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Lansing City Council is considering a proposal to eliminate private garbage collection services and make the city the sole provider.
This proposal would affect roughly half of Lansing residents who currently use private companies like Granger and Waste Management.
LANSING — City council members are working to toss Granger, Waste Management and other private garbage collection companies to the curb in a bid to make the city the only residential trash collector in Lansing.
That means over half the city's residents would have to switch from private trash collectors including Granger, which is the biggest private hauler in Lansing, Keith Granger, CEO of Granger Waste Services, said in an email.
City Council President Ryan Kost and council member Trini Pehlivanoglu intr