Trashing The Planet (or at least one little corner of it)

[Gem99ultra]

I'm also fighting the same problem. Buried trash all over the place. What we thought was a fenced off garden before we bought this place has proven to be only one of many garbage dumps. We find broken glass, beer cans, old metal cabinets, even an old not empty propane tank, out in the woods.

Yes, I agree, much of the trash if due to simply lazy previous tenants. Perhaps some of it is due to them not having a garbage dump or trash pickup in the past. Never in my wildest dream would I have thought that they simply would use their property for a garbage dump. Oh how wrong I was!

Regardless, there's no reason that justifies people simply using the 'out of sight out of mind' mentality in regards to their garbage. I've spent a substantial amount of time and effort this past 8 years just cleaning up after those previous tenants. My opinion of them has gone from respectable prior owners to trashy people that I hope to never have reason to see again.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I love new owners. Back in the '70s I got two bug eye Sprites just for hauling them off. If I were younger, there's a pretty decent looking JD 4020 with good rubber for free, if I also haul off a junk travel trailer and a sporty looking car with no title, straight body, but neither the tractor nor car are in running condition. Take one, take them all. It's more of a project than I want to tackle at my age.

 

[herm0016]

We don't even have a lot of land. I have filled several 96 gallon trash carts with junk pulled out of the bushes on our single acre. foil wrappers, broken plastic bits, dog toys, mail, not even junk, just trash. its disgusting and has been a lot of work cleaning it up. It makes me wonder if the previous people just dumped whatever trash in the bushes to blow away eventually. We are also on a state highway, and I pick up trash from the roadside about once a week and get a couple handfuls.

 

[widefat]

We are also on a state highway, and I pick up trash from the roadside about once a week and get a couple handfuls.

Jeez, dont get me started on state road trash. We have ~800ft. A constant fight to keep it clean. No household garbage, it is all fast food and convenience store trash.
Everytime I clean it I have to ask forgiveness for what I wish upon my fellow man.

 

[k0ua]

The last place I bought was up near Willard, Mo. I didn't realize the next door neighbor which at one time had owned our property too, had run a bar in town. They hauled all the whiskey and mixer bottles to their property and dumped them. When heavy rains came the washed downhill to our property. They put the lids back on all of the bottles so they would float. I went up there one day with a few friends and a few hundred rounds of .22 and 12 gauge and we busted bottles for a couple of hours. But back on my land there were still hundreds half buried. And also hundreds of cans of Faultless Spray Starch. Finally managed to clean up much of it and buried the rest under tons of rock and earth. What a mess. Leveled it off and planted grass seed. Place sure looked a lot better when I left than when I got there. We put up a Brick BBQ grille and laid a gravel pad under the big shade trees. Constant mowing turned the place in to looking like a park. In fact, we had some trouble of people driving on to the property thinking it WAS a park. When asked "why are you here", they would reply: "well isn't this a public park?" Uh.. NO.

I hated to leave that place as we had made it look so nice. The shooting range, the creek and the "park" were really nice. We hosted many company picnics and events there for the companies we worked for.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Every so often there will be a thread here on TBN where someone asks how to get rid of a bunch of trash and someone will advise to dig a hole and bury it. Just don't. You never want to treat your land like a dump. You're going to have to deal with that trash someday, the cheapest it will ever be is to get a dumpster today and get rid of it.

When I bought my place there was an enormous pile of debris in the old cow pasture. I used the tractor forks to sort through it. Metal went to the scrapper, wood got burned, a lot of it had turned to dirt that I spread, and the rest went in a dumpster. The dumpster load was 7,000 lbs.

 

[CobyRupert]

Yeah, we live a little ways (30 seconds?) away from a convenience store.
"Only a loser would throw their spent scratch-off ticket out the window." - Literally! They're Losers!

$20 bucks out the window! - Literally! (well, sort of, it WAS worth $20)

I just can't imagine how they justify that 30 seconds of "Oh boy, this is fun, this could be it! Finally, I'm going to be ...ahh ******!" Toss out window.
$20 bucks for 30 seconds of entertainment! That's $2400 an hour. I can't think of anything that I, and know nobody who would, spend $2400/hr for entertainment.

 

[herm0016]

$20 bucks for 30 seconds of entertainment! That's $2400 an hour. I can't think of anything that I, and know nobody who would, spend $2400/hr for entertainment.

even the gentleman's club's provide better entertainment per hour pricing!!

 

[nybirdman]

We filled a tractor trailer roll off with junk and still didn't get it all from the farm.Common for the farmers to just dump excess/unusable anywhere.I did find some real old bottles that weren't broke.Farm dates back to the 1850's.

 

[k0ua]

We filled a tractor trailer roll off with junk and still didn't get it all from the farm.Common for the farmers to just dump excess/unusable anywhere.I did find some real old bottles that weren't broke.Farm dates back to the 1850's.

We took two pickup and two trailer loads to a metal recycle place in Springfield and actually earned a quite a few bucks in our Willard clean up.