WM's Manual Garbage Collection--Carlsbad, CA (Part 2)

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.

Comment on the video please! I worked hard for this to be a success, and wasted much of my time editing it. Hope you enjoy it though!

Photos of this truck to be uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trashman242/

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[extrashman67]

does this truck dump at a M.R.F. or does it go directly to a land fill

[Trashman242]

@extrashman67 Carlsbad has a transfer station where this is taken to, but nothing is sorted out of the trash there. After being left at the transfer station it travels straight to a landfill in San Diego.

[FormerWMDriver]

Great job on the video!

[Trashman242]

@FormerWMDriver Thank you Alan.

[packerman2r3]

Boy, this guy is in no hurry

[Trashman242]

@packerman2r3 Yeah he just kinda takes it easy. But doing manual all day in hot weather isn't fun either

[funnyent]

very nice video! I really like manual collection. thanks!

[nokia3750]

nice great that you caught this

[150ftrek]

i think that this is the slowest way to collect trash

[internationalRLfan]

Nice job!

[WMmaster626]

Great vid!!