Most private and municipal dumps now charge high fees to drop anything off unless they are subsidized. They were likely collecting directly from the defunct garbage company.
The city residents are probably already paying $15 to $50 per month per household for trash pickup and now they are certainly not getting what they paid for. Most will not pay an additional $5 to $20 per week for the privelage of hauling their own trash in their personal vehicles.
The city government is not handling it well, the elected officials should be scrambling to get someone new in to continue the trash pickup, even if it stretches their budgets more than they like. They may have problems come election time, remember how Jane Burne (spelling) became mayor of Chicago after snow storms shut down that city around 1980?
Trash hauling is generally very lucrative with members of "organized" families involved. Reading between the lines, I find it hard to believe a trash hauler has financial problems unless someone embezzeled a large sum of money.
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