Bonner County's new waste system stinks

I have lived in Bonner County for 28 years. I have visited the transfer garbage station off Colburn Culver Road for all of those years. My last trips to the dump have gotten increasingly worse. Before the “new changes,” you could drive to a dumpster, back up, and throw your garbage in it, and drive off. Everything was clean and neat. I usually about saw two employees working there.

Now you have to stop at two stop signs, wait until you are waved on, back up to a huge open building full of stinky broken sacks of garbage, get out on a slippery, garbage slurry cement surface to unload your garbage and throw it on the cement floor. The germs and filth are all over the bottom of your shoes and you must get in your vehicle and contaminate your floor and pedals, not to mention the floors of your home if you don’t try to clean off your shoes. There are about five or more employees working there now.

I called the waste management office and complained and was told it was a more efficient system. Please explain to me how that can be. More employees and wages, garbage slurry all over the cement, contamination all over and being sent home on shoes all over the county, and a huge mess to look at. When it gets hotter it will be full of flies.

Is management waiting until someone slips and falls and sues? This is not a better or cleaner system. Please go back to the previous clean way for people to dispose of their garbage.

WENDY CONNER

Sandpoint