Ever pick through someone's weekly trash?

   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #51  
One of the dumps I go to actually has a 'Dump Store' which they operate and sell discarded items from loads brought in by customers who are paying them to get rid of it.

They are always busy every time I have been there.

TBS
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #52  
One of the dumps I go to actually has a 'Dump Store' which they operate and sell discarded items from loads brought in by customers who are paying them to get rid of it.

They are always busy every time I have been there.

TBS
You have just described "capitalism"!
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #54  
Unfortunately I do spend time picking though trash each week and hate it...

My city has mandatory recycling and at a minimum includes the following...

Landfill Waste
Household Recyclables
Green Garden Waste
Motor Oil Collection
Battery Collection.

Since it is mandatory any fines and service charges fall on the property owner.

Many are very careful to sort... some could care less... or less than less.

It got so bad at several locations I removed the Green Yard Waste containers because they always had "Commingled" trash mixed in... not that there isn't room for confusion.

A pizza box goes into yard waste... cardboard goes to recycle.

Wood goes to yard waste... painted or treated goes to landfill...

Plastics have to be of the acceptable kind to be recycled...

Bacon Grease most go into a cardboard container like a paper milk or juice container and goes to yard waste.

Bacon Grease is not allowed in a glass or metal container.

We do have garbage police but they go after the property owner and not the user...

Even poor Mom gets confused at times...

Put dirty diapers in the Yard Waste that I have to pull out and I take the container away forever... one warning and that is it.

It sure was a lot simpler being a residential property manager when I started...
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #55  
I know a guy who works at a dump...........he's never hungry.
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #56  
My property is on a private road out in the woods and I have ten or so neighbors on the same road. Most of those neighbors are city folks from downstate that use their homes up north as weekend base camps for all the idiot things they do (sorry almost went on a rant there).

We don't have garbage pickup service to the houses, rather there is a collection of garbage bins at the entrance to the private road along with all of our mailboxes.

On Sunday, when all the city folks leave to go back downstate, there is often a collection of stuff sitting next to the garbage bins that was too big to fit into the bins. I have picked up all sorts of stuff they think is garbage. Scrap steel pieces, chairs and other furniture, grills ans smokers I have scavenged parts from, wheels and engines from mowers...

It is amazing how the city folks live such consumable throwaway lives whereas up north we tend to try to reuse as much as we can. So what if part of our properties look like Sanford and Sons. It's like a badge of honor :)
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash?
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#57  
Someone else got them first but a number of years back someone beat me to some extra wide old boards (18"?) that were cast aside by the heirs to an estate. Looked like walnut and I later learned they were owned by the owner's grandfather so that would put them back into the 1800's. Rumor was he couldn't bear to use them because of the history.
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #58  
These days a business has to do everything they can to make it. Besides, isn't it worth a little bit to not have to dig it out of the trash and garbage?:D

TBS
Absolutely! That "one man's trash is another man's treasure" has been around for longer than me. A town I lived in decades ago was leading edge on recycling...bins for green glass, brown glass, clear glass, paper and plastic. Household trash went into the dumpster with a tag that cost $1 (having not much money at the time it forced me to minimize the number of bags that went into that dumpster but it didn't take long to get used to it). In the meantime scrap building materials were separated into wood and metal. The guy that ran the dump had first dibs but after that it was "help yourself". In reality it turned out to be a social gathering every Saturday. As a true capitalist I should have offered to open up a bar on the site.
 
   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #59  
My property is on a private road out in the woods and I have ten or so neighbors on the same road. Most of those neighbors are city folks from downstate that use their homes up north as weekend base camps for all the idiot things they do (sorry almost went on a rant there).

We don't have garbage pickup service to the houses, rather there is a collection of garbage bins at the entrance to the private road along with all of our mailboxes.

On Sunday, when all the city folks leave to go back downstate, there is often a collection of stuff sitting next to the garbage bins that was too big to fit into the bins. I have picked up all sorts of stuff they think is garbage. Scrap steel pieces, chairs and other furniture, grills ans smokers I have scavenged parts from, wheels and engines from mowers...

It is amazing how the city folks live such consumable throwaway lives whereas up north we tend to try to reuse as much as we can. So what if part of our properties look like Sanford and Sons. It's like a badge of honor :)

We only occasionally fill our trash can that is picked up every week. Sometimes, if my wife is not here, I don't even put it out for pick up. Now the recycle container is usually always filled and is put out every week.


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   / Ever pick through someone's weekly trash? #60  
Same here... could go with one pickup a month... 20 gallon landfill plus 64 Green and 64 Recycle...
 

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