Minnesota Judge Rules Against Citizen Efforts to Block Organized Trash Hauling

A judge last week ruled for the city of Bloomington in a lawsuit filed by a group opposed to the organized trash collection system the city adopted in October.

Hennepin County District Judge Daniel Moreno ruled that Bloomington had followed procedures set by the Minnesota Waste Management Act in adopting the trash collection program, and that the law pre-empted the group’s efforts to put the issue on the ballot.

The district court ruling called the concerns of the group, Hands Off Our Cans, “primarily economic in nature” and said that it had disregarded “physical, social, environmental, and aesthetic considerations.”