Outgoing Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Tom Byrne on Tuesday acknowledged “growing pains” in the switch from ward-by-ward to grid-based garbage collection, but said he’s working through those problems. A handful of aldermen have complained about overflowing baskets on commercial strips, missed pickups and rotten working conditions in the switch to a system Mayor
Rahm Emanuel is counting on to save $20 million this year and up to $60 million a year once it’s implemented citywide.
