Trash Collectors Wimp Out

Indianapolis's Department of Public Works is cancelling residential trash, heavy trash and curbside recycling collection today due to extreme cold.

This cancellation applies to all DPW trash routes and all trash routes serviced by contracted trash collectors.

Weather permitting, trash operations will operate on a slide schedule with Wednesday's routes being picked up tomorrow, Thursday's collected on Friday, and so on.

This Indianapolis Observer notes that the city waited until afternoon to announce this, although trash collection ostensibly starts at 7:30 a.m.