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Post by blossoming on Oct 1, 2010 18:17:51 GMT -5
Please explain anything you want to.........do you burn, go to transfer station, go to dump, have pick up at your home or ?
how do you think the ease or difficulty of your particular situation effects your efforts?
-------------------------------------------------- where i used to live, we had no government trash service. you could pay a private company but it was extremely expensive and only maybe one person each block could afford this. most people burned their trash as the transfer station was quite far away.
i didn't want to burn my trash, bad for the environment, and lost the private service when i couldn't pay. so i wound up having an entire room filled with my trash in my house. it was horrible. now i wish i would have just burned it like my neighbors did.
there is no government service where i live now either. so, i talked to some neighbors and we split a dumpster now. i will never make the mistake i made before again. if i ever can't pay the bill, i will begin burning my trash even though i think it's wrong. destroying my life is even worse, i've decided.
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Post by glowworm on Oct 1, 2010 18:51:14 GMT -5
Pickup at the house for regular garbage twice a week. Pickup for recycling once a week. Pickup for yard waste once a week.
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Post by stretch on Oct 1, 2010 18:51:42 GMT -5
The city I just moved to has city provided trash service and it's a pain. With my last (private) trash service, I could put out *anything* and they'd take it. No limit on the amount or the size of items. With the city trash service, I have one rolling cart (provided by them) and if I go over that I need to buy stickers from them and bag and sticker any extra trash.
Edit: I also have a rolling cart for recycling (I don't have to sort) and they pick that up every other week
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Post by blossoming on Oct 1, 2010 18:56:24 GMT -5
glowworm, i'll give you a quarter if you trade trash services with me.
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Post by glowworm on Oct 1, 2010 19:05:35 GMT -5
I guess it's better than none at all. But they're so picky! Like stretch, I have one rolling cart that I can fill, but that's the limit unless I call ahead.
Once, they didn't pick up my trash. I thought I had forgotten to pay them. Nope, I had a credit on my account. So I dragged the trash back in, stored it, then dragged it back out for the next time. And again, they didn't pick it up. Man, I was mad. Then I saw a little note on it from the trash people. They could see a branch with leaves on it peeking out from under the lid. And it is Against The Rules to have yard waste mixed in with your regular trash. Yard waste is to be bundled or bagged and placed next to the rolling cart. Ugh. I'm surprised they didn't come and mark me with a scarlet 'Y' for Yard Waste. Anyway I had to pick through that nasty trash to take out all of the branches, cut them into smaller pieces, bag them, and drag them to the curb. Then, and only then, would they pick up my stuff. They have also been known to pick through my recycling and leave items in the bin if they don't think they're recyclable. So frustrating. Things like a glass bottle with the lid still on it is not recyclable, in their eyes.
There are days when I'm tempted to put a big old fire pit in my front yard and just burn all of it. One of the officers of the homeowner association lives across the street from me so I can only imagine how that would go over, but I can still dream.
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Post by blossoming on Oct 1, 2010 19:10:10 GMT -5
. well, on those days, i'll let you sneak over here with me in hte middle of nowhere. by the time they find you, you'll be all done
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Post by messymimi on Oct 1, 2010 19:11:48 GMT -5
I know that I am very, very blessed where I live with the large trash bin picked up twice a week, the recycling bin picked up once a week, and other garbage (including up to 4 tires and one large appliance per year, and yard waste) picked up every week as well. We even have several charities that come through regularly to pick up donations, and bins to toss donations into all over town (some of them right outside the entrance to my neighborhood).
I am amazed at the brave people who declutter and clean and maintain without any pick up at all, they are amazing to me.
messymimi
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Post by blossoming on Oct 1, 2010 19:13:34 GMT -5
you're a peach mimi
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Post by stretch on Oct 1, 2010 19:36:40 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, glowworm! I've only been in my new place for a month and I've already gotten a note from the trash guys. They didn't pick up because there was a vehicle parked too close to the cart. It wasn't my vehicle and it wasn't there when I rolled the cart out! Grrrrr.
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Post by BetsyMarie on Oct 1, 2010 20:06:59 GMT -5
Weekly for garbage and green waste. All human residences MUST have trash pick up by law. The minimum is 2 cans, and one of those must be green waste. City provides the cans.
