Rural Garbage Service

[NoTrespassing]

After spending the day cleaning up some garbage that one of our dogs got into, I started wondering how much money I've saved over the years by not paying for rural garbage service. It's always been a bit of a pita but I still think it's worth the hassle of taking a bag of garbage to the dumpster at work every other week. My parents have never paid for the service and they've lived in the country for 50 years.

So, how much are people paying for rural garbage service these days?

Kevin

 

[LD1]

$192 for a whole year. 5-bag max.


I used to burn trash. Was always a hastle, then the unburnable stuff like tin cans, glass jars, foil wrappers, etc that always end up in the burnabls even when trying to separate.

Whole lot easier just paying $16 a month not to worry

 

[farmer2009]

I have a 6 lid dumpster that is emptied every week. Usually not full but some weeks it is. $35/month.

He'll take anything but steel and wood. Says it tears up his truck to compact those products. So I have a burn barrel for wood and take metal to the recycler about once a year.

 

[MossRoad]

If we get caught dumping our household garbage in our employer's dumpster, we get fired. Imagine if all 300 of us did that?

We pay $171 per year for trash pickup and $32.40 per year for recycling (which is mandatory, here). So, $203.40 for both, or $3.91 per week. I have to say our trash service is excellent! So is our recycling. Both are 96 gallon wheeled bins. The trash company allows things outside the bin, too, if you call ahead. No extra charge, but I think the send the guy with the least seniority out on those days! :laughing:

 

[Dftodd]

It's cheap where ya'll are at for trash service. Here it was $80 a quarter. They would send the bill out after the next quarter was due and always missed a week because the check was in the mail during the next pick up. Got fed up with picking it up because of critters, and the missed week every quarter. Canceled the service and haul it into work now.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

$20 a month, once a week pickup. It's worth it to me. I use a local independent hauler. We also have curbside recycling that gets picked up every other week by the county.

 

[LD1]

Can't believe those that haul trash into work. Not sure I would want to try that.

Not sure about elsewhere, but I can have any one of about 6 companies if I wanted. If unhappy with service...shop around.

 

[RickB]

I could have curbside pickup by private hauler, but take my trash to the county transfer station. Runs about $2-4 a week depending on what I take.

 

[MossRoad]

If we get caught dumping our household garbage in our employer's dumpster, we get fired. Imagine if all 300 of us did that?

We pay $171 per year for trash pickup and $32.40 per year for recycling (which is mandatory, here). So, $203.40 for both, or $3.91 per week. I have to say our trash service is excellent! So is our recycling. Both are 96 gallon wheeled bins. The trash company allows things outside the bin, too, if you call ahead. No extra charge, but I think the send the guy with the least seniority out on those days! :laughing:

I forgot to mention, trash pickup is weekly, recycling is bi-weekly.

 

[aczlan]

40ish/month around here for a 2 yard dumpster picked up twice a month.
Was about the same price for a weekly curbside pickup and being as we are on a busy road with a dropoff right after the shoulder, its a lot less of a pain to use a dumpster.
We can put most anything but tires and hazmat in the dumpster.
Could take it into work (they wouldn't care, several of the other guys do) but our dumpster is very convenient.

Aaron Z

 

[kcflhrc]

Trash service here is $56 a quarter, no limit. No recycling. I put recycle in the truck and go to the recycling center about 20 minutes away.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Can't believe those that haul trash into work. Not sure I would want to try that.

Not sure about elsewhere, but I can have any one of about 6 companies if I wanted. If unhappy with service...shop around.

I don't take much in, only a regular kitchen sized bag every other week. I also get drinking water from work for free. I work for a small company with one dumpster that is almost never full. I've been doing it for 15 years since I moved where I am now.

My father gets rid of garbage at a number of different places but mostly at gas stations. I would imagine he's saved close to $10k over the last 50 years. He's saved a lot more than that by never having pay TV, mortgage, or car payment.

I come by my frugality honestly I guess.

