Is anyone besides me noticing an increase of trash on their property?

[RollingsFarms]

I'm noticing a big increase in trash being dumped on my land as well as the sides of the road in my area. Now, I've always had the occasional fool throw stuff out on my land every now and then but this is becoming a more frequent occurrence and it's making me irate! So far this week I've had two mattresses, tires, a sofa dumped on my land. I can never catch the people but I've about had it with this foolishness! I almost want to sell my farm and buy land where there's not a public road for miles around! I've stopped calling the cops because there's nothing they can do, I've tried to work something out with the county such as closing the public dirt road but they refuse even though I own all the land surrounding the road. I've started taking all the trash and dumping it on the counties land and I'll keep doing so. If I ever catch these people I will do my best to see them sent away and will press charges.

 

[BigCountry1689]

I have the same situation owning land on both side of the road except that it is designated private with 2 neighbors past me then a curve into the back of my property. I put up a camera at the gate that points down the rod so that I can record all that come and go. I live about 5 miles from the land fill and when people arrive late guess where they head. I caught a guy who worked for a plumbing company on the coast heading down to the back of my property, when I got back there he was throwing out old toilets into a pile of junk someone else threw out. I gave him the option as Florida has extremely strict property laws relating to agriculture to either pick up ALL the trash including what was dumped by some other schmuck or take the $1000 fine and jail........Of course it helped that I went down in my patrol truck I never saw somebody pick up trash so quick, it was spotless, he apologized and left. My county has the cheapest landfill charges so they like to travel here to get rid of there crap. I've have found the camera works the best I've turned the license plates and photos over to the AG deputy a couple times and he has paid them a visit.

 

[Deere Dude]

Our county charges every household $85 a year to keep it running. The county is ripe with hills, backroads and hidden roads but seem fairly clean. Maybe people understand they have to pay anyway so might as well take it there.

 

[mapper]

The problem is bad around here as well. I feel the county is at least partially to blame, the minimum dump fee at the county transfer facility is about $40. That is what I was charged to drop a hot water heater a few years back, and that was for putting it in the scrap metal pile! Our monthly trash and recycling fees are very reasonable, but when you have something too large for the trash bin it's going to cost you. I recently had an old recliner that took about 4 weeks to feed the pieces into the trash bin, I certainly was not about to pay through the nose to dump it whole
I think a lot of folks that are not as offended by dumping as I am just dump their junk in the ditch on a county road rather than pay the high dump fee. Some are just pigs who will dump stuff even if the dump was free:thumbdown:

 

[4570Man]

The local recycling center is free, but they don't take any flooring material, shingles, Sheetrock, liquid paint, and charge to take tires. What do they think people do with this crap. Most don't pay $40 a ton at the landfill. I wanted to freeze a gallon of paint and take it up there and say it wasn't liquid. I ended up putting it in a trash bag and throwing it out.

 

[two_bit_score]

No doubt dumping trash outright all the way to just throwing drink cups and fast food sacks out the window is getting worse.

I have a place that is several acres and backs up to a subdivision that was put in about 25 years ago. The back two thirds of the property that back up to several yards in the SD are heavily wooded. So the people who's yards back up to my woods can't see that people live at the front of the property. I don't live there but about twice a year I have to make a hike back there to check for dumping from the houses that back up to our place.

Wasn't too bad for a while after we let the adjacent householders know that we would contact them and ask if we should just throw their trash back over the fence or would they like to go pick it up. We did it real nice, of course. Took the wife and everything because she can come across really polite. And one never knows when it could be you on the other end needing some kind words.

Then about 10 lots were sold to the south side and houses were built and people built wood fences. It must be easier to throw junk over a wood fence that you can't see through like you can a barb wire fence. So, we had to start it all over again. This time we contacted one guy and told him that his kids old broke down toys, tricycle and baby chair that were 'missing' were right behind his fence on our property and would he like us to bring them around to his drive way to return them or would it be easier for him to just go get them. Even mentioned he might want to let the police know in case they were reported stolen that they had been found. He was very apologetic and even said, get this, that he just 'thought that was some old land locked property that nobody lived on'!

