I disagree with an editorial of Dec. 30. A pay-per-bag system of collecting garbage may work in pristine areas of the suburbs, but common sense should caution against this idea in the City of Chicago for two solid reasons. 1) I don`t trust my neighbors to buy stickers for their garbage bags or to pay a monthly bill, and don`t want their garbage uncollected or illegally dumped by them. 2) I don`t want to pay for either a new branch of bureaucracy to administer bills or a division of garbage police to chase non-payers and fly- dumpers.
Chicago`s Department of Streets and Sanitation collects garbage from a vast number of homes. It`s in the best interest of Chicagoans that this material is properly collected. Fly-dumping is a major source of urban blight. Streets and Sanitation should not be further burdened with cleaning up fly-dumps that would inevitably occur under the Hoffman Estates plan.
Please remember that what`s good for Hoffman Estates isn`t necessarily good for Chicago.
