WM's Manual Garbage Collection--Carlsbad, CA (Part 1)

As common as it is to see WM collecting trash manually in, say, Florida, it is a rare sight here in California. Carlsbad is one of the last cities where completely manual collection is still going strong, with two-stream recycling in crates, and trash as well as greens in customer-provided cans. The truck you'll see here is the main kind that collects in the city of Carlsbad, just up the coast from San Diego. A split version of this same truck would be doing the recycling, and another front loader on a Volvo chassis (most commonly) is what does the yard waste.

This was filmed right after Christmas of 2009, the same day that I caught the Heil POD on video actually. You'll notice quite a lot of cardboard being taken with the trash here, I'm sure it can be argued that that doesn't resemble WM's policy of "Think Green" so well. It might be that they only do that around Christmas when people stuff cardboard boxes with all their trash and set that out...Comment on the video please! I worked hard for this and wasted too much of my time editing it as well! Hope you enjoy it though!

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[ucms1974]

I remember as a kid, Carlsbad was serviced by Coast Waste Management. They had a yard over on Ponto Dr. Was CWM always a part of Waste Management or were they bought up by them?

[Trashman242]

@ucms1974 I'm pretty sure they still go by that name, at least on their website. And I imagine they were always owned by WM. They used to run side loaders before these, and they were in WM colors so at least that far back it was WM. Thanks for the comment!

[WMmaster626]

@Trashman242 on google satellite, there are a few MSLs in the yard

[Trashman242]

@WMmaster626 Yeah sadly that's an outdated photo.

[WMmaster626]

@Trashman242 on google satellite? The trucks were already painted half yellow back. But I think you're right since you are the SD man.

[Trashman242]

@WMmaster626 Well are you using google maps or google earth? I've never heard of a google "satellite". I know the only thing they might have are missed stop trucks and a few small RLs, but I just want to see what you mean.

[WMmaster626]

@Trashman242 I posted a pick on flickr of it

[internationalRLfan]

Not sure how i missed the series but great job!

[WMmaster626]

nice! and @100Burrtec100 I used to have manual collection at my old house! My grandma gave me the old WM bins (tri R Recycling bins)

[100Burrtec100]

cool !! i remeber my grandma had manual wm service at a pomona condo