Houston residents across the city have reached out to KPRC 2 News for weeks with one message: their trash still isn’t being picked up.
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From mattresses and old furniture to tree limbs and broken appliances, neighbors say the piles are growing along with their frustration.“The mattress… the chair… the wine bottle. It’s killing the grass. I’ve not seen the truck come by,” one person said.After yet another viewer reached out about mounting trash in their neighborhood, KPRC 2’s Re’Chelle Turner went straight to City Hall to get answers.Mayor Whitmire confirmed the city will begin partnering with private contractors starting Wednesday morning to help clear the backlog. “We’re going to play catch-up by outsourcing to private companies, and then we’re going to come back with a new model where we will pick up on demand,” Mayor Whitmire said.“We got the equipment and the personnel rolling out tomorrow. They’re going to start in southwest Houston, and we’re going to do a couple of city sweeps in the next month,” Mayor Whitmire said. Sharpstown resident and KPRC2 viewer Jana invited our crew to see what her neighborhood has been dealing with. While she didn’t want to appear on camera, she allowed us to follow her street by street as piles of trash stretched block after block. “We kind of got tired. We picked ours up and hauled it off just because I have friends that could help us, but a lot of people don’t,” she said. Jana pointed out brown, dead trees, rotting furniture, and trash that she says has been untouched for months. “You can tell some of these trees are brown. We got beds down there, stuff. This furniture to my left has been here forever. You can tell the green trees from the brown trees how long they’ve been sitting. Here, the house to the left,” she said.“I wonder how long that’s been sitting there. Months. Months. Because I go this way to the hospital. You know, this has been sitting here. Some houses have toilets out. Dead trees. I mean, it’s been here a while,” she told KPRC2’s Re’Chelle Turner.“Hopefully sooner than later. We will. We’re committed to it. It’s a priority. I live in Houston. I know it’s a problem,” he said.“I went to City Hall and spoke to the Mayor, and he said starting tomorrow, they’re going to have private contractors that are working with Solid Waste, who are going to be focused on heavy trash pickup.”“Awesome! Well, thank you so much. I’ll put it out there on Next Door Neighbor,” she said.Emmy award-winning journalist born and raised in Alabama. College football fanatic and snow cone lover! Passionate about connecting with the community to find stories that matter.A creative force with a lifelong passion for the arts. Exploring the realms of acting, singing, and film at an early age. With nearly 100 original songs, he is a BMI-published author, his music resonates on all major platforms, international video, films and Netflix.Inside the hours before a Texas A&M student’s fatal fall from an Austin high-rise apartmentEx-NASCAR driver revs up neurodivergent driving training in Houston'I hear BOOM!': Witness recounts police chase that ends in crash, shooting in HoustonFire rips through Meyerland apartment complex, displacing about 50 residentsWanted teacher at Aldine ISD taught for 2 years before arrest on child sex assault chargesTexas A&M student’s death leaves mother seeking answersRising energy costs hit Houston’s older neighborhoods the hardestCity leaders report rise in accidental child gun deathsGas prices plunging just like the temperature
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