These poor garbagemen work their tails off in all weather conditions and consistently are the whipping boys from the budget department so they can mitigate the spiralling out for contol costs they are saddled with.
How about privatizing the fire department.  Those guys and girls only work 2/3rds of what a garbage man does as they are sleeping the rest of the time.  When they actually work, it is most likely duplicitous work done my the paramedics, false alarms, filling up the tanks, polishing the trucks, cutting their grass., cooking the meals, watching the Leafs on TV......and yes....maybe yes fighting a fire or two or cleaning a smashup.  i had a friend who was a captai, and recently retired, and he admittted he only fought one major fire in 25 years/  YUppers one fire in 25 years.  And those are the stats my friends.  SO quit picking on the garbage men who work hard 5 days a week.  I am convinved we could fire the garbage dept and have the lazy fireboy pick up the pieces.