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.