He could easily walk back there real easy because his next-door neighbor had not finished his fence yet and was still in the process of piling his brush over on our property. Finally got them all stopped but it's been a couple years since we had to check so that will probably be something I'll need to do this winter.

Just be glad you don't have a commercial dumpster that people think they have a right to use just because it's not overflowing all the time.



TBS

 

[two_bit_score]

The local recycling center is free, but they don't take any flooring material, shingles, Sheetrock, liquid paint, and charge to take tires. What do they think people do with this crap. Most don't pay $40 a ton at the landfill. I wanted to freeze a gallon of paint and take it up there and say it wasn't liquid. I ended up putting it in a trash bag and throwing it out.

I've heard of folks mixing enough kitty litter with paint and letting it set up outside long enough that it becomes a 'solid' and feeding it into the household trash. I think they said it helps to keep it broke up a lot in small pieces. :laughing:

TBS

 

[two_bit_score]

The problem is bad around here as well. I feel the county is at least partially to blame, the minimum dump fee at the county transfer facility is about $40. That is what I was charged to drop a hot water heater a few years back, and that was for putting it in the scrap metal pile! Our monthly trash and recycling fees are very reasonable, but when you have something too large for the trash bin it's going to cost you. I recently had an old recliner that took about 4 weeks to feed the pieces into the trash bin, I certainly was not about to pay through the nose to dump it whole
I think a lot of folks that are not as offended by dumping as I am just dump their junk in the ditch on a county road rather than pay the high dump fee. Some are just pigs who will dump stuff even if the dump was free:thumb down:

A saws-all might be a good investment for you.

TBS

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I'm noticing a big increase in trash being dumped on my land as well as the sides of the road in my area.

My place is looking much better since I started dumping on yours

Fortunately, my property is land-locked so there is no litter whatsoever. I did make the mistake of leasing to a neighbor to run his cattle for a few years. I later discovered he had started a remodeling business and was dumping all the debris on my property!

 

[4570Man]

I've heard of folks mixing enough kitty litter with paint and letting it set up outside long enough that it becomes a 'solid' and feeding it into the household trash. I think they said it helps to keep it broke up a lot in small pieces. :laughing: TBS

It's way less effort to put the sealed can in a black trash bag and dump it in a dumpster.

 

[two_bit_score]

It's way less effort to put the sealed can in a black trash bag and dump it in a dumpster.

You the :devil: !




TBS

 

[CADplans]

Have you considered a trail cam?
The police would enjoy those pics,,,,

 

[MossRoad]

When I was a kid, there was a dirt road behind our neighborhood that seemed to be the local dumping ground. My folks and some of the other neighbors would go down that road every few weeks, pick through the garbage bags until they found an address, then call the cops. The cops would make them come out and pick it up. They'd always fight it, saying they paid someone to haul it off. Cops would ask who they paid. It was always "some guy with a truck." Cops would tell them to remove it or get a littering ticket. It worked pretty well.

Doesn't work for large items with no I.D.

Game cam might help.

 

[Bird]

We've had a similar thread a long time ago, and I still think the cities made a mistake by charging everyone to dump in their landfills. I used to occasionally take trash to the Dallas landfill (and to Farmers Branch before that) when there was no charge. But then they all started charging different amounts, and people started looking for places they could just throw it out. When the police auto pound was part of my responsibilities, when I had city employees driving a marked City of Dallas pickup truck take trash to the cities own landfill, I had to send cash with them to pay to dump it.

 

[moeh1]

We've actually been getting better knock wood. I still get a bunch of beer and pop bottles along the part of the road frontage that is "wild". Fortunately our county has run a bunch of programs the last few years to turn in electronics, tires and chemicals/paint that stopped all that dumping. They take metal and propane tanks for free too.

