Cleaner Los Angeles

Trash This Dirty Deal

Originally posted at www.foxandhoundsdaily.com

Is a deregulated market a messy market? You bet. Just look at the airlines. They change flight schedules more often than Republicans change front-runners. It’s difficult to recall which airline is in bankruptcy this month.

But those are problems for the airlines to figure out. Airline deregulation in 1978 gave consumers a true benefit: Command of the market. We have a bounty of flights to choose from. At dramatically lower prices than before 1978.

Dumped? L.A. franchise - zone plan could scrap trash haulers

By HOWARD FINE - Monday, February 13, 2012

Matthew Kotanjian’s great-grandfather started recycling milk bottles in downtown Los Angeles back in 1906. He eventually turned that enterprise into Aaa Rubbish Inc., a Bell Gardens waste hauling company that Kotanjian now runs.

The company has survived wars, recessions and competition from giant national waste haulers. But Kotanjian fears that a proposed franchise system for waste haulers could put his company out of business.

L.A.'s new trash plan: better for recycling or a big mess?

By Melissa Pamer, Staff Writerdailynews.com
Posted: 02/12/2012 04:42:07 PM PST
February 13, 2012 12:49 AM GMT Updated: 02/12/2012 04:49:27 PM PST

Los Angeles leaders will this week begin debating a controversial plan to radically change the way trash gets collected from businesses and apartment buildings in the city.