Rural Garbage Service Mandatory ..

[txdon]

No charge.
I take my trash to town once a month. On the second Saturday of each month the county will unload your truck and/or trailer and throw it in one of their dumpsters. I recycle and burn, so I usually have only 3 bags a month.

The county is really clean. Why dump when the county will unload free every month?

 

[Ronbo]

I used to pay for twice a wk pickup. Then they started missing us. My wife had to call twice a wk for them to pick it up. The supervisor would come out and pick it up. They finally told us "well you're the only ones on that street". Her reply was does that mean that you don't want our money. We finally got fed up and now burn whatever our daughter doesn't recycle.

Ron

 

[Inspector507]

In our Township, you pay whether you take it out to the road or not. They have a contract with the refuse company and every household pays. So if I gotta pay, they're gonna pick it up

 

[blueriver]

I used to pay for twice a wk pickup. Then they started missing us. My wife had to call twice a wk for them to pick it up. The supervisor would come out and pick it up. They finally told us "well you're the only ones on that street". Her reply was does that mean that you don't want our money. We finally got fed up and now burn whatever our daughter doesn't recycle.

Ron

Garbage ... what worst? I have a weak stomach to begin with, those hot summer days, open that lid to the 55 gallon drum and I tell you I can do the "Second Hand Lion"

One time the company missed my pickup and the next morning the coyote's, dogs, coons and what have you had that spread out!! Nothing worst then taking it out of the barrels, going 600' plus to put it out and THEN the next day having to pick it all back up ... let me tell you, I addressed the subject with them and have yet to miss a pick up!!

 

[LBrown59]

1*I will add, that it is illegal as all get out to burn trash here.
2*Here our town has a private trash company pick up once a week, which is paid for through our property taxes.
3*Oh, and I used to live in a city that had the "pay as you throw" garbage system... You'd buy special bags at the store for $1 each for a 30 gal bag and they would haul it away.
4*we moved back to town 5 years ago, and now we pay $9.28 a month on our water bill for Waste Management to pick up the garbage once a week.
5* And these guys will just about take anything they can fit into the truck.
6*I pay a local company $16 a month and each and every week they pick it up ... GONE ... HISTORY ...

1*No burning laws are ridiculous
2*Now that's a real rip off as it cause some folks to pay for trash service when no trash is being picked up.
Another one almost as bad is where the trash bill is added to the water bill.
3*The best cheapest and fairest system there ever was.
Years ago we had this deal and the bags were only 50 cents each; and there was no limit on how many bags you could put out.
And they were not cheap flimsy bags either.
Since they've gotten away from this method it's now around 4 bucks a bag or can and they limit you to one can.
4*This is very unfair to people who don't generate much if any trash.
5*It Don't work that way here.
There is a Max limit of 1 can a week and I think each can over that is at least $1.00 per can.
Appliances furniture and other large items are a whopping $15.00 per item on top of the already high min charge.
To make matters worse they won't take TVs refrigerators freezers ac tires and the like.
By the time you take out the items they won't pick up there is nearly nothing left for them to pick up so you're paying them an outrages price for very little being picked up.
On top of the regular trash bill you also have to pay somebody else for disposing of the trash the garbage company refuses to pick up.
6* So was I but the problem I had with that was I only had a can every other week so I was paying twice as much for half as much trash as others.

== L B ==.

 

[kenmac]

In the town I live in it's not mandatory. I pay about $35.00 every 3 mo. for 1 time a week pick up. They pick anything I put out (except tires or batteries.) Whole trees, stumps, bagged leaves , etc,. Per state law, If the town makes it mandatory, those that can't afford to pay ( on fixed income ,etc,) the town has to pay

 

[rtdiggr]

Picked up by the municipality. In Ottawa they pick up garbage. It's paid for out of our property taxes. Paper is recycled in the "black box" every second week. Blue box is for recycling plastic and tin, picked up on alternate weeks.
At our country place they pick up a different array of recyclables. To get your garbage picked up you must buy a bag tag ($1) and put it on the bag.

Ditto in Southern Ont.

Shane

 

[LBrown59]

In the town I live in it's not mandatory. I pay about $35.00 every 3 mo. for 1 time a week pick up. They pick anything I put out (except tires or batteries.) Whole trees, stumps, bagged leaves , etc,. Per state law, If the town makes it mandatory, those that can't afford to pay ( on fixed income ,etc,) the town has to pay

What a deal !
If it was any better they'd be paying you!

 

[Skyco]

1*No burning laws are ridiculous

Well I have to vigorously disagree with that one

My yard has been caught on fire twice by careless neighbors not keeping tabs on their fire. Once the fire consumed a VW Beetle sized pile of pinestraw I had raked up for my dad across town. That kinda ticked me off, a lot of work for me and the stupid careless neighbor wasn't even apologetic.

