New Corbin garbage cans coming, but when is uncertain

Corbin residents and many Corbin businesses will be getting new curbside 95-gallon trash cans as part of an upgrade the City of Corbin is doing for its sanitation department. It remains to be seen how soon those new garbage cans will get here though.

The Corbin City Commission voted on July 1 to budget $209,000 to purchase 3,500 new 95-gallon garbage cans, one of which will be provided to each residential home in the city limits. The city commission also voted to spend another $15,000 to purchase lifts for its garbage trucks in order to accommodate the new cans.

Corbin Mayor Suzie Razmus said that the switch will take place sometime this fiscal year, which started on July 1 and ends on June 30, 2022.

She said that the city must order the cans, but with the pandemic causing supply issues affecting many products throughout the country, she can’t say when those garbage cans will arrive or when they will be delivered to local residents so they can start using the new cans.

Razmus said in response to concerns from one elderly citizen that city officials would work with people who can’t wheel the big new cans to the curb.

“We will take care of our elderly and disabled population,” she promised noting that in some cases workers may have to get out of the garbage trucks to get the garbage cans for some people.

In regards to commercial garbage collection, Razmus said that businesses, which don’t have enough garbage for a dumpster, will be receiving the new cans for use too.

Plans are for all of the garbage, or at least the vast majority of the garbage, to be picked up with the lifts that will be installed on the garbage trucks.

This is to help prevent injuries to workers and keep them from having to pick-up some of the really nasty garbage, Razmus noted.