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