Rodent-resistant garbage totes to be rolled out

[Smiley]

The LAST thing we want is Eggertsville rats!! We have enough with the Wards!

I don't get it......

[Smiley]

Was it in front of Bings hollering "On the Question"?

It was probably on it's way back there....

[Enough]

Now we need our government to spend $1.7 million to take care of our rat problem? What about the people that have ants? We gonna do anything for them?

Talk about our insatiable need to be cared for by our government from the Womb to the Tomb???

Here's a pretty valuable link: http://www.orkin.com/pestcontrol/the_pest_threat.aspx

Just a little push to help you to take your life back and solve your own problems...

[WNYresident]

1.7 mil.. how many totes are they purchasing and what is the manufacturer?

[Gandalf]

1.7 mil.. how many totes are they purchasing and what is the manufacturer?

Bings needs the larger ones that's what drove the cost up!

[atotaltotalfan2001]

they are already in williamsville

Yup. I can't tell you how excited we all were on my street (in the village) to get the totes. I mean it! They're sturdy, easy to handle. Bless the village is all I can say!!!!! If we've got to pay taxes, it's nice to at least see something tangible in return.

[dags]

Yup. I can't tell you how excited we all were on my street (in the village) to get the totes. I mean it! They're sturdy, easy to handle. Bless the village is all I can say!!!!! If we've got to pay taxes, it's nice to at least see something tangible in return.

I agree fan....when we got ours in Tonawanda I thought they were great (
still do) very durable and hold alot of garbage(i would have 4-5cans) Now I
have one tote. Although I still fill one can of recycables each week....the
little orange bins do not hold nearly enough.

[joe d.]

1.7 mil.. how many totes are they purchasing and what is the manufacturer?

I was on N.FRENCH RD. yesterday and saw a large parking lot next to the Soccer fields that was stacked with hundreds of totes. Must be a "distribution yard".

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Last I knew the tote roll-out that began weeks ago was to conclude by Memorial Day. I do not believe that anyone South West of Maple Road and North Forest Road has been presented with their bin.

Has the programme been cancelled?

[|- Amherst Stakeholder -|]

This is a quote: "Deliveries of the two-wheel, covered garbage containers will begin in rural north Amherst and move southward throughout May. Town officials hope to hand out all 34,000 of the totes by Memorial Day, Moses said. Amherst bought the totes, or rollout carts, with the proceeds of a $1.7 million bond in hopes of controlling a growing rat menace, especially along the town’s borders with Cheektowaga and Buffalo."

Town employees cannot even deliver totes according to a plan. Theyt are obviously incompentent to even accomplish a simple task like that! There is no excusae for failing a simple project like delivering garbage cans. Even worse they donm't even have the courtesy are professionalism to announce why they cannpt get the job done... or if it will ever be done. Amherst Town Governmenty e,mployees are utter failurs at jusdt about evertything they do. Isn't it a shame that they get full pay for failures.

[WNYresident]

34,000 totes is still a lot of totes....

Are they stackable or do they pile them up on a flatbed and drop them off house by house?

I would assume they would just have a truck follow them along on garbage pickup days leave the totes behind.

Why didn't they just hire UPS to deliver them?

[therising]

They're not rodent-resistant; SurfingUSA got his open.

[therising]

34,000 totes is still a lot of totes....

Do you have evidence to back up that staetment? Please provide a link.
Thanks

[Shasta13]

from experience I know that there is a big problem in Eggertsville & Snyder

I was actually going to buy a couple of these cool Savannah cats and breed them...figured they'd sell, my Siamese got her a$$ kicked while battleling a gang of rats. She took out three, but got bit and infected, cost me over $200 at the vet.

My friend had a Main Coon cat. He is quite the ratter. Main Coon cats are huge, which is a plus in taking on big ratties.

I saw a rat the other evening in front of the neighbor's house and found a yound one dead under our pine tree here in Cheektowaga. They were the first two I had seen, or found any evidence of in quite a while.

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I'd just like to hear the official "excuse" for nt being able to deliver garbage cans according to an intended plan. Are the Town Of Amherst employees just too lazy? Why haven't they been delivered to points southwest of Maple and North Forest Roads. THat's a BIG miscalculation. No excuse that I can image could be justified. The employees are most likely to blame. they like failure.