I think I found the source.

It’s such a bad system

I have to imagine it's someone related to the head of the DPW who has a printer and some of the shittiest bags in history

That was pretty funny and accurate

I just did a deep dive on manufacturers of the bags and could find nothing. Nothing on where they source the plastic either. All I have are contact numbers for DPW employees from one of the worcester gov pages. I doubt they'd know either. But these bags have to be shipped from someplace.

It's not the answer you would probably like to hear, but double bagging (regular kitchen bags not double yellow bags) was a solution that we used for a long time.

When I was younger, I was, uh...inefficient when it came to the cat litter. I didn't scoop out the boxes, instead I fully changed the boxes every 3-4 days. I would pour it into a grocery bag, then out it in the kitchen trash (double bagged), and then take out the trash.

They always took the trash, despite being probably 10-20 pounds overweight.

Like I said, nice the idea system, but it does work.

Waste Zero is the manufacturer.

I just double bag. We use our normal kitchen trash bags and when they’re full, put them inside a yellow bag. It’s. Far from ideal.

I would rather they just include the cost of contracted trash pickup in our taxes.

I'm pretty sure it's the same people who completely just destroy my recycling bin every week loading it in-and-out of the truck😡

Furthermore, what big brained moron decided that recycling outside of a bin won’t be taken? Neighbor left out their tv box and it’s still there. Why won’t they just take fucking boxes??

Need to break it down into flat, smaller pieces of cardboard.

[edit] My partner has found the flyer we received when our large piece was rejected. It requested to cut the pieces down to approx 2 ft in length/width and remove plastic/tape if possible. We broke our box into pieces and folded each into something closer to 3x3, stack them; they took the stack sans issue.

There's always two answers people give to this and neither one is satisfactory:

a) break it down - which would be a reasonable suggestion except that when you break down a TV sized box it takes up like 90% of the tiny recycling bin we get, so now you have no room for all your other reycling.

b) "Most towns won't pick up recycling you just leave on the ground." - Maybe so, but I'd bet most of those towns give you a recycling bin that's big enough to hold more than a single box.

Even if you break it down it has to be less than 2 feet by 2 feet. So for a tv you’d have to box cut the shit up. Ridiculous

Can’t stand the recycling bins. When people were using clear bags for that my neighborhood stayed clean now were back to crap blowing all over the street. They fucking went out and bought these new bins that still suck. Way to waste money Worcester

They don't reject them? The whole point of the yellow bag was that it's clear and they won't take it if there's recycling, or something you can't throw away in a trash bag in them.

If you believe that a man working his ass off all day, loading heavy bags of garbage into a truck is going to take a careful look what’s in that trash bag you’re on another planet. And no they’ve never rejected them.

Well, thanks for that. No shit, but they're supposed to reject exactly that. That is the whole point of the trash bags, so I'm still a bit surprised.

> a) break it down - which would be a reasonable suggestion except that when you break down a TV sized box it takes up like 90% of the tiny recycling bin we get, so now you have no room for all your other reycling.

They suggest that you stack the boxes flat and place them beneath or next to the recycling bin, similar to pizza boxes.

I've done this and literally watched from my window as the trash collector picked up the box and threw it back on the ground.

We do the same thing. They definitely don’t care, as long as it’s in a yellow bag they take it.

Yeah, we double bag too. It is really dumb.

Oh, you mean the bags that rip with even the slightest weight in them, forcing you to buy even more bags than you initially needed? No no they’re great 🙄

I bought a pack somewhat recently where every single one inside was pre-ripped and unusable.

We just had this happen too. An entire roll with a huge hole in each bag.

Double bagging is really the only way

Worcester: "Well see, we pre-ripped them to save you the disappointment of a surprise rip when you're carrying them down to the curb! :)"

No pun intended.. these bags are trash. Every few weeks there’s something new that’s wrong with the whole roll. Each roll we open it’s exciting to see what new fresh hell we’ll get for the week! Last week we had a roll that just did not include a draw string… so fun. EVERY SINGLE bag was missing the draw string. ZERO quality control. I can not believe we pay actual money for these things.

I recently moved to the Woo and this actually happened. I didn't think that they wanted me to take out greasy pizza boxes because I figured that greasy pizza boxes would not be recycled. Because they're greasy. And had cheese on them and stuff. But they slapped some citation paper about not trashing recyclables on the bag and left it, saying they would be back for the bag in 24 hours and if not addressed in that time, I would be fined.

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I'm only going to college in Worcester (I have an off-campus apartment) and the waste management compared to my hometown (Western Mass) is like night and day. Just give us a shitty trash bin and let us buy our own bags, please. I had to drive to another store when Price Chopper ran out.

The lowest bidder's lowest paid worker using the cheapest machines with the least maintenance done on them.

Yeah, I don't know why I got downvoted, but I want to throw a lot of shit out now. I don't think our trash guys will take it though. They've been super picky.

The yellow bags are forged in hell by Satan.