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one of the first papers I wrote in grad school was about the relative costs of private trash collection vs public

I couldn't find any evidence there was a difference in overall costs, either on the production side or the costs that get passed on to consumers

but one big difference between services that were contracted out vs services that were done in-house is that private contractors were much MUCH more likely to invest in capital than in labor. and the opposite was true for public.

on those terms, even though the costs are nominally the same, I would prefer private collection since a capital investment is more likely to result in better services than hiring more people IMO

edit - lol wrong topic, I'm gonna leave it though
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