Road being used as makeshift dump

[Mike Costello]

Thanks for the tip on the tire serials. I did not know that! Yes, I have picked up a number of tires and disposed of them. I will do a further Google search and learn more about the serial number system. Hopefully, there's a way to track the slobs down, next time.

Tire serial numbers won't help you identify the illegal dumpers. All the serial numbers give you is the tire manufacurer and the date the tire was built. The fact that the serial numbers had been removed with a tire knife indicate that the tires were dumped by a tire store trying to get rid of their junk tires.
The reason they cut the serial numbers is they don't want sombody trying to get a tire adjustment out of an already adjusted tire. The bad part of all this is that the customer already paid a tire disposal fee for proper handling of the junk tires and the tire shop didn't do its job.

 

[LBrown59]

LB, I feel your pain on this dumping and littering issue, but I think the suggestion to return trash to the fast food merchant is just wrong. There is nothing that merchant can do to make their customers responsible and reduce littering. I clearly put that responsibility on the head of the person doing the littering. I'd like to draw an analogy. Would you say that if a person dumped a couch you would like to return that couch and drop it at the front door of the furniture store? I don't think so. Sure, there are far more bags and drink cups littering our roads, but I don't think we can blame the merchant. They have no magic lens to look through to identify which customers will litter. Just my opinion. . . and you have every right to your opinion even if it is different from mine.

Yeah I know but it's still tempting.

 

[LBrown59]

People can be disgusting creatures. Nothing sickens me more than being out on a nice country road (usually fishing)and finding someones truckload of crap. A road near home was used as a dump. The county dump came in and cleaned it up. Signs were posted warning that the area was being monitored. Now that the road is passable by cop cars, the dumps are gone and havent come back. Knock on wood.

In the county, we get a spring and fall cleanup pass to take a load to the dump for free. You can haul under 110KG to the dump at any time for free.

If your hauling more than 110 KG you pay $55 a tonne for regular garbage or around $40 ? for C&D. All regular garbage must be separated for sorting.

1*By the sound of some of the posts here, there are places without mandatory garbage pickup. I can only imagine the mess around the dirtballs places who refuse pickup. Where does that garbage go? Burned or burried on their or someone elses property? I can't fathom this being allowed, it sounds like an environmental disaster.

2* ...."Trucker Bombs"

1*I'm not a fan of mandatory garbage pickup usually due to how it's administered.
It's caused me to loose trash pick up twice by driving my haulers out of business.
It's caused me to have to pay for trash pick up at another property where little or no trash was being generated and what little there might have been occasionally I was taking care of my self.
On top of that it was forcing me to support the trash hauler that was driving my hauler out of business.
2*Excuse my ignorance but what is Trucker Bombs ?
I don't recall ever hearing the term .

 

[Scooby074]

1*I'm not a fan of mandatory garbage pickup usually due to how it's administered.
It's caused me to loose trash pick up twice by driving my haulers out of business.
It's caused me to have to pay for trash pick up at another property where little or no trash was being generated and what little there might have been occasionally I was taking care of my self.
On top of that it was forcing me to support the trash hauler that was driving my hauler out of business.
2*Excuse my ignorance but what is Trucker Bombs ?
I don't recall ever hearing the term .

Im curious about your #1. How did you "lose trash pickup"? Our pickup is bid under contract (5 yr???), and handled by" waste management", before that it was BFI. Its built in to our taxes, no "opt out". Is your garbage being picked up by small time contractors? If so, your region should bid it more carefully to exclude the fly by nighters.

When you say "take care it your self", i hope your not referring to burning. Thats just as bad (or worse) then throwing it along a road. Thats exactly what mandatory pickup eliminates.

If everybody "took care of it themselves" it would be a heck of a mess. We'd be swimming in garbage and pretty nasty smoke.

Trucker bombs are windshield washer/antifreeze/pop containers filled with urine that truckers throw on the road because they're in too much of a hurry to stop and take a pee like the rest of us. Thoroughly disgusting. Imagine being the guys mowing the ROW when they hit one of those things thats been baking in the sun for a month.

 

[LBrown59]

I'm curious about your
1* #1. How did you "lose trash pickup"? Our pickup is bid under contract (5 yr???), and handled by" waste management", before that it was BFI.
2*It's built in to our taxes, no "opt out".
3*Is your garbage being picked up by small time contractors? If so, your region should bid it more carefully to exclude the fly by nighters.
4*When you say "take care it your self", I hope your not referring to burning. That's just as bad (or worse) then throwing it along a road. That's exactly what mandatory pickup eliminates.

