Rural Garbage Service Mandatory ..

[dbdartman]

Garbage pick up is not paid for in our taxes. We have a choice: $50/year to haul to the transfer station (no limits, recycle metal, glass, paper, oil & anti freeze, plus they take brush, again no limits) twice a week (Tue & Sat), or pay a private hauler. We haul. The transfer station is only 1 mile away.

 

[LBrown59]

When my neighbor burns his garbage, the prevailing wind sends the smell to our home.
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Oh: just suck it up and put up with it.
You said life ain't fair, Remember?!

 

[LBrown59]

WOW! TBNers like to Talk Trash.
half of a load.

In the city I paid way too much for trash pickup. It was in the water/sewer bill and I had to pay.
No cost at all.

The lady at the station recognizes me.

The station take trash, used

But people are pigs no matter ....
Later,
Dan

What a rip off :
I haven't seen anything good about forced trash service.
Any time I've come across it around here it's made matters worse not better.

 

[LBrown59]

1*Unfortunately, burn laws seldom have an effect on changing the behavior of people who only think about themselves.
2*They do, however, provide the necessary penalties for such miscreants who could care less about their neighbors, but will care about their own wallet.

1 & 2*
Why I'm against any arbitrary law that punishes / penalizes both the innocent and the guilty

 

[MikePA]

Why I'm against any arbitrary law that punishes / penalizes both the innocent and the guilty

I can hardly wait to hear how a law punishes the innocent. On second thought, nevermind.

 

[LBrown59]

If I could get a deal like this I'd jump on it.
When I was with the trash collector I was using I was paying them 256 bucks a year plus 15 dollars per large items like appliances and furniture.
I solved the 15 bucks per large item by setting them down by the road in my driveway and putting a free sigh on them

Garbage pick up is not paid for in our taxes. We have a choice: $50/year to haul to the transfer station (no limits, recycle metal, glass, paper, oil & anti freeze, plus they take brush, again no limits) twice a week (Tue & Sat), or pay a private hauler. We haul. The transfer station is only 1 mile away.

 

[ancientlake]

Where I live in rural PA, too often people move in from suburbs or cities to "get away from it all" but then object to the lack of the services they have been accustomed to. Garbage falls into this category. They want it to just "go away." They quicly begin to demand services and inevitably taxes rise, etc. etc. I'm perfectly happy with fewer services and less taxes. I recycle, and am careful about the packaging in the products I buy, and burn most of the rest. We maintain essential services such as fire and emergency on a volunteer basis. We don't need babysitting...

 

[turnkey4099]

$12 month, mandatory (I think, been paying it for 30 years), for 1 average size garbage can per week. Anything more I have to pay extra - rarely happens.

Garbage dump has high fees. Dumping my old shingles on a re-roof cost almost as much as the new shingles did.

Used to use a burn barrel for all burnables but that ended when the state started paying people to snitch off burn barrels (see below on that one!)

Now I recycle all paper, cardboard and tin cans at a drop-off in town. They don't take plastic or glass. No biggee to dop it off on one of my trips.

RE: burn barrels. They are really down on them. To the point that you cannot burn _anything_ in them. Last fall I had a batch of evergreen prunings - I could pile and burn them with no problem but "don't put 'em in a burn barrel"

Harry K

 

[hockeyhead]

In our township we have weekly trash pickup paid for by our taxes. They supply those large plastic dumpster style containers to be used with a one man garbage truck. They will pickup large items for free with a phone call and a special truck, but no tires and any fridge must be tagged that the freon has been removed and disposed of properly.
Once a year we also get to dump at the landfill for free.
They also supply recycling bins, but we don't do recyle.
We can burn year round but don't get caught generating black smoke, because first offense is $200.
The road I live on is about 1.25 miles long with 6 homes on it. At the end of the road is about .5 miles of woods on both sides of the road.
Every year 3 of us get our tractors and trucks down there to pick up the trash and junk that was dumped in the past year.
Then we divide it up between the 6 homes and we all call for a special pickup.
We've only caught one group dumping on our road in the past 9 years, they are sneaky bast$%ds

 

[txdon]

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

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?

Jim, I'd start off burning a few in the gully to see what they do. If they just fizzled that would be good, if they take off in an unwanted direction that would not be good.

When I say recycle: at the same place we dump they have a recycle building for cans, glass, aluminum, (but I sell mine at another place), old oil, and paper. The only thing they do not take is plastic. I did find a place in Bryan but the logistics is usually not good so that is usually the bulk of my 3 bags.