I have another next door neighbor who is a firebug/pyromaniac apparently. He would burn something every week, mostly stinky yard debris. When he first moved in and started burning I offered to haul his yard trash off for him free of charge whenever he got a pile ready. NOPE he wants to burn it

I've had many, many pleasant days ruined by his errant smoke. Keep in mind some of us have reactive airways and smoke can be very irritating in a medical sense. I've had him fined twice for violating burning laws. He still doesn't get it.

But finally I have some relief, the county passed a burning ordinance a few months back that won't let him burn because his lot is only 1 acre and he can't meet setback requirements. I can burn because I have 2 acres, but I don't and won't. The neighborhood is mostly 2 acre with some 1 acre and some 4 acre lots. Keep in mind the county spends $40,000 a year in tax dollars putting out fires that someone was careless with and they got away from them. Hopefully the new ordinance will lessen that waste of tax dollars.

All this is in a county with FREE greenbox dropoff sites or $14 a month for weekly pickup.

 

[Rara Avis]

$31/mth...weekly trash pickup...weekly recycling pickup
one burn permit in spring
one burn permit in fall

free county dumping of metal/unpainted junk wood/oil/batteries/
free disposal of hazmat materials in non-commercial quantities
free appliance disposal twice a year
free tire disposal twice a year

Chittenden Solid Waste District

 

[MikePA]

Well I have to vigorously disagree with that one

I agree with everything you wrote. Anyone who has ever been down wind of someone burning their trash knows how inconsiderate this practice is.

We have a wide variety of weekly trash services. All are optional and include recycling. We can also buy additional bags at the township offices. Spring and Fall clean up days (haul to the Township offices) are also included.

Tag-a-Bag = $3.50 per tag
2 Bags/week = $44.25 per quarter
4 bags/week = $47.25 per quarter
8 Bags/week = $53.25 per quarter
Toter Service= $36.00 yearly to rent toter plus 4 bag service.

 

[LBrown59]

Well I have to vigorously disagree with that one

My yard has been caught on fire twice by careless neighbors not keeping tabs on their fire. Once the fire consumed a VW Beetle sized pile of pinestraw I had raked up for my dad across town. That kinda ticked me off, a lot of work for me and the stupid careless neighbor wasn't even apologetic.

Then crack down hard on the offender but don't paint everything with a broad bush by totally banning burning.

I'm against any burning regulation that doesn't specifically address a fire safety issue.​

 

[jinman]

No charge.
I take my trash to town once a month. On the second Saturday of each month the county will unload your truck and/or trailer and throw it in one of their dumpsters. I recycle and burn, so I usually have only 3 bags a month.

The county is really clean. Why dump when the county will unload free every month?

Don, when you say "recycle," do you mean other than aluminum cans? Plastic? Newspaper?

When I lived in town, they had a "show your water bill and dump" policy at the local dump. Still, weekly I'd see piles of trash and old furniture beside the road less than a mile from the dump. I guess that was from people out of the town or people who "lost" their water bill. The city also had a number you could call before placing furniture, appliances, and brush piles at the curb. They would make a special free pickup of those items in an appropriate vehicle. Furniture and brush normally was picked up by a dump truck. On one occasion I saw them using a city tractor to load it. Of course, that was less than 1/4 mile away from the city equipment garage. That might have had something to do with it.

Here in the country, burn ban or not, I am very cautious about burning trash. I have deep gullies to burn in, but when it's windy or dry, I refuse to take a chance. I normally only burn about twice per year or less. I've seen grasshoppers with their wings aflame fly several yards into dry grass when I was a kid. I can't get that picture out of my mind as to how easy it is to have a fire spread. I always also keep a charged garden hose handy to snuff any flames.

This last July 4th presented me with a situation I was not expecting and is still unresolved. I bought a huge firework as the grand finale to my annual show. Unfortunately, when it came time to set it off, it only fizzled and quit after the first couple of shells went off. July was a wet month here and the firework had gotten wet before I bought it. The connecting fuse between shells just would not burn. We were disappointed, but we had so much previously in the show that it wasn't a big thing.

The next day, I went back to the fireworks stand and they gave me a refund, but they didn't want anything to do with a partially exploded firework with over 100 unfired shells. How about the garbage company? Well...maybe not. I didn't want to be arrested for trying to blow up a garbage truck. Bury it?...I guess I could, but burying all that gunpowder made me nervous. Burn?...I wish! That's what was wrong with it in the first place. So my solution was to keep it until it dryed out and then burn it in a bonfire in my gully. I guess I could call the local volunteer fire department, but why let them have all the fun? So, this New Years Eve, I just may be havin' a small (or large) fireworks show in my gulley. Keepin' the thing around any longer is probably not the wisest thing to do. What do you think?

 

[LBrown59]

Where I lived from age 3 to age 24 there was a fairly large hollow beside the house which was our trash disposal.

I doubt that few if any people living way out in the boonies around here have or use a trash pick up service.
Everything is probably dumped in a hollow or buried out there.

The County does have a few problems with illegal dumping; but what can you expect when you create more refuse by banning burning and enacting strict mandatory trash collection laws that drive up disposal cost to where it's unaffordable for many?!

