So now (well soon) we're going to pay for trash on post if you go over your average consumption allowance? Hmmm. I didn't even know we had an average consumption allowance, other then the size of the garbage cans. Thoughts? 

They probably mean if you have more bags than can fit in the trash can with lid closed. At least that's how it is in Lacey, we get charged for every extra bag, lol. 

We have two cans at our house, but only use one, and the recycling bin. So if the average is two cans plus recycling, I'm ok with that. I'd like to know how they plan on tracking that though. Weigh each garbage can?? Or average per neighborhood. I hate neighborhood averaging, some people always skew the readings. 

I really doubt they go through the trash cans to figure out what the average everyone has is. 

That is how it is in a lot of places off post. Extra bags outside of the can means extra charges on your monthly bill. I'm guessing that is what they mean by going over average consumption. The average household doesn't fill 2 giant trash cans plus have extra bags for pickup in a single week.

Here having 2 cans instead of 1 also costs extra so and we learned to adapt to having 1 since living off post. 

How are they going to monitor that in neighborhoods like Clarkdale? They had dumpsters at the multiplexes there. 

They probably mean if you have more bags than can fit in the trash can with lid closed. At least that's how it is in Lacey, we get charged for every extra bag, lol.

I remember when we lived in Lacey we got charged extra if the lid of the can didn't close, lol! But I thought I remembered something about the weight too?

The notice also says the changes will include an exchange of our current trash cans. So I doubt we will all have two cans plus recycling anymore. 

Maybe they will issue bigger cans. 

When I lived in Puyallup about 4 years ago you were charged extra if your lid didn't close or you had trash outside your can. It's the same way here in Lawton OK from what I have been told, but thankfully they pick up 2 times a week. 

if you have an extra can you never use, they will haul it away for you. make sure you call the trash place directly though. housing told me they would handle it and never got back to me telling me they couldnt. 

That's ridiculous. I could see if they had to get out of the truck and do it, but if the lid doesn't close? Really? How petty. Housing is so effn ridiculous anyways. For the price we pay each month to live here, they should all provide us with ACs and stop worrying about the d*mn trash! (maybe IDC cuz we only have 1 bag of trash a week, lol.) 

All the little stupid things is why we chose NOT to live on post here at Sill. Not only is the house not worth our BAH but I have way less stupid rules with my landlady and the city :) 

Lol, living off post is pretty expensive. I would be thankful if everything was covered by BAH. 

The letter said we will be getting new cans and if we want more than one now we will have to pay for it! We have two trash cans now and our family uses them too! 

we never got a letter. when does this start? are they going to exchange the cans on trash day or do we have to put them out? 

It was in the mail today but I only check it like once a week so I don't know when it was delivered. Says it starts the week of September 10th. 

We got ours on tues or wed, 

We had to get it at least Fri or Sat because we were out of town. They wont even pick up bulk trash with out an email. I wounder if I need to schedule that before the 10th. 

okie dokie. i never get the mail so its probably there.

we are outta here on the 4th. 

The trash cans will be smaller. I was just on the phone with housing because mine were stolen and she said maybe they were just taken and replaced with the "newer smaller ones". Um, no. They were stolen. 

Three bedroom houses are getting a 65 gallon can and four and five bedroom houses are getting a 95 gallon can. It was on their Facebook page.

I would hope they would tell us when they are picking up the second one most of us already have. 

Maybe smaller cans will help everyone to take advantage of the recycling program and be a little less wasteful. We are a family of 4 and our cans are hardly ever full. We recycle as much as possible. The money raised from the program helps a lot with the communities. Some of the water parks they installed a couple of years back at one post was because of the recycling programs. 

We recycle and our large can is still 95% full every week. Plus by the end of two weeks our recycle can overflows. 

I'm out of state on vacation right now and didn't know about this. So could someone please inform me whats fully going on or a website I can look at that will give me all the information in the letter? Also, what is the facebook page? Thanks everyone. :) 

Basically if you live in a 2 or 3 bedroom house you'll now have a 65 gallon can and a recycle can. If you live in a 4 or 5 bedroom house you'll have a 95 gallon can and a recycle can. If you want another garbage can, or if you need to put out more garbage, you'll have to pay for it yourself.

They haven't given any real details on how/when we're getting new cans or turning in old ones. And no details have been given yet on how the bulk trash pick-up is changing.

Their FB page is Lewis McChord Communities. They posted the letter sometime last week. 

Thank you very much for the information. I greatly appreciate it. 

where im from all the cans are the same size, they just have an insert they put in them depending on what you pay for. wonder why they dont do that instead of getting new cans.

haha... new cans....

i dont think we ever got the letter in the mail, unless my husband threw it away before i saw it. 

How have i not gotten the notice about this yet? 

They should go by family size, not number of rooms, that's just silly, I know lots of families of 5, that had 4 beds and lots that had 3, I know LOTS of married w/no kids who get 3 beds or had only 1 and got a 3 bed....it's makes no sense that way... 

We just had 3 new neighbors move in to our building in the last month or so. All 3 were given 1 trash can and 1 recycle bin, instead of the 2 trash cans the rest of us have. I think that is going to be part of the change.