Ever pick through someone's weekly trash?

[teejk]

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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Funny that when my wife is away we don't fill our container either. Huh...

 

[two_bit_score]

Funny that when my wife is away we don't fill our container either. Huh...

And I only wash one cup, plate, etc a day. Very little else. Dishwasher is never started.

 

[ultrarunner]

One of the units had 6 yard dumpster pick up 5x a week...

I changed it to twice a week and added a one 6 yard recyclable to the weekly schedule.

Same with Sharps, Pathology and Pharmacological disposal...

When no one keeping tabs the answer is always larger containers and more frequent pickups.

I bet dollars to donuts if I was not there no one could be bothered to take charge and the disposal costs would mushroom quickly...

 

[teejk]

And I only wash one cup, plate, etc a day. Very little else. Dishwasher is never started.

You wash them? I look to see if a little rinse might suffice.

 

[Stimw]

I sold my last property a year ago.
It included a perfectly working 4 person Vita Spa on screened porch. I left the chemicals and test kit with it.
A former neighbor told me the buyers put it out to the curb!
I used to find lots of stuff until the economy tanked and brought out the buzzards that ride all night.
I did find a $900. Nova Airless Sprayer that took me 2 hours to clean but now works great!
Also a Poulan chainsaw that had water in the fuel.

 

[Bird]

Yes - unfortunately. Helped a couple find the wife's engagement ring. REALLY NOT that much fun. We did find the ring.

That reminds me of a time when I was a young patrolman in Dallas, and one night around midnight, I answered a call in an apartment complex. The lady was probably in her early '40s and said she'd lost a valuable ring. She'd been trying to decide where it might have gone and remembered taking if off and laying it by the sink when she was washing dishes. She said she then carried some trash out to the apartment's dumpster and thought there was a possibility that was where her ring was. But she'd gone out there and the "door" to the dumpster was about chest high on me, and it had lots and lots of garbage in it, so she said she couldn't get into the dumpster to look for the garbage bag she'd thrown away, and there were plenty of other bags that looked the same. I told her I didn't think I was going to able to help her, and she said, "If you'll just pick me up and put me in there, I'll search for it myself." She had her own flashlight, so I did pick her up and put her through that dumpster door, and was very much surprised when she found that ring. I guess it really was an expensive ring because she just almost insisted on giving me a reward, but I assured her that was not going to happen; that she didn't owe me anything.

 

[Bird]

I have set several things out at the edge of the street for our garbage men that have disappeared within an hour or less. Of course that was fine with me, but only once did a guy come to the door and ring the doorbell to ask if he could have a broken hose reel that I had put out there, and of course I told him he was welcome to it.

 

[Oaktree]

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.

Eek! Glad I don't live in Calif. Do bureaucrats stay up nights just thinking of ways to make life difficult?
Pray tell, why is a pizza box or bacon grease considered "yard waste" and what do they do with it?

Where I live if you want trash pickup you must use a private trash company...AFAIK no town within 50 miles of here has municipal pickup. We generate very little trash, maybe a 25lb cat food bag a month. Glass, #1 & #2 plastic, "tin" and aluminum cans, newspaper & cardboard go in the recycle bins at the transfer station. Anything burnable gets burned. Plastic bags/wrap gets put in a bin for that purpose at the supermarket. Food scraps get composted. Doesn't leave much else.
Admittedly, for city dwellers many of these aren't an option.

I think the wood is an EPA thing. Our dump will burn brush and (for some reason) pallets, but any lumber (painted or not) goes in the demolition bin. Attendant once told me that the state inspector will occasionally poke in the burn pile to make sure nothing unacceptable is in there.

 

[ultrarunner]

Used Pizza Box or kitchen Grease goes to Green Yard Waste for composting... but the grease has to be in a compostable container...

Generic Cardboard must be recycled... oil or grease stained cannot so it gets composted.

The problem is when the property owner is the responsible party and not the user... and since we have mandatory garbage, delinquent Waste Management Bills are paid by the city and a lien is placed against the property... it gets expensive fast.

Burning trash is citeable and even wood burning is barely tolerated and never when spare the air is declared like now...

Some could care less and others, especially seniors I know are always getting confused...

 

[Industrial Toys]

Here the bacon grease goes into washed out cans in the fridge. Then usually used to start a stubborn fire but mostly lately schmeared on stale rye bread for the wild critters to enjoy.

Back in the 80s, we used to go "cruising" around my Dads neighborhood on garbage night, looking for good finds for the farm house. My Dads GF for years was a diplomat with the Brazilian Consolate. (sp?) Red plates and all. Funy how she shopped at places (Holt Renfrew) that sold $80 T-Shirts (back in 82) but enjoyed this weekly ritual.

I guess if we ever got questioned we could have claimed diplomatic immunity, but man, her Boss would have been shocked at this behavior.