 

[Wayne County Hose]

No burning laws are not ridiculous. My personal and political belief is that you should be able to do as you please on your property, as long as you are not bothering or harming anyone else. When my neighbor burns his garbage, the prevailing wind sends the smell to our home. It is not fair to us to have to put up with that. Sometimes he will burn in the morning when we are not home, but sometimes he forgets and burns in the early evening. There are also many harmful chemicals produced by burning plastics and other related stuff. So, not only are my family bothered by the smell, but the planet has to pay for his laziness. There are no burning laws going into effect around here and I can't wait for more. Like I said, do as you wish, as long as you are not bothering or harming anyone else.

 

[MikePA]

No burning laws are not ridiculous. My personal and political belief is that you should be able to do as you please on your property, as long as you are not bothering or harming anyone else. When my neighbor burns his garbage, the prevailing wind sends the smell to our home. It is not fair to us to have to put up with that.

Some people do not understand the 'good neighbor' concept resulting in laws to control their abberrant, self centered behavior.

 

[Wayne County Hose]

1*No burning laws are ridiculous

Not if you live downwind of someone burning plastics and anything else they can stuff in a 55 gallon drum.

2*Now that's a real rip off as it cause some folks to pay for trash service when no trash is being picked up.

Should I have to pay tax on a highway I will never use?

4*This is very unfair to people who don't generate much if any trash.

Life isn't fair. Should my tax money go towards stuff I won't benefit from?

To make matters worse they won't take TVs refrigerators freezers ac tires and the like.

Do you have any idea what freon does to the atmosphere? Do you have any idea the chemicals in a cathode ray tube (tv) and in tires that leaches from the landfill into the ground water?

 

[Bird]

I guess there's a lot of our members who are too young to remember when "landfills" were unheard of, at least in the smaller towns. Whatever people didn't burn at their own home was hauled to the town "dump". And periodically the dump would be set on fire either on purpose or accidentally. No one thought about complaining about the smoke, odor, etc.

Now of course there were a number of really BIG differences between then and now:

1. Things such as much bigger population; more people generating garbage,
2. Different packaging
a. How many remember returnable milk bottles, beer bottles, soda bottles?
b. Pre-packaged meats with plastic and styrofoam instead of butcher paper,
c. Sugar, flour, and such in cloth sacks that were kept and used instead of paper to dispose of,
d. Paper grocery sacks instead of plastic.

And I'm sure you older folks can name lots of other examples.

 

[dmccarty]

WOW! TBNers like to Talk Trash.

After reading pages of Trash Talk its pretty obvious we got it good. We get a sticker to put in the vehicles, which means my truck, since I don't think the wifey has ever been to the transfer station. With the sticker you can go to the transfer station as often as you like. The sticker was implemented two years ago. Prior to that ANYONE could go to the dump for no charge. Thursday I took a half of a PU load to the transfer station. The load was the regular trash, plus the XMAS mess, and cleaning up the "barn." Friday I was cleaning up in the barn and took another half of a load.

No cost at all.

The lady at the station recognizes me.

The station take trash, used oil, and recycles magazines, bottles, cans, newspapers, etc. There are stations all over the county. Every few months the dump to our west has hazardous waste collection for paints, antifreeze, used oil, etc.

But people are pigs no matter where you live. In the county you don't have to have trash pickup but you can hire the service. We have a neighbor who does this and they use ONE can. We have three 64 gallon cans. They just throw trash into it until it overflows. And then stack more trash around the can. These people have loads of money and they walk once or twice a day. No reason they could not use TWO cans to keep the trash contained. So the trash gets blown all over the place. Here is the funny part. Given the prevailing winds the trash blows all over THEIR land. So they have to pick it up. You would think they would buy a second can....

The property to our west has been subdivided. They put in road and have cleared the lot lines. One of these lot lines intersects our land behind our house. I walked their line one day to check it out. The lot in question is 500-700 feet deep. Withing 100 feet of OUR property someone had driven in with and ATV or tractor and dumped trash. Right next to the their road someone had dumped two beat up but very large and heavy floor jacks. The county dump is 3-4 miles west of us and the transfer station is about the same distance to the east. EVERYONE has to go near the east station since its right behind the only two grocery stores within 15 miles. No excuse to dump. Just Stupid. It took them more time to dump the trash than to take it to the station.

We have had someone dump kitty litter, used of course, on our road. They had to pass the gate with the no tresspass signs to do it. I assume it was a teenage from the subdivision to our front. And it has not happened in awhile. But people out front used to dump yard waste on the land before we bought.

We don't have trash servce and don't want it. Its just too easy to go to the transfer station as required.

In the city I paid way too much for trash pickup. It was in the water/sewer bill and I had to pay. The garbage men where lazy and would drop trash all over the place. They never would pick up what they dropped. Our trash was always bagged so the trash they dropped was other peoples trash from their bins. I had to clean up behind them every Thursday. And I got to pay for the service.

Later,
Dan

 

[Skyco]

Some people do not understand the 'good neighbor' concept resulting in laws to control their abberrant, self centered behavior.

EXACTLY