Wheels on New Republic Trash Bins Recalled

 

Wheels are being replaced on approximately 9,000 trash bins that have been delivered to San Angelo homes following a factory recall.

If residential customers notice their trash and recycling carts have been moved, it’s because the wheels have been replaced. Toter, the company delivering the carts, is replacing a defective mechanism that holds the wheels in place in an effort to relieve future problems with wheels becoming unhinged. Toter is replacing the wheels at a rate of about 1,000 bins per day on any carts that are visible.

Toter employees will not enter any gates or structures to replace wheels. If a cart’s wheels need replacing and it is not visible, Toter employees will replace the cart on the first day of service after the new collection routes take effect July 20. Customers can learn when their garbage and recycling collection day will be by visiting cosatx.us/CollectionSchedule.

Residential customers will not have to make any extra effort to ensure defective wheels are replaced. Citizens will not be charged for the replacement parts.

For more information, visit cosatx.us/SolidWaste or call Republic Services at 325-481-7700.

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LOL... These morons that run this city..... Mine has not even seen a single piece of trash inside the cans and they're already broken...... I think after the summer heat and upcoming winter cold along with the truck squeezing the stuffing out of them, these plastic cans are all going to self destruct....... What a bunch of brainless idiots we elect.... Well, I guess though a couple of the deal makers did get large sack of cash handed to them under the table for this fiasco..........

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