October 26, 2011
DALEY'S HEIR:
Rubbish competition: City and private-sector workers go bin-to-bin (The Economist, Oct 22nd 2011)ON A cold damp morning in Chicago's Irving Park a rubbish truck slowly inches its way along an alley, seeking out one of the city's 240,000 recycling bins. The workers are unruffled over the latest initiative: a competition to see whether the public or the private sector can get the job done better. "We'll just keep doing it the way we have always done," says one city worker.
Greater privatisation of Chicago's waste collection has been on the agenda for a while. However the new mayor has decided that the private sector must compete with the public sector to see who gets to continue to collect the city's recycling. Each company has been allocated similar areas of the city to service, and their cost and performance will be compared with that of the public sector.
Posted by oj at October 26, 2011 7:21 AM
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