 

[Wagtail]

We've had a similar thread a long time ago, and I still think the cities made a mistake by charging everyone to dump in their landfills. I used to occasionally take trash to the Dallas landfill (and to Farmers Branch before that) when there was no charge. But then they all started charging different amounts, and people started looking for places they could just throw it out. When the police auto pound was part of my responsibilities, when I had city employees driving a marked City of Dallas pickup truck take trash to the cities own landfill, I had to send cash with them to pay to dump it.

Similar situation down here. I pay an annual operational levy for the fact that there's a town 'tip'. I don't pay for weekly pick-up 'cause it's not offered out my way. Mind you, I don't need to make a run to the tip all that often either; maybe once every 3 weeks. Costs me $4 for a couple of wheely-bins.

But for the other objects, the prices are all over the shop: $5 per tyre, $0 for all metal, $4 per trailer/Ute-bed of green waste, $0 for paint cans or old oil... The worst offending price has to be for the 'green waste' (branches & leaves) as they simply mulch it and turn it into gardening chips or compost. Too often I see people hauling their green waste into the State Forest (my next door neighbour) and dumping it along the fire trails... which adds to the fuel-load of the forest if their were to be a bush-fire!

Other than that, I'm very clean in this area when it comes to 'trash'.

 

[JerryK]

Our Corwith Township is open every Saturday. They take 30 gallon trash bags for $ 1.50 each. Tires are free, but you can't be a business. Each spring they take just about all trash including stuff with Freon for free, but it is crowded, especially early. I usually do not have much, unless I am doing some cleanup in the barn, usually two to four bags a month. We also have county wide [ Otsego ] free recycling. FREE, in all cases, means that we pay for it thru our property taxes....

 

[wngsprd]

We have about the same amount of highway litter, seems beer bottles are the worst - maybe folks are afraid they'll break so throw them out...I mow a quarter mile of road frontage so always keep a couple of plastic grocery bags for clean up.

Dumping isn't a problem, and there is no excuse for it. Our county maintains several "convenience stations" where it is free for residents to dump trash in a large compactor. It has a large open container for large items, a separate one for used tires. It also has large recycling containers under shelters for used oil, antifreeze, paint, with shelves to place used batteries, or LP tanks. There are dumpsters for paper, cardboard, bottles and cans. There is a shelter for donating to Goodwill, and one for leaving something/taking something, often with furniture. Also has a little bus stop sized building for used books/magazine exchange.

The county brings wood it has shredded and offers it as free mulch. The site is fenced, gated at night, and manned when open...the employee runs the compactor, and stacks the cardboard to maximize volume in each container. They have even helped me unload large heavy objects from my trailer. The guy even "invented" some yellow jacket traps, and I have yet to see one this year in the open bottle/can dumpster, where they like the soda sugar.

Our real estate taxes are also the lowest by far in the metro area, so we are not getting socked there to pay for it...I really think we have smart, conservative management of our county.

 

[oosik]

The beginning of my driveway - where it connects to the county road - has a large pullout area. I've always had problems with people pulling into this area - parking, throwing out their cigarette butts and emptying their ash trays. I finally fell two large pine trees - drug them into the pullout area and solved the problem. Lord knows where these miserable slobs throw their butts and empty their ashtrays now!!

 

[MF283]

We live on a dead end road with 3 houses past us, wasn't to bad until one remarried with a bunch of teenagers, i'd just pickup their trash & throw it over on their property, no problem.
Fortunately, we have very little to no drive thru traffic & most turn around in our drive instead of going the other 1/4 mile where it would be a problem, being most folks can't drive in reverse, i've pulled a few out with my tractor or truck depending on how bad they stuck themselves.
The worse part is, the teens are only a couple hundred feet from their property, guess they figure the extra weight will cut down on gas mileage:confused3:

Ronnie