*DISCLAIMER - The activity in this video does not represent the Costa Mesa Sanitary District's organics cart rollout in it's entirety. Organics carts were rolled out professionally throughout the entire district, and throughout the 8-week period. This video was filmed for fun.*
Nearly five years have passed since the launch of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District's organics collection stream. The district became the first agency in Orange County to have green waste and food waste & scraps collected from the same container, thanks to CR&R's new (at the time) anaerobic digestion facility. I took on a temp job in Summer 2015 with CR&R as part of the Costa Mesa rollout crew. We spent 4 weeks assembling a massive number of brand new 64 and 35 gallon Toters to be rolled out to Costa Mesa, the unincorporated Santa Ana Heights area, and a small section of Newport Beach which falls within the CMSD legal boundary.
Beginning June 22, 2015, we spent the next 8 weeks rolling out the Toters all over the first city I ever lived in. Map here: www.cmsdca.gov/index.php/43-o...
This is a little video we made for fun on our last street of the day, on the second-to-last Friday of the rollout period. We didn't really have any rules to the race, just whoever could get them in front of each of the 7 houses first. In fact, a full stack of assembled Toters perfectly accommodated a half of this dead-end street with 7 houses on each side. And if there's one thing we learn from this video, is that the early to mid-2010's Dodge Challengers sure had sensitive alarms lol. I'll be sure to add the other stuff I got during that summer onto KZread over time. Don't forget to leave a like and a comment!