Talking trash

Moorcroft’s Public Works Director Cory Allison, addressed an issue with the town owned garbage receptacles at last week’s meeting of the town council.

“We’re running out of garbage cans,” Allison reported the dilemma. The town has purchased 60 extra dumpsters from Western Sanitation to subsidize for the time being, but the problem is more extensive than first appearance shows.

The receptacles the town owns are old and broken, so, “We’ve been replacing them when we can.” But to replace the whole town, “you’re talking about $25,000-$30,000”.

Allison noted the 20-year-old warm weather receptacles...