While the start of the new plan impacts every Flint resident, it also cuts the number of waste collection workers by more than half compared to last year.
There were 35 sanitation workers in Flint last July. Today there are only 14. That's from a union official who believes the city may next try to privatize garbage collection.
Steve Levels is one of the 14 sanitation workers the city has left. He worked Flint's north side on the first day of biweekly pickup. His biggest complaint: the jobs that have been lost.
Faced with a growing deficit now estimated to be at $10 million, the city's switch to biweekly pickup appears to have been made without input from the guys in the red trucks.
Some residents are now taking their complaints out on the sanitation workers themselves.
The head of the sanitation department was unavailable to talk about the situation Monday.
