Chicago Residents Issue Complaints Over Trash Truck Noise

The residents are claiming that private trash haulers are unloading dumpsters before dawn, disrupting residents’ sleep and violating a city ordinance.

SEATTLE (Waste 360): Some residents in Portage Park, a suburb of Chicago, have voiced concerns over private trash truck noise. The residents are claiming that private trash haulers are unloading dumpsters before dawn, disrupting residents’ sleep and violating a city ordinance, according to a report by CBS.

The residents are claiming that private trash haulers are unloading dumpsters before dawn, disrupting residents’ sleep and violating a city ordinance.

The report states that the city ordinance bans anyone from unloading “garbage cans, dumpsters or similar objects … in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance within a residential district,” earlier than 7 a.m. or later than 10 p.m.

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