Garbage service....how often...how many cans....what limitations....ours is pretty basic
Locust Fork
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We have one of those large blue cans that the garbage company provides. It is almost always full when garbage day comes, which is Friday for our street, but NEVER can I remember when it was plum full on a Tuesday! So, we're anxiously waiting for the truck to run Friday when we can take it out and probably fill that can up again!
They will not get out of their truck to get the garbage here….so nothing that is outside the can gets picked up. They do NOT come and get limbs, leaves, or large rubbish here either. Being out in the country, we have always dealt with things ourselves….burning things, taking things to the dump and such.
Its amazing to me when I drive through the city and they'll have an entire house's contents just dumped out by the road….and they'll come get it like its no big deal. They'll have an entire ditch filled with things like a couch, mattresses, dressers, clothes, toys, junk galore. Its crazy.
I had an old metal bbq grill….the square kind that you burn briquettes in. I thought someone would take it if I put it by the road…if not to use, just to put in their scrap metal pile. Nobody grabbed it up, so I thought MAYBE the garbage guys would be kind and take it….nope. It lived by the road for a month before we finally tossed it behind the barn where it still lives.
I see people with three of the big cans like I've got and wonder just how they manage to need that many cans?
Cardboard boxes are a big problem sometimes for us. We get so many things online and its all delivered in STUPIDLY packed boxes. I keep a pile on the back porch and burn them every couple weeks. I wonder sometimes if there isn't a better way to deal with boxes.
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I thought Biden was in charge of garbage.😉
Our company is locally owned, veteran owned. He gives a discount to Vets. They have been great. They have even got out of the truck take your can from the driveway, dump it, and return it in the driveway, on days we forgot to put it out. They pick up once weekly. The fee is $72 every 3 months.
$48.00 every 3 months, extra is another $24 for 3 months
Rarley would need that.
Take the Card board (what we don't reuse) to recycle center in town
We don't have garbage service where we live. The county has 5 or 6 transfer stations scattered around that we have to haul our trash to. It's all paid for through our county taxes so there's no charge each time we go.
We place all our trash in a large locking toolbox that's a little ways from the house between dump runs. So far, we haven't had a bear try to get into it, but I'm sure that's gonna happen at some point.
We get a garbage bin and a recycle bin. The garbage one gets picked up every Friday, and the recycle every other Friday. We almost always fill the recycle one to the top. We can recycle all paper and cardboard, most plastic, and small pieces of metal. No glass. (Glass goes to special dumpsters in several places around town.)
On extra heavy weeks, if we watch close, we can refill a bin and get it to the other side of the street before the truck comes by that way. Or put some in the neighbors' bin. We all share that way. Extra bins are free for the asking. Pickup fees are included in the water bill.
Two yards max, five feet long max and less than fifty pounds.
We live in the country always had one trash service or another
Last one kept rasing prices I think it was 40.00 a month last time we paid . About s year ago then We started just recycling all the cans and glass and buying garbage bags for a few bucks that were official bags for the local collection place . the drop off point for the trash and the recycle items (recycle it's free )is about a mile up the road
We and our youngest son also make a run to the local transfer station I think it's averages 15.00 minum fee which is for a pickup load with just house hold trash
We also burn a lot of the paper trash along with tree and brush piles . The cardboard is recycled and cost nothing to throw in bins at the local 1 mile away pick up center as I wrote earlier
My oldest son tried to get for years to do what we're doing bit it use to be 15 pr 20.00 a month for trash pick up
they kept rasing cost the added trash container rent and fuel surcharge on top of that we just said no more like we did satlite tv many years ago
One bin every Thursday morning, you can get more from company if needed, I burn all that is organic, but they don't pick up anything outside the bin, original company had gotten up to 60 dollars and month then switch to a new one about two years ago and they are creeping up in price to about 42 a month now, they will take anything that is in the bin…
My sister lived in Richmond, Virginia. They tore some old carpet out and put it at the curb. The sanitation workers would not pick it up.
They drug it back to the stoop and put a for sale sign on it.
Next morning it was gone.
All paper products are burned in my outdoor wood stove. The chickens get most food products (you'd be surprised what a chicken will eat).
Folks save their old tires for a " tar far".
Every Wednesday, $25/month. They will pick up any and all bagged or boxed trash (no limit).
We have to haul our own trash.The county has transfer stations open 6 days a week from 7am till 7 pm.We can take most things but rock,brick,concrete,shingles or anything hazardous,like asbestos or certain chemicals have to go to the main landfill.There is no charge at the transfer stations.County tax and revenue from selling recyclables pay for everything.I think the county learned years ago that if you charge or give folks a hard time about what they can throw away, there will always be people that will throw their trash beside the road and the county will have to pay someone to clean it up and it will end up in the landfill anyway,
The county has 2 sites within 3 miles from our house which are free. They have a dump 25 min away that take 1000# of anything a month free. However, we pay $15 a month for 2 pick-ups (senior rate.)
Kasey, you'd be amazed what a $5 or now a $10 or maybe a 6-pack on the pile will do.
My county pretty much mirrors what buddy details . In addition ,my son has a large dumpster at his work he can carry a few bags to if we need to.
I put out garbage once every 3 months, recycle once a month. After Milton they emailed me all pickup back to normal so I put out the oak trimming. Drove by it. Called, we'll send them right back out.
Didn't,
Next Monday (They pick up yard waste on Monday) they drove by it again (30' long 4 f' high don't say you couldn't see it)
So, I cut it up and put it in the garbage, then recycle, then garbage again until it was gone. If they don't have to keep up their end of the deal they forfeit me keeping up mine
"Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
Otto von Bismarck
Ours is pretty cheap….only $35 every three months.
People complain about the garbage on the sides of the road thinking that people are tossing it out their car windows, but I think the majority of it is coming from the garbage trucks who use that arm to pick up the cans….fling them around….then sit them back down. People have loose garbage in their cans and it ends up flinging out in the process.
60 bucks every 3 months. It used to be $85 because we were paying an extra $25 for a recycling bin. After watching the guys empty both containers into the back of the same truck I decided to save the 25 bucks and just shove everything up into 1 bin. Bob