"Minneapolis garbage hauling to remain as is: It seems clear that after two years of wrangling over trash hauling, MRI will keep serving the 52,000 households it has had for 37 years." by Steve Brandt, Star Tribune, November 7, 2008 excerpt - . . . That means that the more than 21,000 southwest households the city was poised to award to Aspen to collect will instead stay with Minneapolis Refuse Inc. MRI is a consortium of 14 haulers that for 37 years have split waste and recycling hauling for the city's households with municipal crews. The City Council decided in 2006 to inject more competition into the waste-hauling contract and got proposals from both Aspen and MRI last summer. It was poised to award 41 percent of households to Aspen because the Como neighborhood-based firm proposed to charge about 50 cents less per household per month than MRI charges. But the almost $800,000 in savings the city stood to gain over five years by shifting households to Aspen vanished over its insistence on a labor peace clause. . . |
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