Starting in March, all Portage neighbors will be using the same trash provider: WM. But around 4,000 neighbors have signed a petition hoping to change that decision.
Drive down any given street in Portage on garbage day, and you’ll notice something distinctive about the trash cans lining the curbs.
“We are a 35-year-old company here in Kalamazoo. We earned 71% of Portage, on hard work,” said Chris Phillips, general manager of Best Way and petition collector for Taking Back the Trash…