About 600 Prairie Village curbs on Monday morning were littered with carpets, furniture and other bulky items.
That’s because Republic Services missed several households during Prairie Village’s first large item pickup weekend of the season on Saturday, April 22.
The missed pickups come after Republic laid out a plan to fix delays to its regular service in Prairie Village in January. The Arizona-based waste hauler serves most Prairie Village residents.
About 30% of large item pickups were missed on Saturday
- Tyler Riordan, a municipal sales manager with Republic, said about 70% of pickups were completed April 22.
- That left about 30% of pickups, or roughly 600 homes, to complete on Monday, April 24, he said.
- Riordan told the Post via email that all available resources including trucks, drivers and helpers were sent out the morning of April 24 to collect the missed pickups.
- He said all missed stops were to be collected by the end of the day Monday.
This is only the first weekend of large item pickup
- The free service allows Prairie Villagers to set out bulky items too large for regular trash pickup service over a four-weekend period in April and May.
- Riordan told the Post that the Republic team plans to meet with city staff this week to go over the game plan for the next three Saturdays of large item pickup.
- “Our operations and logistics teams have a plan in place to ensure the next three Saturdays go much more smoothly,” Riordan told the Post via email.
It’s unclear what specifically led to the missed pickups
- Riordan declined to answer the Post’s question about what specifically led to the missed pickups, despite being asked twice.
- Riordan told the Prairie Village City Council in January that staffing shortages caused pickup delays last fall and winter.
- The city levied a $1,000 fine for missed regular pickups in late December 2022.
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