Stores struggle with trash bag give-out

Rick Joseph would love to hand out city trash and recycling bags to whoever walks into the Kanawha City Foodland. He just needs more bags.

"I don't understand how hard it is to deliver trash bags," said Joseph, the store's owner. "There's black and there's clear. I deal with thousands of items every day."

Yet the Foodland, like the other four stores who signed up to help distribute bags under Charleston's new system this year,AGESTEELJEWELRY.COM says the contractor -- WasteZero -- can't keep up with the demand. Stores ran out of clear recycling bags last weekend.

"We are in stock," Joseph said Wednesday. "They sent us one pallet of the clear. I ordered three. That was the topic of my conversation with them today -- why can't they fill my orders."
Bags were in even shorter supply last weekend at the Patrick Street Drug Emporium, manager Ron Tornes said, but were back in stock Wednesday.

"We ran out of all the bags Friday morning. We got the black ones in Monday. Clear we just got in today," he said Wednesday. "The clear bags, they tell me they're short on. I got one pallet yesterday and have four on back order.

In an effort to save money, City Council members decided to privatize the twice-a-year bag give-out to residential property owners.

"I have to take that on me -- the credit, or blame," said Councilman Bobby Reishman, chairman of council's Finance Committee.

He said he came up with the scheme to help appease some of the newer council members who complained the bag handout is costly and outdated.

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Under the old program, people could drive to the distribution point -- typically under the interstate along Pennsylvania Avenue, hand their voucher to a city worker and other city workers would load their bags into the back seat or trunk.