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

[two_bit_score]

It's way less effort to put the sealed can in a black trash bag and dump it in a dumpster.

You the :devil: !




TBS

 

[CADplans]

Have you considered a trail cam?
The police would enjoy those pics,,,,

 

[MossRoad]

When I was a kid, there was a dirt road behind our neighborhood that seemed to be the local dumping ground. My folks and some of the other neighbors would go down that road every few weeks, pick through the garbage bags until they found an address, then call the cops. The cops would make them come out and pick it up. They'd always fight it, saying they paid someone to haul it off. Cops would ask who they paid. It was always "some guy with a truck." Cops would tell them to remove it or get a littering ticket. It worked pretty well.

Doesn't work for large items with no I.D.

Game cam might help.

 

[Bird]

We've had a similar thread a long time ago, and I still think the cities made a mistake by charging everyone to dump in their landfills. I used to occasionally take trash to the Dallas landfill (and to Farmers Branch before that) when there was no charge. But then they all started charging different amounts, and people started looking for places they could just throw it out. When the police auto pound was part of my responsibilities, when I had city employees driving a marked City of Dallas pickup truck take trash to the cities own landfill, I had to send cash with them to pay to dump it.

 

[moeh1]

We've actually been getting better knock wood. I still get a bunch of beer and pop bottles along the part of the road frontage that is "wild". Fortunately our county has run a bunch of programs the last few years to turn in electronics, tires and chemicals/paint that stopped all that dumping. They take metal and propane tanks for free too.

 

[Wagtail]

We've had a similar thread a long time ago, and I still think the cities made a mistake by charging everyone to dump in their landfills. I used to occasionally take trash to the Dallas landfill (and to Farmers Branch before that) when there was no charge. But then they all started charging different amounts, and people started looking for places they could just throw it out. When the police auto pound was part of my responsibilities, when I had city employees driving a marked City of Dallas pickup truck take trash to the cities own landfill, I had to send cash with them to pay to dump it.

Similar situation down here. I pay an annual operational levy for the fact that there's a town 'tip'. I don't pay for weekly pick-up 'cause it's not offered out my way. Mind you, I don't need to make a run to the tip all that often either; maybe once every 3 weeks. Costs me $4 for a couple of wheely-bins.

But for the other objects, the prices are all over the shop: $5 per tyre, $0 for all metal, $4 per trailer/Ute-bed of green waste, $0 for paint cans or old oil... The worst offending price has to be for the 'green waste' (branches & leaves) as they simply mulch it and turn it into gardening chips or compost. Too often I see people hauling their green waste into the State Forest (my next door neighbour) and dumping it along the fire trails... which adds to the fuel-load of the forest if their were to be a bush-fire!

Other than that, I'm very clean in this area when it comes to 'trash'.

 

[JerryK]

Our Corwith Township is open every Saturday. They take 30 gallon trash bags for $ 1.50 each. Tires are free, but you can't be a business. Each spring they take just about all trash including stuff with Freon for free, but it is crowded, especially early. I usually do not have much, unless I am doing some cleanup in the barn, usually two to four bags a month. We also have county wide [ Otsego ] free recycling. FREE, in all cases, means that we pay for it thru our property taxes....

 

[wngsprd]

We have about the same amount of highway litter, seems beer bottles are the worst - maybe folks are afraid they'll break so throw them out...I mow a quarter mile of road frontage so always keep a couple of plastic grocery bags for clean up.

Dumping isn't a problem, and there is no excuse for it. Our county maintains several "convenience stations" where it is free for residents to dump trash in a large compactor. It has a large open container for large items, a separate one for used tires. It also has large recycling containers under shelters for used oil, antifreeze, paint, with shelves to place used batteries, or LP tanks. There are dumpsters for paper, cardboard, bottles and cans. There is a shelter for donating to Goodwill, and one for leaving something/taking something, often with furniture. Also has a little bus stop sized building for used books/magazine exchange.

The county brings wood it has shredded and offers it as free mulch. The site is fenced, gated at night, and manned when open...the employee runs the compactor, and stacks the cardboard to maximize volume in each container. They have even helped me unload large heavy objects from my trailer. The guy even "invented" some yellow jacket traps, and I have yet to see one this year in the open bottle/can dumpster, where they like the soda sugar.

Our real estate taxes are also the lowest by far in the metro area, so we are not getting socked there to pay for it...I really think we have smart, conservative management of our county.

 

[oosik]

The beginning of my driveway - where it connects to the county road - has a large pullout area. I've always had problems with people pulling into this area - parking, throwing out their cigarette butts and emptying their ash trays. I finally fell two large pine trees - drug them into the pullout area and solved the problem. Lord knows where these miserable slobs throw their butts and empty their ashtrays now!!

 

[MF283]

We live on a dead end road with 3 houses past us, wasn't to bad until one remarried with a bunch of teenagers, i'd just pickup their trash & throw it over on their property, no problem.
Fortunately, we have very little to no drive thru traffic & most turn around in our drive instead of going the other 1/4 mile where it would be a problem, being most folks can't drive in reverse, i've pulled a few out with my tractor or truck depending on how bad they stuck themselves.
The worse part is, the teens are only a couple hundred feet from their property, guess they figure the extra weight will cut down on gas mileage:confused3:

Ronnie