Excessive Garbage/Waste removal fees...

[dmccarty]

DM

We have the cost 'built' into the tax base, and are charged for recyclables like washers and dryers etc.
I still have all kinds of trash dumped on the roadside.I don''t think there is any stopping that.

Does the trash collection site allow the drop off of appliances? Ours does. And it is easy. Well as easy as its going to get moving an appliance.

I don't think one can stop the people who dump trash. It can just be minimized. Making it easy helps but as I said, people will still dump, even though in the cases I mentioned they spent more time illegally dumping than it would have taken to go to the collection site.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

In my last suburban home I paid 40$ per month for weeekly pickup of 1 can not to exceed 50 lbs. ...

Even in the summer I do not find that the trash stinks, has excessive flies, or maggots. We don't get mice or rats either. I make great efforts to keep a clean trash can area and to keep the lids latched on.

Best I can remember we were paying 20-30$ a month for trash pickup back in the city. It was on the water/sewer bill. The trash men would just leave a mess almost every time they picked up. We always put out trash in a plastic bag, tied it shut and put in the garbage can. So all of the trash was what fell out of the garbage dumpster the trash men were using. I don't know if it passed but there was talk of limiting the number of cans and weight one could have picked up. AND you had to go to the curb. They would pick up on the side of the house or the curb but the city was going to require that the cans be taken to the curb.

If we leave the trash out for more than a week or two in the summer we get flies and maggots. Its a bit hot and humid in my area. I don't know how the flies get into the cans but they do. The cans are kept clean the and lids stay shut. Not like my neighbor who has one can and piles stuff all around it at the curb so it blows around the neighborhood. We have three 64 gallon cans. They have one. Very seldom do we need more than two cans to contain the garbage.

I don't mind taking the trash to the dump at all. For us we are lucky in that it is easy. No mess from trash men who could care less. Don't show up. And cost a fair amount of money. What we used to pay for trash, water, and sewage is about what we pay in power for nine months of the year.

Later,
Dan

 

[dooleysm]

I don't care what you do, diapers stink. It's tolerable at this time of year. It's a really nasty chore in the summer months! "The price of having fun," as my dad would say.

 

[dmccarty]

I don't care what you do, diapers stink. It's tolerable at this time of year. It's a really nasty chore in the summer months! "The price of having fun," as my dad would say.

Thankfully we are past the diaper stage!

But this year we had a very sick dog who could not control herself. She really tried but she pooped in the house at least once a day. Cleanup was in plastic grocery bags that we would tied shut. That stuff still stinks even in a tied bag. Especially in the summer.

At least when it started to stink I did not have to wait for garbage pick up day. Or exceeding my garbage limit.

Later,
Dan

 

[George2615]

When we bought our house in 1990 a local guy came once a week for our trash. He charged us about $20 every 3 months. Then he decided to retire and sold out to the big waste management company who promptly raised our rates to $68 every 3 months. That's when I got a dump sticker and have hauled my trash to the dump ever since. The past several years the dump has been raising its annual price for stickers but as of last years it was $125 for the year or just over $10 bucks a month. I'd hate to see what the waste hauler is charging these days.

 

[schmism]

we generate a very small amount of landfill-able trash. on the order of a bag a month.

I usually drop it at a neighbors or friend that has "city pickup" in exchange for a doz farm eggs or simular.

 

[firedog]

We pay 63.00 for 3 months, which equates to 4.85/week for twice a week pick up.
Plus we have two outfits to choose from.

 

[MarkV]

If your hauling to the dump a trash compactor can be a good investment for the kitchen. Compacts, bags and deodorizes into nice little sealed cubes.

MarkV

 

[Bird]

When cities started charging everyone to take anything into their landfill, the illegal dumping really increased. Corsicana, TX, had one Saturday a year on which you could dump free, and there would be pickups and trailers lined up down the side of the road for a half mile all morning. And in the west end of the county, people could go less than a quarter mile past our house and be out of sight of any homes and also where they could see any vehicles coming, so it always a huge garbage mess there. But there was an individual who picked up our garbage once a week for $12 a month in 2002 before we moved back to town.

Now in town, we have Waste Management picking up our garbage once a week for $9.77 a month on the water bill. I know some people, in some parts of the country, may have complaints about Waste Management, but not here. You can put your garbage out in cans and they'll empty them, you can use plastic bags (as we do), you can tie brush in 4' bundles, you can set appliances or furniture out there on the regular pickup day, etc. If two men can pick it up and put in the truck, they take it. And with proof of residence (drivers license and water bill), we can haul stuff to the landfill ourselves, free, if we wish. I've taken a pickup load of brush a few times when I pruned trees.

They did have some little green (18 gallon) boxes for recycling if you wanted to request one, but not too many people used them. So in February of this year, they delivered a nice 35 gallon recycling cart to every address in the city. Of course, it's still up to the individual as to whether you use it. It's picked up on the same day as the garbage; just by a different truck. And they show up every Monday, rain or shine, holiday or not, even on Christmas when it's on a Monday.

We definitely do use the recycling because they've now made it so easy, and we do not have to separate the stuff; just put it all in that cart. Each cart came with a 2 sided single sheet of instructions. One side tells about the program, pickup days, etc. while the top half of the other side lists items that can be recycled, and the bottom half lists items that must not be recycled. So we can just put "mixed residential paper", including junk mail, cans, glass, and plastic all in the same cart. Of course they go into more detail and provide a phone number if you have any questions.

I don't know how they could do anymore than that.

 

[dooleysm]

Since I graduated from college I've lived in an apartment where I had to take my trash to a community dumpster; in a house in a large town with curbside trash pickup paid for out of tax money, in a house in a small town where I had to arrange my own disposal (paid a guy for weekly curbside); and finally, out in the country with the situation I described above.

There's a whole lot more to trash removal than I ever realized growing up in a big city. All I knew was that we took our trash to the curb once a week in the morning and when I got home from school it was gone.