We can add as many cans as we want at the cost of $5/month for each added can. So basically that's a cost of about $1/can per week. I dont remember what the basic service fee is.
Curb-side Recycling pickup is once every two weeks, but that is 'free' and unlimited. We have the equal of 4 cans, but can ask for more at no charge. We dont have to sort recycling, and the only thing we cant toss in is styrofoam and plastic bags and a couple other things. Not having to sort really helps.
We have no 'garbage' police who fine people for making mistakes. At least I've never heard of any.
When I was a kid, trash burning in backyards was allowed on Wed and Saturday. You could see the plumes of smoke around the area. Now that's illegal for everyone. Ranches must get permits to burn tree branches, etc, but can't burn garbage. There is wildfire danger here.
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Post by cleanchallenged on Oct 1, 2010 20:10:31 GMT -5
My trash gets picked up every Tuesday Morning at about 5 am.
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Post by eagle on Oct 1, 2010 21:02:02 GMT -5
I have never had 'government trash service' anywhere I have lived.
Well, maybe the annual city-wide pick-up of whatever we choose to put out on the curbs was/is paid for or subsidised by city funds. I'm not sure about that, though.
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Post by luckyleprechaun on Oct 1, 2010 21:24:14 GMT -5
I have had two different situations...first the current...I have a dumpster right behind my house...it is labeled yard waste...however we put our trash in it and it gets picked up...there is also a large rolling can that is red that says yard waste behind my house. There are other dumpsters down the alley behind other houses...some say yard waste only and others nothing...they are operated by my city which did this free from city taxes of one percent of income until june when they made a new law to charge $11 per house for trash and it is attached to the water billing...since every house has its own water meter. oh they pick up twice a week. once a month large items are picked up from the alleys. I have my old chase lounger out there right now and today was the first of the month...they did not pick it up today but next tuesday it better be gone or I call city hall about it.
the place I moved from had pick up once weekly and you had to either rent a can or buy your own....if you had yard waste you could do one of these things...you had to pay extra for yard waste buying a rented yard waste container from them for yearly fees.. or bundle it in twine and put a sticker on it that you paid for...or put it in a container with one of those stickers on it. they billed you for your trash pick up by three months....for large items you called and they picked up most stuff unless it was too heavy...
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Post by toomuchstuph on Oct 1, 2010 22:26:19 GMT -5
Interesting topic Blossoming!
We have three large wheeled bins that are picked up weekly. One is regular trash, one is recyclables and the third is green waste. We pay only for the trash. We've downsized to the smallest possible trash can for environmental and cost reasons. I prefer to recycle whenever possible (I think pretty much EVERYONE here does) and thankfully my municipality makes it easy.
For the cost factor, we pay $20/month for the smallest available trash can (20 gal). The 32 gal (about the size of a galvanized metal can) would be $34/month. The upside is that we can get the largest recycle/green bins (64 gal) at no charge. So EVERYTHING recyclable gets recycled!
The one area where they don't make it easy is polystyrene/styrofoam. That either has to go in the trash or to a special recycle place. Packing peanuts are no problem - most mailing houses take those. Sheets of styrofoam that come with computers/furniture etc are a totally different issue. We ended up with a huge stack of that after stockpiling for a couple years until we found a place nearby to take it. Many places would take "commercial shipments" (cut/tied/baled etc) but residential loads they didn't want. I didn't want to throw it in the landfill - and I also didn't want to pay an additional $15/month for the priviledge of throwing it in the trash!
If I didn't have convenient inexpensive recycle solutions available to me, I would probably be one who let it stack up getting ready to go somewhere else and could see it being a real problem.
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Post by blossoming on Oct 1, 2010 23:42:19 GMT -5
by government trash i mean something that is created and run by a city, etc. and is often paid as sewage, water and trash at once. it is a reasonable price and something that would be very hard to get disconeccted from. i've ony lived in one house that had it and the price was very fair. i can't even remeber it was so small. when i've had private trash, you had to pay two months up front to even get teh service, pay for a trash can yourself, plus it was way more expensive.
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