Columbia roll cart storage is the topic of tonight’s open house style meeting

Tonight is your opportunity to give your two cents on the storage of roll carts between collection days in Columbia, when they take effect in March.

Columbia Solid Waste will host an open house-style public meeting this evening from 5-7 at city hall. City ordinance says roll carts can be placed at the curb no earlier than 4 pm the day before the scheduled collection day and must be removed from the curb no later than 10 pm on that collection day. The ordinance does not specify where carts should be stored outside of that timeframe, other than it must be on private property.

Columbia’s city council voted unanimously in March to approve a roll cart trash collection system, which will start in March.