Trash Valet and Illegal practices?

First the building introduces Trash Valet service for $30 a month and you cannot opt out.

Then they locked the trash shoots so we can’t use them.

I find the whole service disgusting and refuse to put trash in my hallway in a high rise building, wtf? The hallways stink and the Trash Valet guy uses elevators for two hours every night to move the trash to the basement. So in the evening you have to deal with those poor bastards. Plus the trash keeps falling out all over the place. It’s a disgrace.

Fine, I don’t mind taking the trash down to the dumpsters in the garage myself.

But now they outdone themselves. They built a sliding door to the dumpsters and put a lock on it.

So basically you cannot get rid of the trash other than via Trash Valet. In whose interest this is?

Is this even legal? For instance if I travel I like to take out my trash, I don’t want trash rotting in my apartment for two weeks.

Can we file a complaint to the city for this? I should be able to take out my own trash damn it 🙂