Rural Garbage Service

[polo1665]

Often wondered that myself. Had never heard the term "township" before joining this board. Is there a difference between a town and a township or is it just semantics?

Not entirely sure about Michigan, but here in Ohio a county is sectioned off into townships. Each township has their own limited government (typically made up of elected trustees) and school system. There are towns in the township, but a township is not a town.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Not entirely sure about Michigan, but here in Ohio a county is sectioned off into townships. Each township has their own limited government (typically made up of elected trustees) and school system. There are towns in the township, but a township is not a town.

In Pa township is = to county in Va. Ed

 

[bigtiller]

$192 a year for me.

I had a rental property for a few years, and that guy just used the ditch on the way into town for anything that wouldn't burn. He was to lazy to steel space in someone else's can.

 

[turnkey4099]

$39 per two months. Mandatory. You pay whether or not you use. Recyclables we have to haul ourselves but the separation is easy, boxes from the grocery store for paper and separate boxes for cardboard. Ex banana boxes are especially good to contain the paper and carboard, then everything else goes in barrels. I haul (due now) when I have 3 35gal barrels recyclables plus boxes of newspaper and one box (usually) of cardboard.

I built the Cadillac of burnbarrels, Concrete block enclosure for a 55 gal drum which had both ends cut out. It sat on a grate made of scrap iron. Burned like a blowtorch when lit off. It also burned up the grate and the barrels. both needed replacement every couple years. Then the burn barrel ban went into effect with the hooker being they were paying a bounty to anyone who finked off anyone using a burn barrel. Since my place is right on the highway that ended burn barrel use.

When I started recycling, I cut my garbage doen from a garbage can a week to a half can. I only put it out every other week.

Harry K

Harry K

 

[JerryK]

Up here in the boonies, our township [ Corwith ] operates a dumpster site open once a week for $1.50 a 30 gallon bag. I take about two bags in a month, unless I am doing some type of clean up. They also have a free dump day each spring where you can take in just about anything [ including Freon filled stuff /modest piles of tires/etc ].

 

[QRTRHRS]

13.50/month, five bags per week but we usually only put out about two bags a week so I may skip a week on occasion. I put wheels on a chemical tote with a wire cover to throw my bags in. Keeps the critters out. Every now and then I put scrap metal out. I don't generate enough to make it worth my while and at 13.50, my hauler is not getting rich.

We burn our paper waste. That way, we don't have to worry about any info being picked up by others. Wood scraps get burned too usually when I have to much on hand after saving it for who knows what project. Brush gets stacked in heaps in my woods for wildlife cover.

No recycle pickup here. We have to take it to the county garage or in the case of plastics, we often throw a bag in the recycle container at a Wal-Mart in the next county over.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Where we lived in coastal Virginia, there was no local pickup. The closest transfer station was about 25 minutes away, on the way to the nearest grocery store, so I dropped stuff off once a week or so. It was funded by the county, so no direct fees of any kind for the user. One very nice thing was unlimited drop off of tree limbs, bushes etc which was real handy in hurricane season and again in the spring.

Here in California we have homes in Sacramento County and Mendocino County. For Sacramento, the fee for curbside pickup is about $40 a month. That is garbage once a week and recycling every other week. At the transfer station and landfills, the fee is $30 a ton for most stuff.

Mendocino is a different story. No local pickup. At the closest transfer station, household waste is $4 a bag or 33 gal container. Rather than pay that I just put the bags in the back of the truck and add them to our curbside pickup in Sacramento.

Mendocino charges $25 a cubic yard for everything else (trimmings or concrete blocks, doesn't matter). So my small dump trailer (5x10x3) would be about $125 a level load. Since I have to drive back and forth anyway, I just throw stuff in the trailer, and when it is full, tow it to one of the Sacramento facilities and unload for generally about 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of a Mendocino facility. That is a bit of a nuisance but it irks me to pay what seem to me to be very high Mendocino fees.

 

[Walker1]

$135 a quarter, trash plus recycles, once a week.

 

[doxford jim]

No garbage pickup - we do have a free transfer centre about 4 miles drive. I go usually every second week and put the bags etc. in the bin - no charge. They also take tires, rims, frigs, stoves all types of metal etc. They have a separate compound for the large stuff and it is open fours hours each day.

 

[DT86]

We do not use pick up, though it is available.

In our county we have "convenience stations" spread through out the county.

We take our trash there, where they compact it into a large container that a truck picks up and hauls to the landfill.

They also have a bin for recyclables and a spot for tires and used oil (which they're supposed to charge for).