Within the past few months, West Bradford Township decided to make a seemingly dramatic move in regards to its trash and recycling collection. The new trash and recycling contractor for West Bradford Township is ... West Bradford Township.
West Bradford's move to in-house operations of its solid waste program brings to mind West Chester's failed experiment in contracting it's trash collection in the mid-1990s. Anyone care to recall when Mascaro's decided that the most effective way to collect trash was to run a front-end loader type trash truck through the neighborhoods with a dumpster? That was a really professional way to do business, now wasn't it? That is, of course, if they decided to show up. Thankfully, the Borough Council decided several years ago to bring the work back in house after that privitization experiment failed.
One can't help but wonder if this might be the start of a trend in which townships, which for the most part contract out trash collection, decide that it's cheaper and more effective to operate the service in house. This may be the third municipality in Chester County that keeps trash collection in house (Phoenixville is the other town that has it's own trash trucks); it's a fairly common practive in most inner-ring suburbs in Delaware and Montgomery Counties. Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't have guessed that West Bradford Township would've been the latest township that decided to end it's contract with it's provider.
But, hey, more power to them...
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