Kevin

 

[Coyote machine]

Since 1986 I used to drive my trash and recyclables to our town dump. Then recently we arranged for pickup at out house 2x/mo. We pay extra $10 for the trucks to drive up our drive to the back of our house, since we're not about to haul the bins to the bottom of our drive and back again.

Soon VT will be implementing a no food waste in the trash mandatory policy. That will mean all food waste will need to go down a disposal or be composted in one's yard, or taken to one of your work dumpsters - can I get some address for that?:confused3:

 

[Gunny]

$11 per month for weekly roadside pickup here. The county dumpster is on the far side of the county so it with what they charge plus fuel, it'd cost me more than that to haul it myself even if I only did it twice a month, plus I don't have to use up any of my time.

 

[oosik]

I burned, then buried my own trash in a "cell" I created every year. I had done this for over 25 year with no problems. Then, about five years ago, it got away from me and came very near becoming a "local wildfire". It pushed my limited resources to the max but I was able to get the rapidly expanding fire out.

Now I take my garbage out for road-side pickup weekly. This service costs $20/month and I don't have to fight fires anymore.

BTW - garbage pickup only started in my area around five years ago. A trip to the only local landfill is a 50 mile round trip for me.

If I took my garbage/trash and dumped it in my employers dumpster - being fired would be expected.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I haul mine to the dumpsters about every other week. By then we have 6 big trash cans full and then I can haul Mom-in-laws too. Not far and I often bring home subway for lunch for a treat. If I had to load it and haul it to the end of the drive I might as well just take it the rest of the way. Ed

 

[PHPaul]

I guess I'm not "rural" but Maine is a bit different in that respect. What would be a "township" in Michigan is a "town" in Maine. I live in the "town" of Gouldsboro. My house is in the "village" of Prospect Harbor.

More to the point, the town contracts for weekly garbage (Thursdays) and recycleables (Wednesdays) pickup for every resident in the 46 square miles of the town, irrespective of location in villages or more rural farms/properties. All funded via property taxes. Recycling is "free", garbage requires a 75¢ sticker per 40# bag.

There is also a "transfer station" for drop off of large items that requires a $10 annual sticker. Most stuff is free for non-commercial residents, things like tires and refrigerators (or anything with freon/refrigerant) require a one-time fee.

Slight thread drift: While I'm not convinced that recycling is cost effective, especially the "single stream" fustercluck, I figure that anything I don't have to stuff in one of those 75¢ bags is saving me money. I also save and sell any scrap metal, tho at current prices I barely pay for the gas to haul it to the scrap dealer.

 

[txdon]

Soon VT will be implementing a no food waste in the trash mandatory policy. That will mean all food waste will need to go down a disposal or be composted in one's yard, or taken to one of your work dumpsters - can I get some address for that?:confused3:

Food waste solution: Soldier Larva
All our food scrapes go to feed the larva. They eat it as fast as we produce it.

 

[PaulWS]

Our trash pick up is $193.00 per year, the county has a contract with the trash company. We take the barrels to the end of the development to save our roads.

 

[Mace Canute]

Food waste solution: Soldier Larva
All our food scrapes go to feed the larva. They eat it as fast as we produce it.

I had to do a bit of Googling for "Soldier Larva" and amongst other information found this which was..."interesting".

Black soldier fly larvae are edible to humans. The larvae are highly efficient in converting proteins, containing up to 42% of protein, and a lot of calcium and amino acids. In 432 hours, 1 gram of black soldier fly eggs turns into 2.4 kilograms of protein.[citation needed] They thus can be a source of protein for human consumption.

In 2013, Austrian designer Katharina Unger invented a table-top insect breeding farm called "Farm 432" in which people can produce edible fly larvae at home. It is a multichambered plastic machine that looks like a kitchen appliance. According to Unger: Farm 432 enables people to turn against the dysfunctional system of current meat production by growing their own protein source." About 500 g of larvae or two meals can be produced in a week by the machine.

The taste of the larvae is said to be very distinctive. Unger: "When you cook them, they smell a bit like cooked potatoes. The consistency is a bit harder on the outside and like soft meat on the inside. The taste is nutty and a bit meaty."

I really didn't need to know that! :ill: