each day, moving eastward.

About 3,800 carts are expected to delivered per day but residents can't begin using them until November 30, the day FCC Environmental takes over the city's waste collection needs.

Recycling will be carried out every two weeks and information about what you can and cannot put in each of the bins will be included. Solid waste and yard waste will be done weekly.

“We’re asking everybody’s patience. We know it’s going to be inconvenient for some people for a while to have their old carts that they’re using, continue using them and to have the new carts sitting there empty," Mayor Stothert explained.

Smaller, 48-gallon carts are available, which can be requested 90 days after the November launch date.

If you're looking for a job, an FCC Environmental representative said they are currently hiring and have 85-90 open positions and that the company is on track to handle the contract.

They'll use new CNG trash trucks that will pick up bins automatically.

“We envision a lot less missed pickups, a lot less customer failures and route, failures just because of our new fleet and the ability to staff properly," said Justin Gallagher, General Manager in Omaha for FCC.

Stothert anticipates high interest in the available positions and believes the new, one-man-collection method which utilizes a special truck to pick up the bins remotely, will lead to smoother collections and less delays such as those which have occurred the past few months during the ongoing pandemic.

FCC replaces Waste Management as the city's trash collector after twenty years.

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