GUAM Solid Waste Management division
Services - Collection
The SWMD currently collects residential waste from
nine (9) routes a day. The current condition of the SWMD’s
fleet is poor with normally one or two trucks operating at any one time.
The SWMD rents up to two trash trucks each work day to assist in the
collection of residential routes. This means that for the crews of the
SWMD to collect trash at the curb, a crew sometimes begins its routes
at 9 p.m. the night before the day of regular collection.
A second crew takes the same truck at 4 a.m. along
with a second and sometimes a third truck and crew, and continues collection
along the routes. At 1 p.m. this change
of crews is repeated and these trucks and crews stay out until all the
routes have been collected.
Currently, the Receiver is in the process of rehabilitating trash trucks that are salvageable. The Receiver is purchasing new trucks so that the SWMD can eliminate the rented trucks and have nine trucks leave the yard early in the morning and complete their routes by mid-afternoon. This is the normal practice for the waste industry and would allow these trucks to have preventive maintenance work performed after the routes have been completed.
The following are residential collection routes and schedules by village. Routes are covered in two shifts from Monday to Friday.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday