Not again!

[RNeumann]

I actually don't think the landfill for our area takes appliances.

Welcome to your reality then! I used to live in a state that charged about as much to dump trash as a month’s electric or gas bill. Guess what? Trash on the side of the road. Now I live in a state that takes about everything you can throw at it and it’s part of the property tax- any surprise it’s spotless!?!?
While most here could afford both but some can’t. If I was in a position to either keep lights on, feed the family or pay dump fees- well let’s just say you’d be complaining about me. This sounds your political climate is off...

 

[kittyhawk]

Once a week I ride my roadside fence line and pick up trash, every week I pick up at least 10 Keystone light beer cans. I致e got a neighbor farther up the road who really likes keystone light.

 

[ning]

Our landfill (actually, transfer station now, landfill is closed) charges about $80/ton.

However, you can separate out recyclables - non-deposit ("CRV" in California) paper, cardboard, tin, and plastic are free to dump but aren't compensated; and aluminum and CRV glass and plastic (basically anything carbonated or not all milk/juice) bottles they pay you to bring in.

My garbage bill, about every three months, is typically zero - my recycling completely offsets the trash, plus a couple hours of time (loading trailer, round trip and dump time), minus time to take stuff out to the end of the road on a weekly basis if I didn't do it this way (and time cleaning up when a can gets hit next to the road by a car or a bear).

 

[dodge man]

If I couldn't afford to dispose of it properly, I still wouldn't go out and dump it in some road side ditch. Someone else is going to have to clean it up, in this case the road commissioner.

 

[aczlan]

I actually don't think the landfill for our area takes appliances.

Around here, most people take them to the scrap yard who will pay you by weight. They will not however take refrigerators unless you have a certificate saying that the refrigerant was evacuated.

Aaron Z

 

[RNeumann]

If I couldn't afford to dispose of it properly, I still wouldn't go out and dump it in some road side ditch. Someone else is going to have to clean it up, in this case the road commissioner.

I completely understand and may have come across wrong. I didn’t know how “good” it could be until I arrived in this state. I asked how the trash worked when I was building my house. The county said go to the disposal site and they will take care of you. Here are some rough DAILY limits- 8 yards of waste, 4 tires, 2 car batteries, 5 gal oil, 2 appliances etc.
In my old state the rates kept going up and the roadside trash also kept going up- you couldn’t hardly make a dump run for under $75. I didn’t know it could be any other way until I moved. Now I wonder why everyone isn’t doing the same thing.

Sometimes I wonder if Illinois is run by folks who have never seen the lower 2/3 of the state.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I saw, I believe on Youtube, a guy made his own little reality show. He goes through garbage dumped near Detroit looking for I.D. and then repatriots (sp?) it to the rightful owners.

 

[Clint S]

A few years ago I had an issue with oil filters, trash ect dumped at my place every few months. I went through the filters and there were consistently three different ones. Low and behold a guy mile up had those 3 exact cars in his driveway. He then made the mistake to include a magazine with his address on it. I then recollected many of the filters from my scrap recycle pile and dumped about 10 filters and all the there crap from the most recent dump in the middle of his drive. Never happened again..............

 

[Steppenwolfe]

This is the sad state of our current world. The lack of respect between people leaves a short stretch to lack of respect for one's property. These lowlifes know there is ALWAYS someone out there to clean up their mess. What can you do ???:confused3:

 

[k0ua]

This is the sad state of our current world. The lack of respect between people leaves a short stretch to lack of respect for one's property. These lowlifes know there is ALWAYS someone out there to clean up their mess. What can you do ???:confused3:

Call the Sheriff. It may not be high on their list, but they will investigate around here when they can work it in. There has been plenty of people caught and prosecuted.