1*Forced trash pick up drove out the competition and left a monopoly of only 1 hauler.
Unfortunately both times it happened my trash hauler was one of the companies forced out of business.
2*One of my pet peeves about mandatory trash service.
Stifles competion - eliminates choice.
3*No always involved out fits such as [ waste management BFI Rumpke etc.]
4*No I live 2 miles out side the city
Had service with Rumpkie at the time .
Owned a vacant garage apartment just inside the city limits 2.3 miles from my home.
Just used the garage to winter a couple of my pick ups in and work on my vehicles as required
Needed a little water occasionally but to get the water turned on I had to sign up for trash pick up with the cities trash hauler which was BFI at that time I think .
Didn't make sense to have to pay BFI when I was already paying Rumpkie to haul my trash.
It probably took 3 months for me to fill up a 30 gallon trash can at the garage.
Paying 2 trash haulers was a pretty hefty sum to be paying for such a small infrequent amount of trash.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Im curious about your #1. How did you "lose trash pickup"? Our pickup is bid under contract (5 yr???), and handled by" waste management", before that it was BFI. Its built in to our taxes, no "opt out". Is your garbage being picked up by small time contractors? If so, your region should bid it more carefully to exclude the fly by nighters.

If everybody "took care of it themselves" it would be a heck of a mess. We'd be swimming in garbage and pretty nasty smoke.
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My area has very decent prices on trash pickup due to competition. Small local companies are not "fly by nighters", around here the small local companies have been in business much much longer than the large WM and BFI's, because they actually provide good service at reasonable prices. I contract out my trash pickup, but I can chose not to have trash pickup and take it myself to the dump. I don't need nor want the local government telling me who to contract with. The large companies are always trying to get non competitive long term contracts, they can't compete otherwise. In my area the WM and BFI prices are outrages compared to the local companies.

 

[CurlyDave]

By the sound of some of the posts here, there are places without mandatory garbage pickup. I can only imagine the mess around the dirtballs places who refuse pickup. Where does that garbage go? Burned or burried on their or someone elses property? I can't fathom this being allowed, it sounds like an environmental disaster.

We don't have mandatory garbage pickup in the county, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

I don't see a lot of trash along the roads either. Must be our state bottle deposit. I have personally given up on returning bottles & cans. We have to take them back to a store that has an outside "reverse vending machine" you put the bottle/can in, it reads the bar code and when you are done it gives you a refund ticket you take into the store. They are programmed to reject anything not sold by that store, which is a PITA.

I tried twice last year to take bottles back. Both times I had to run a gauntlet of homeless guys just hanging around the machine waiting for the first one in line to put his bottles in at the rate of 1 every 2 or 3 minutes. I just gave my sack of empties to one of the bums. The second time the machine was out of order, so I left the sack for a bum to find. Now I collect them in a sack and when the sack gets full give them to someone asking for money by the side of the road.

I enjoy burning my trash in a burn barrel. No I don't believe in man-made global warming. Maybe it is getting warmer, maybe it isn't but it is due to solar variation, not carbon dioxide. I always say: "This is for you, Al Gore" when I light off the barrel.

 

[Cat_Driver]

There was this are that was used by dumpers till someone made some steel plated with welded spikes and buried them in the road with the points exposed where the dumpers would go.

After several obvious flat err I mean sliced beyond repair tires the dumping stopped because the dumpers never knew when or where the steel plates would appear.

Hmmm seems like word got around, been clean ever since.

 

[polo1665]

We have no mandatory trash pick-up in our area. There is also not a problem with wholesale dumping of household trash along the road. There IS a problem with people deciding to flip garbage out of the car window while zipping down the road at 60 MPH. Open the window and let the wind take it .... Poof .... its gone, just like magic.
I'm also a big believer that alot of the garbage comes from the wonderful garbage trucks that are picking it up to begin with. My can is laying on it's side about 95% of the time after being emptied and there is usually a little trash scattered about that needs picked up. Generally the truck is operated by one person anymore. Clamp a grapple around the can, pick it up, dump it in the truck, put it down, and drive to the next place. Anything that doesn't make it into the truck's bin blows on down the road, and if your can doesn't happen to land on its feet, its tough luck.
I will also burn cardboard or paper garbage. I don't burn plastic, it stinks too much.

Mark

 

[dmccarty]

Mandatory trash pickup stinks. We had to pay for it back in the city and it was horrible. They only good thing about the service is that they would empty garbage cans on the side or front of the house. What was bad about this was that they used big carts to dump hold the garbage from the cans. They would fill the carts to over flowing. Which meant we would have pieces of trash on our ground every trash day.

Since we BAGGED our trash the trash left on the ground was not ours but someone elses. And I got to pay for this "service." No way to opt out of the service either.

Another nearby city changed their pickup so that people had to drag the cans to the street. They raised the fees at the same time. The People were not happy to say the least.

Later,
Dan