Woke Massachusetts mayor enrages residents after moving garbage pickup to twice a month

Woke Massachusetts mayor enrages residents after moving garbage pickup to twice a month


Something stinks in Medford.

Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn is racking up do-gooder awards for her environmental crusading, but some elected officials and residents of the Boston suburb are less impressed with her latest effort that will soon see trash pickup reduced to once every two weeks.



The new plan, which will see residents’ 64-gallon trash bins collected half as frequently, was announced in tandem with the news that Medford had received a $200,000 “Pay As You Throw” grant from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

“We made a commitment to Zero Waste in that plan and are making it easier for Medford residents and businesses to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials to restore or renew value, eliminate waste, and decrease pollution,” Lungo-Koehn, a Democrat, said in a press release trumpeting the news.

“It’s the right move for our residents and businesses, it’s the right move for the environment, and it’s the right move for our City’s future.”

Lungo-Koehn was honored last July for Medford’s weekly curbside composting program by the National Recycling Coalition — naming her an “Outstanding Elected Leader” for her support of the initiative, which garnered another award just last month from the Northeast Recycling Council.

But residents on social media were enraged at the plan, which they claim will only contribute to the city’s apparent rodent problem.

“So more rats will be coming. It’s awful there are so so many rats in our neighborhood,” one resident moaned on a Medford community Facebook page.

“The exterminators’ business will increase with rubbish removal every other week. The rats are taking over our neighborhoods,” said another.

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