Garbage/trash dumping

[Blade Breaker]

Hi,

A couple weeks ago the recycling roll off container that has been in the small town near where I live was not replaced after it was taken. I was told by some others that this happened in 3 other towns around us. The recycling company refuses to leave the containers in these towns because they were being filled with trash, garbage, tires, diapers, and who knows what else. Now that the recycling (free garbage can) has been taken away the amount of trash that is seen on the rural roads just out side of town is horrible. Just this weekend my kids and I picked up a whole bag full of rotten food and trash in our ditch.
My brother inlaw said in the town he used to live in having garbage service was required and was priced in with your water and electric service. This would probably solve this in our area but the people who get assistance for there utilities already this charge would fall back on tax payers again.

Any suggestions on what has been done other places to give the people who are dumping trash a place to go with it?

Thanks

 

[Jstpssng]

That's an age-old problem, especially in towns that charge for trash removal. The simple solution is to provide a place to get rid of it. My town has a truck which is accessible 24/7... we don't charge for white goods, tires or anything else.

 

[oosik]

I've seen small towns provide a large truck - like a dump truck - with roll-top cover and a set of stairs for access. I think the cost was picked up by the state.

 

[Western]

You could have a landfill 1 block from some folks and they'd still throw the trash in the street. I work on parking lots and you'd be amazed how some people will put their trash by the little trash "bins", or dump it behind the building.

I like what your guys' towns do, seems like a reasonable thing to supply a free dumping point though.

 

[Toyboy]

Anymore, people today are lazy and pigs. No matter what you do to help them, they'll look for the easy way out. Heck, I've seen large garbage bags sitting at the small rest area trash bins.
No matter where these kind of people drop off or throw their trash, it's gone, out of their hands and someone else's problem now. TV's, furniture, appliances and mattresses are the most disgusting dump offs you see most frequently along the roads.

Sorry for the rant!!

 

[MoKelly]

It is a problem that has been around forever. Seems to me if you can solve this issue the next project to take on is health care.

MoKelly

 

[square1]

A large city nearby has refuse service rolled in with property taxes. Every property is provided curb service w/ a roll out ~50 gallon can. Commercial property have to maintain a dumpster if the roll out can isn't big enough. Seems to be working for that area.

 

[powerpace]

Douglas County Oregon has the last FREE sanitary landfill on the West Coast. Nine locations in the county have manned dump stations to help unload. The people doing the unloading are individuals doing their public service for minor law breaking. There is also a crew that does roadside maintenance including picking up garbage. This crew works seven days a week. One crew also will cut brush in the right of ways. Some of the jail trustees also do off-site work at a building recycling retail store.

People still dump garbage and appliances on the roadside. White goods (appliances) can be sold to the local metal recycler for cash but they still dump on the roads and in the woods.

 

[QuasarZ]

Anymore, people today are lazy and pigs. No matter what you do to help them, they'll look for the easy way out. Heck, I've seen large garbage bags sitting at the small rest area trash bins.
No matter where these kind of people drop off or throw their trash, it's gone, out of their hands and someone else's problem now. TV's, furniture, appliances and mattresses are the most disgusting dump offs you see most frequently along the roads.

Sorry for the rant!!

You nailed it. "It is out of my hands, and not my problem anymore." Everyone wants handouts and stuff for free. No more work ethic.

 

[jerrybob]

Rode up a logging road yesterday......saw a refrigerator, old camper top, couple old PCs, a recliner, a couch, several plastic bags full of trash, a bunch of old soccer balls, old pots and pans, a bunch of old clothes and a old bar b q. The people dumping this stuff are the same pigs that ask why they are locking all the gates.

 

[timster2]

If the local authorities provide a place to dump trash most people will use the facility. If none is provided they are going to get rid of their trash one way or the other. Some will do the right thing and pay for collection others will throw it out the window of the car or dump it down a secluded road. Currently with the price of scrap steel anything that is recyclable is snatched up off the curb before the regular collection truck comes around. You would think that some kind of enforcement of dumping laws would help, however, law enforcement has enough to do and rarely will write a summons for dumping.

I know that it is a regular routine to give my road frontage the once over before I mow because there will always be bottles and cans I don't want to hit with the mower.

 

[dave1949]

It's a problem in rural Maine for sure.

There is an annual clean-up day where volunteers work with wardens and foresters around the state to pickup trash that is illegally dumped. They gather many tons but it is a small effort compared to the scope of the problem, and the locations that were picked up get more trash dumped on them soon after.

