Burning trash

[RCannon]

Anyone here burn all their trash?

I get a weekly pick up of my trash 2-3 bags /week, but I have 2 neighbors who burn all of theirs. Now to compare to them, each neighbor is very similar to us... 2 people, we have three dogs.
1st neighbor..him and his wife 80y/o very little company
2nd neighbor..him, wife, 2 dogs, 5 horses, goats, grandkids older adults visiting every week sometimes staying there.

How do you get rid of the stuff that doesn't burn?

 

[Ken_f]

We burn ours too. Its just my wife and me but we are always amazed at the quantity of stuff that you can produce.

The county / township are now charging $80 a quarter for trash pickup. No way am I going to pay that !!

We compost the food, recycle the cans / bottles with a neighbor in her recycle bin. The heavy scraps of metal and such from doing stuff around the farm get buried or taken to the dump (free).

I burn everything else. With clearing acres of brush I usually have a good base built up so the trash added to it really does not matter.

Its probably 50/50 around here.. I see fires burning all of the time at farms / yards

 

[SPIKER]

I see a lot of different ways wround here:

I burn the paper/trash and recycle the alum cans & glass free by dumping it at locall pickup (I don't get paid for it but probably could it is a free community recycle program with dumpsters for each of several items) what is left is pretty much ash only. I will someday have an outside wood burner where a lot of the stuff can be used as fuel to heat water & fire starting. the compostables go straight to the garden. like others that 60/month for rural trash picjup is too much. the city trash we have also is getting to 45/mo now...

though burning is getting harder and harder to get away with without having proper containment vessels such as an incineraator... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Mark M

 

[ByronBob]

We have a town dump. Bags are $1.50 each. Recycled materials are free. Tires, batteries, propane tanks and such have a fee.
I burn the paper and normally run to the dump each week with something.

 

[Golfgar4]

We have a city/county landfill, with weekly curbside trash pickup within the city and every other week recycling pick-up. No burning allowed within city limits. No charge to take to landfill for residents up to 60 gallons (still haven't figured out how they know you've got 60 gallons of non liquid material /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif). Out of town residents pay a fee and residents that exceed the maximum load pay, although I'm not sure how much it is. Don't know how much the curbside pickup service would cost as it's part of the services the local government provides.

 

[RobertN]

Around here, you can not burn trash. You can have a burn pile, but it can only consist of "yard debrie", ie leaves, tree trimming, ect.

Our neighbor got nailed last spring. He was burning some yard debri, with a lot of construction debri mixed in. Stunk the whole neighborhood up. Someone called on him. I think he thought I did it, as a ex-firefighter, but it was someone else.

Our area has garbage collection service.

 

[bczoom]

I burn paper products (except newspapers).

Aluminum cans go to the neighbor kid up the road.
All other recyclable items get picked up every other week.

The rest goes in the trash for collection. Around here, there is no town/city collection. You pick a company and pay them directly. Mine is $39/quarter. They'll take anything I leave out there.

 

[MMM]

Short 1.5mi trip to parish (county) dumpster. They are spaced about every 5mi, more numerous around communities and towns. They empty them twice weekly. It's free and you don't see illegal dump piles or much road trash. They have the chain gang out on litter patrol constantly also. The word is out on breaking the law 'round here. When they say hard labor, they mean it!

 

[JJT]

No, but many of my neighbors do. We recycle paper, glass, cardboard and plastic, it's picked up once a month. We pay for trash pickup, ($20/mo for 1 can/week), because the transfer station is 10 miles away and the hours don't mesh with our schedule.

We have a regulation against burning trash but it isn't enforced.

 

[turnkey4099]

I used to burn in a trash barrel with both ends cut out, burns cleanly after it gets going. Then the state started basically offering a bounty for citizens to rat off trash burners. I now do only a couple burns a year.

We have mandatory trash service, pick up once per week. You pay whether or not you use it. I put out 1 can per week very fully packed. Usually manage to get it all in except for paper and cardboard. That I haul to town every few months to the recycle bins.

Harry K