Garbage/trash dumping

[timster2]

If the local authorities provide a place to dump trash most people will use the facility. If none is provided they are going to get rid of their trash one way or the other. Some will do the right thing and pay for collection others will throw it out the window of the car or dump it down a secluded road. Currently with the price of scrap steel anything that is recyclable is snatched up off the curb before the regular collection truck comes around. You would think that some kind of enforcement of dumping laws would help, however, law enforcement has enough to do and rarely will write a summons for dumping.

I know that it is a regular routine to give my road frontage the once over before I mow because there will always be bottles and cans I don't want to hit with the mower.

 

[dave1949]

It's a problem in rural Maine for sure.

There is an annual clean-up day where volunteers work with wardens and foresters around the state to pickup trash that is illegally dumped. They gather many tons but it is a small effort compared to the scope of the problem, and the locations that were picked up get more trash dumped on them soon after.

I agree it is lazy people who are just getting off their hands. Areas that do not have a recycling center or dump facility are basically expecting people to be self-regulating. We know how well that works at all levels and sectors of society. Failure is to be expected I think.

As a rural resident, I would rather see disposal costs included in property taxes than paying for my own trash disposal plus picking up after others at my own expense too.

My only advice, maddening as it may be, is to pick up trash promptly because I think trash begets more trash.

 

[dmccarty]

Back in the 90's I used to drive by a trailer that sat in the woods. The woods behind the trailer where filled with white trash bags. The slobs/idiots/Lazy Twits would walk out the back of the trailer and place the white bag full of trash in the woods. They would not pile up the trash bags but deposit them through out the woods. :confused3::shocked:

They only thing good about it was that they kept their scat on their land....

At the time, the county had trash collection centers that required not id or cost to dump, so there was not excuse for not taking the trash to the dump. Eventually, the county had to send out stickers to residents to prevent people from neighboring counties, who charge lots of money to dump and have stupid dumping requirements, from using our facilities. After the stickers were implemented the amount of trash fell a pretty big amount.

Anyway, eventually, that lot got cleaned up. I don't know if the people were renting and got kicked out or if the county got involved but the trash was cleaned up.

But people are stupid too. Before the stickers were implemented, I found where some idiots had driven a tractor down a road then down a property line to dump some yard waste. They spent more time illegally dumping the trash then it would have taken them to dispose of it correctly. The nearest collection site is in town near the only two grocery stores. The people who did the dumping HAVE to shop in one of those two stores. Even if they do not, they spent more time driving down a road and through the woods to dump on someone else's land than going to the collection center.

Later,
Dan

 

[Jstpssng]

It's a problem in rural Maine for sure.

There is an annual clean-up day where volunteers work with wardens and foresters around the state to pickup trash that is illegally dumped. They gather many tons but it is a small effort compared to the scope of the problem, and the locations that were picked up get more trash dumped on them soon after.

I agree it is lazy people who are just getting off their hands. Areas that do not have a recycling center or dump facility are basically expecting people to be self-regulating. We know how well that works at all levels and sectors of society. Failure is to be expected I think.

As a rural resident, I would rather see disposal costs included in property taxes than paying for my own trash disposal plus picking up after others at my own expense too.

My only advice, maddening as it may be, is to pick up trash promptly because I think trash begets more trash.

So true. We have found though, that a forest ranger is the best person to deal with this. If he can find a name he will return their property and reward them with a summons.

 

[JRobyn]

Back in the 90's I used to drive by a trailer that sat in the woods. The woods behind the trailer where filled with white trash bags. The slobs/idiots/Lazy Twits would walk out the back of the trailer and place the white bag full of trash in the woods. They would not pile up the trash bags but deposit them through out the woods. :confused3::shocked:

......

Similar news story recently in Nashville after floodwaters washed trashbags downstream and onto numerous other properties. IIRC, the county, then the state got involved and forced the landowners to pick up all trash and also fined them a hefty amount. It involved many hundreds of trashbags containing tons of trash, dating back for many years.

- Jay

 

[weedpharma]

This all tells me that it is not only some of my countrymen that are pigs. I have been a member of Keep Australia Beautiful for many years and have adopted a number of roadside rest areas to keep clean.

It never ceases to amaze me that people are prepared to just dump their rubbish in the bush even if there is a bin within 10 steps. What is worse is that they throw it into the bush rather than just leave it on the edge to enable easy cleanup.

I now carry rubbish bags in my car and do regular collections. I just wish there was no need to do so.

Weedpharma

 

[radioman]

here in my town they have a "contract" with a local garbage company to have a roll off recycling bin that has locks on it and its locked for 6 days for the week. On sat mornings only the residences can drop off there recycles there for free. they also have a scale and garbage bins for those who needs to drop off trash as well for 12 cents a lb.

 

[brokenknee]

Pay $80 a year on our property taxes. There are dumpsters located throughout the county. For building debris, white goods tires etc. there is a dump site that is monitored and open three days a week for about four hour when open. Construction and lawn debris is free to dump, but must pay two dollars for tires and five dollars for white goods.

As far as people dumping were ever; it will even happen when its free. The property I purchase a little over three years ago seemed to use it as their own dump. I have hauled over fifty tires to the dump and still finding more. finally dug out an old furnace and stove out of the woods and brought that to the dump. I told the wife I hope to live long enough to have the property cleaned up. I even purchased a dump trailer to help in the effort.

The up side is some scrap metal.

 

[nc redneck]

When I was a kid growing up here in NC every dead end dirt road was filled with trash for the last 1/2 mile or so. Old cars, washing machines you name it it was there. Great targets for BB guns and later 22.
I am not a big tax supporter at all, but believe " Free " trash dumping has helped clean up our state a bunch. You never see this type of thing anymore. Lazyasses still throw stuff out the windows of there cars all the time. I have one property that has about 1/2 mile of road frontage. I manage to pick up 1/2 bag of trash every 2 weeks during mowing season.
Old Saying " Poor People have Poor Ways "

 

[dave1949]

When I was a kid growing up here in NC every dead end dirt road was filled with trash for the last 1/2 mile or so. Old cars, washing machines you name it it was there. Great targets for BB guns and later 22.
I am not a big tax supporter at all, but believe " Free " trash dumping has helped clean up our state a bunch. You never see this type of thing anymore. Lazyasses still throw stuff out the windows of there cars all the time. I have one property that has about 1/2 mile of road frontage. I manage to pick up 1/2 bag of trash every 2 weeks during mowing season.
Old Saying " Poor People have Poor Ways "

Ain't it the truth. Rural Maine is getting poorer and trashier.

A house about 2 miles down the road from us was sold three years ago this summer. The house was nothing special, typical older two story wood frame, but would make a nice home for a family. The yard and house were always kept neat and freshly painted, there was a nice flag pole out front and always had a US flag flying.

The people who bought it have about completely trashed it. They scabbed on horse stalls to the attached garage and fenced in a small paddock. There are garbage bags of trash piling up along the edge of the yard--which gets no upkeep. They have 4-5 non-operating vehicles sitting here and there. There are bits and pieces of other stuff laying around. Of course they have an ATV and snow sled, but can't afford or be bothered to have their trash picked up. $19 per month private hauler goes by their house every Tuesday. I don't get it.