We pay a LOT of taxes in Livingston.

One of the reasons is that the sanitation pick-up guys are paid to go all the way to the back of the house and pick-up the garbage out of the garbage cans if you want. The original intent I believe is so that we don’t have empty garbage cans lining the streets twice a week all over the pace. It’s plain ugly – and people are willing to pay for this.

The only problem is that many people either don’t know about this, or don’t follow along. So our tax dollars are kind of going to waste to serve the few (or lazy or both).

There’s a SURVEY right now that the Township of Livingston is holding online about this issue. Do your part and take the survey — and/or stop putting your trash cans out at the curb, and tell the guys to go to your backyard and get the trash themselves — don’t feel guilty — you’ve already paid for it!