I agree it is lazy people who are just getting off their hands. Areas that do not have a recycling center or dump facility are basically expecting people to be self-regulating. We know how well that works at all levels and sectors of society. Failure is to be expected I think.

As a rural resident, I would rather see disposal costs included in property taxes than paying for my own trash disposal plus picking up after others at my own expense too.

My only advice, maddening as it may be, is to pick up trash promptly because I think trash begets more trash.

 

[dmccarty]

Back in the 90's I used to drive by a trailer that sat in the woods. The woods behind the trailer where filled with white trash bags. The slobs/idiots/Lazy Twits would walk out the back of the trailer and place the white bag full of trash in the woods. They would not pile up the trash bags but deposit them through out the woods. :confused3::shocked:

They only thing good about it was that they kept their scat on their land....

At the time, the county had trash collection centers that required not id or cost to dump, so there was not excuse for not taking the trash to the dump. Eventually, the county had to send out stickers to residents to prevent people from neighboring counties, who charge lots of money to dump and have stupid dumping requirements, from using our facilities. After the stickers were implemented the amount of trash fell a pretty big amount.

Anyway, eventually, that lot got cleaned up. I don't know if the people were renting and got kicked out or if the county got involved but the trash was cleaned up.

But people are stupid too. Before the stickers were implemented, I found where some idiots had driven a tractor down a road then down a property line to dump some yard waste. They spent more time illegally dumping the trash then it would have taken them to dispose of it correctly. The nearest collection site is in town near the only two grocery stores. The people who did the dumping HAVE to shop in one of those two stores. Even if they do not, they spent more time driving down a road and through the woods to dump on someone else's land than going to the collection center.

Later,
Dan

 

[Jstpssng]

It's a problem in rural Maine for sure.

There is an annual clean-up day where volunteers work with wardens and foresters around the state to pickup trash that is illegally dumped. They gather many tons but it is a small effort compared to the scope of the problem, and the locations that were picked up get more trash dumped on them soon after.

I agree it is lazy people who are just getting off their hands. Areas that do not have a recycling center or dump facility are basically expecting people to be self-regulating. We know how well that works at all levels and sectors of society. Failure is to be expected I think.

As a rural resident, I would rather see disposal costs included in property taxes than paying for my own trash disposal plus picking up after others at my own expense too.

My only advice, maddening as it may be, is to pick up trash promptly because I think trash begets more trash.

So true. We have found though, that a forest ranger is the best person to deal with this. If he can find a name he will return their property and reward them with a summons.

 

[JRobyn]

Back in the 90's I used to drive by a trailer that sat in the woods. The woods behind the trailer where filled with white trash bags. The slobs/idiots/Lazy Twits would walk out the back of the trailer and place the white bag full of trash in the woods. They would not pile up the trash bags but deposit them through out the woods. :confused3::shocked:

......

Similar news story recently in Nashville after floodwaters washed trashbags downstream and onto numerous other properties. IIRC, the county, then the state got involved and forced the landowners to pick up all trash and also fined them a hefty amount. It involved many hundreds of trashbags containing tons of trash, dating back for many years.

- Jay

 

[weedpharma]

This all tells me that it is not only some of my countrymen that are pigs. I have been a member of Keep Australia Beautiful for many years and have adopted a number of roadside rest areas to keep clean.

It never ceases to amaze me that people are prepared to just dump their rubbish in the bush even if there is a bin within 10 steps. What is worse is that they throw it into the bush rather than just leave it on the edge to enable easy cleanup.

I now carry rubbish bags in my car and do regular collections. I just wish there was no need to do so.

Weedpharma

 

[radioman]

here in my town they have a "contract" with a local garbage company to have a roll off recycling bin that has locks on it and its locked for 6 days for the week. On sat mornings only the residences can drop off there recycles there for free. they also have a scale and garbage bins for those who needs to drop off trash as well for 12 cents a lb.

 

[brokenknee]

Pay $80 a year on our property taxes. There are dumpsters located throughout the county. For building debris, white goods tires etc. there is a dump site that is monitored and open three days a week for about four hour when open. Construction and lawn debris is free to dump, but must pay two dollars for tires and five dollars for white goods.

As far as people dumping were ever; it will even happen when its free. The property I purchase a little over three years ago seemed to use it as their own dump. I have hauled over fifty tires to the dump and still finding more. finally dug out an old furnace and stove out of the woods and brought that to the dump. I told the wife I hope to live long enough to have the property cleaned up. I even purchased a dump trailer to help in the effort.

The up side is some scrap metal.