By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
The City of Salina's Friday sanitation customers won bragging rights this week.
According to information on the city's Facebook page, 98.9 percent of the customers along the city's Friday sanitation routes complied with the guidelines for waste collection. Coming in second were the Thursday sanitation customers, who had a 98.4 percent compliance rate. Other compliance rates were as follows: Tuesday, 97.1 percent; Wednesday, 96.8 percent; and Monday, 96.2 percent.
On Oct. 6, the city announced that beginning Monday, only waste within fully closed waste carts would be collected. The city began a soft rollout of the waste collection guidelines on July 19 in order to help "customers learn and adapt to the new guidelines."
Beginning Monday, the city began announcing on its Facebook page the percentages of compliance on its waste collection routes, congratulating those who followed the guidelines. It posted the following message on its Facebook page late this afternoon.
INCREDIBLE JOB FRIDAY! You all had the highest percentage for this week! A big THANK YOU to all of our customers for your patience over the past couple of months during our transition to automated collection. This was the first week that the sanitation work group fully implemented the sanitation cart guidelines that have been in soft rollout since July. On behalf of everyone with the sanitation work group, thank you for following the guidelines and by doing so keeping our community clean and our employees safe!
To view the sanitation guidelines please visit: http://www.salina-ks.gov/Sanitation
*Percentage of collected sanitation customers calculated from the data reported on 10/22/2021.