Complaints are flowing about Republic Services, Brantley County’s residential trash and garbage service.
According to County Manager Joey Cason, the company is short-staffed because illnesses.
“Ideally, there is an agreement for the holidays,” Cason said Monday, January 6. “When a holiday falls during the week, for instance this year it was Wednesday for Christmas and New Years Day, trash is picked up the next day. Unfortunately, Republic has drivers who are ill and can’t work causing a shortage. They are doing the best they can right now.”
Cason said the company put out dumpsters to try and help with the shortfall.
“They put out eight-foot high containers that are not easy to put trash in,” he said.
Cason said he had reached out to company officials Monday via email, but had not received a response by 4 p.m. He was hoping to receive an answer before the commissioner’s office closed Monday afternoon.
According to a post on the Brantley County Government website posted December 31, delays in waste collection were being felt at Hawks Landing, Hwy. 110 from Lanier Road to Warners Landing, Browntown, Murphy, Mineral Springs and Hwy. 82.
Dumpsters were placed at the Hortense Fire Station on Hwy. 32, High Bluff Fire Station located on High Bluff Road, Hickox Fire Station on Caney Bay Road, the recreation department on Baker Creek, and the Waynesville Fire Station on Tyson Road.
