Republic trash services. =(
We’ve completed four trash, or partial trash, tours now, and the consistent factor is that whenever we need a dumpster, and Republic says they’ll have it there by X o’clock, it usually arrives at X+3 or more o’clock. Picking up trash and piling it on the ground next to where you want the dumpster placed becomes annoying by your fourth time. Instead of picking up once and finishing your job, we get to do it twice or more, depending on the availability and proximity of our trucks to where we’re working. This tour, cleaning out the area that is the Eglington Preserve on the N side of Vegas in Aliente, Republic managed to lose the work order on Tuesday, delaying the arrival of the dumpster until Wednesday. The preserve is currently surrounded by a construction zone and will eventually be a nature area for blind and uneducated Vegas suburbians. We grumbled much about cleaning up an area to make it nice for those who destroy the desert landscape and participate in the trashing of it in the first place. We decided it’d be much more educational to leave the trash and let them do the dirty work of cleaning it up.
Since a survey of the trash in the Preserve had not been completed before we arrived to work, we weren’t sure on the volume of trash in the 300 acres, and Adam guestimated it at coming close to filling a 20-cubic-foot dumpster. We definitely could have filled a 28-cubic-foot dumpster. Adam and Melody, and Tommy and Hillary found a truck bed that someone left in the area before it became a preserve, and since the desert wildlife had converted it into nice habitat, they left it. Excusing the truck bed, some items we found that did not fit into the small dumpster were a refrigerator and multiple rolls of old carpet.
Also on Wednesday, Jon, Tommy, and I saw one of the elusive desert tortoises.