Kenner trash wars update

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In response to the failure by Ramelli Waste owner Bob Ramelli to remove his company’s trash
containers throughout the city, the company has been issued a summons in Kenner Mayor’s Court for
22,000 separate violations of Kenner’s litter law, Mayor Ben Zahn announced.

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Well done, bruh

upvote for extremely valid use of "trashy"

I guess we know who's palms he forgot to grease. I wonder how long it takes him to remember.

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for doing a, well, trashy job

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Surely the contract stipulates how/when they would need to pick up the cans?

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Down here in St. Bernard we recently changed providers (ironically, also to IV Waste) but it wasn't nearly as scandalous... it was just the end of the contract and they signed a new provider.

Anyways, a few weeks before the new contract began, IV waste started dropping off the new cans. About a week later, Pelican started picking up their old cans, on the same day as your garbage day. Basically, they had trucks that would ride behind the garbage truck and pick up the cans. It took a while to get the new cans to everyone and the old cans from everyone, so in that meantime, the company picking up the trash just used whatever can, as it took a while to get them all replaced.

It was no big deal and life goes on.

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I also don't understand the desire to drag your own name through the mud and ruin chances of winning new contracts in the future.

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Because Ramelli is the kind of person who thinks he will win this, and Kenner will be forced to fire IV Waste and go back to Ramelli. Failing that, he thinks he will be about to get a ton of cash out of Kenner for breaking the contract. He's willing to drag his name through the mud because he thinks he's gonna get paid.

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But I cant get over how this whole thing appears shady the way the contract got pulled.

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Because Torres is trash

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But I cant get over how this whole thing appears shady the way the contract got pulled.

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The trash business is full of, shall we say, trashy characters.

Zahn kinda has a Trump-ish, I'll do what needs to be done, and the hell with the consequences, way about him. Dumping Ramelli and getting a better provider in IV Waste is probably in the best interests of the city of Kenner. Zahn probably broke protocol and contract terms in doing so, and it will likely cost Kenner some money in the end, because they will have to settle with Ramelli or Zahn will be found in breach of the contract for not properly handling grievances / ending it.

If Zahn followed protocol / contract it probably would have taken a few more months but it probably would have worked out better in a legal sense. But Zahn has to listen to the complaints and decided to act faster.

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