Specifications include, but are not limited to: Provide for the efficient, healthful, and aesthetic operation of collection, hauling, and disposal of residential garbage and recycling.; a. Garbage Residential I – the Contractor shall collect residential garbage once per week and residential recyclable materials once bi-weekly from each residential unit within the service area. Residential garbage shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in one (1) ninety (90) gallon rollout cart which shall be provided by the Contractor. Residential recyclable materials shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in one (1) ninety (90) gallon roll-out cart which shall be provided by the Contractor and independent from the contractor provided residential garbage cart. Customer may elect to decline recycling service without reduction in service cost.; b. Garbage Residential II – the Contractor shall collect residential garbage once per week and residential recyclable materials once bi-weekly from each residential unit within the service area. Residential garbage shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in two (2) ninety (90) gallon rollout cart which shall be provided by the Contractor. Residential recyclable materials shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in one (1) ninety (90) gallon roll-out cart which shall be provided by the Contractor and independent from the contractor provided residential garbage cart. Customer may elect to decline recycling service without reduction in service cost to the customer.; c. Garbage Residential III – For residents requiring back door service due to a local covenant, ordinance, or Shelby County resolution, the Contractor shall provide backdoor garbage collection service, twice per week. Residential garbage shall be placed by the Customer at the backdoor readily accessible by the Contractor during the collection hours in three (3) thirty-three (33) gallon or smaller leak proof and animal proof containers provided by the resident. Residential recyclable materials shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in one (1) ninety (90) gallon roll-out cart which shall be provided by the Contractor. Customer may elect to decline recycling service without reduction in service cost to the customer.; d. Garbage/Yard Waste Residential IV – the Contractor shall collect residential garbage once per week and residential recyclable materials once bi-weekly from each residential unit within the service area in addition to once per week pick up and disposal services for yard and grass clippings, dry leaf rakings placed in plastic bags, tree branches, and trimmings not to exceed three (3) inches in diameter or forty-eight (48) inches in length which shall be placed by the Customer at the curbside. The branches shall be bundled and tied in individual bundles and bags not to exceed fifty (50) pounds. This waste shall be picked up with the residential garbage collection. This service shall be at the Customer’s option. Residential garbage shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in one (1) ninety (90) gallon roll-out cart which shall be provided by the Contractor. Residential recyclable materials shall be placed by the Customer at curbside or on a public road readily accessible by the Contractor during collection hours in one (1) ninety (90) gallon roll-out cart which shall be provided by the Contractor and independent from the contractor provided residential garbage cart. Customer may elect to decline recycling service without reduction in service cost to the customer.; e. Natural Disaster – In the event of a natural disaster, such as but not limited to a hurricane, tornado, ice or snow storm which results in a large amount of trash, limbs or debris to be deposited on the highways and right-of-ways of the County. The County shall cause the material to be deposited at a site designated by the County. The Contractor shall provide sufficient number of containers of the roll-off type to the designated site or sites. The County will load said containers and the Contractor will haul said material to site designated by the County within the County. The Contractor shall provide adequate number of personnel, containers and trucks to move the material as loaded. Operations will not exceed sixty (60) days unless authorized by the County. The County will provide free disposal of all material collected. Due to the nature and unknown scope of a natural disaster, the County at its sole discretion may elect to supplement the service described in this paragraph with additional vendors. In no event shall the contractor assume an exclusive franchise for the work described in this paragraph.
