Is anyone besides me noticing an increase of trash on their property?

[sld]

Working in the garage one time I heard a bottle crash in the street. Turned to see that a guy had threw a bottle in a sack out his window and kept driving. I ran out there and scooped it up in a 5 gallon bucket and jumped in the truck. I followed him to his house and knocked on his door. When he answered I dumped out the bucket on his porch and said you must've dropped this and I thought I would bring it back to you.

His wife came to the door to see what was going on and all **** broke loose. He was a problem drinker and when she found out she went ballistic. I just picked up my bucket and got in the truck and left. Never did hear how it turned out.

 

[BigCountry1689]

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

Home Depot sells a chemical that comes in a bottle for coagulation of paint, you pour it in and in a day it is solid. My landfill is the same way, only $30 a ton minimum but the lady there is serious about her job, she will climb in your trailer.

 

[PILOON]

WE have the 3 bin collection plus large goods pick up monthly.
One problem is that the large goods excludes so much now that it is now a problem, no construction stuff, no fridges or freezers, stoves and hot water tanks OK. no tires no propane tanks.

Now we get fined if the bins are left in sight so we need to make 4 oneway trips for the bins weekly, OK when your house is mere feet from the street.

As a result all sorts of stuff gets left roadside

One smart thing they did do is place a recycle bin at all the community mailbox sites (for junk mail) but folks (pigs) are now tossing their trash in (often not) those bins simply to avoid the placing and retrieving the bins.
I recently opened the mail bin for a 'looksee' and saw spoiled food and other banned trash.

Making things worst is the fact that some trash trucks are open kind and they scatter paper goods all over the roadside as the driver is a 'one speed demon' (flat out).

We are seeing more and more 'banned trash' scattered everywhere, never at the 'donors' address however.

Onthe edge of my drive I have a fairly deep ditch and awoke to find 13 scrap tires dumped in the indentation.

 

[MossRoad]

Working in the garage one time I heard a bottle crash in the street. Turned to see that a guy had threw a bottle in a sack out his window and kept driving. I ran out there and scooped it up in a 5 gallon bucket and jumped in the truck. I followed him to his house and knocked on his door. When he answered I dumped out the bucket on his porch and said you must've dropped this and I thought I would bring it back to you.

His wife came to the door to see what was going on and all **** broke loose. He was a problem drinker and when she found out she went ballistic. I just picked up my bucket and got in the truck and left. Never did hear how it turned out.

That's a good way to get shot around here.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Lots of tires mostly when summers for winter swap tires or the other way,people don't want to pay for disposal,every now and than some knot head must clean out there basement/shed,which leads land owner to post there land.

Game cam might come in handy.

I have a dozen or so. When they go on sale I grab one or two. I've had a couple get taken. Oddly, none have been shot, which I expected to happen. I have a couple on my main drive that are very obvious and some that are quite well camouflaged.. And even a couple up trees pointing downward that would take a lot to remove. They had the effect I wanted. Less people coming on my land. Especially when I showed up at a neighbor's house with pictures of him trespassing. Word travels.

 

[roadhunter]

Believe it or not my little town works on the honors system. People in own have a rate and outside of city limits have a rate. It's strictly voluntary. The trash cans you can use are all over town including wal mart and safeway. Nobody actually checks to see if you have paid unless you go to the main location to dump scrap metal, tires, oil, wood, etc... and even then I'm Not sure they actually check as they never ask my name but probably know who I am by my vehicle (really small town).

This would not work in most places as many would simply not pay but continue to dump.