Company that picks up trash in town goes out of business abruptly. Everyone starts to complain about the piles of trash at their driveway, other trash companies too busy to get to it quick they say. Story is all over news and the paper. City talks about fines and then how to help these people. What??? The local transfer station that collects all the local trash to go to the landfill is within 6 miles of about any house in town. Uhhh, put your trash in your pickup or trunk and take it to the transfer station and it's a done deal. Man some people are about helpless these days.
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Keith Molden
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Taking the trash to the local transfer station is all well and good, however ours here in Meigs County, Ohio charge $30.00 per ton or any part of a ton. (1 bag $30.00--1 ton $30.00) Just doesn't seem right to me that they can charge that way, but they do. And we wonder why the trash dumps show up along the back roads. Makes me think that Washington does not have the market on stupid, it's the trickle down effect LOL. Just my thoughts, Keith
Bryce Frazier
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You will like this... Our neighbor up the road sold his house to some people from Vermont, and they are going to rent it out for a few years. SO, the people that moved in are from L.A. She calls me one day and asks what I would charge her to remove her trash. (I do handyman and yard clean up type jobs for all of the neighbors for $12 and hour.) I asked her how much she had, (thinking piles of pine needles, or....) She said about 7 bags. I asked 7 bags of WHAT??? She said: Oh, well, I think some might have cans and bottles in them, maybe some card board, etc. Long story short, she didn't know how, and she didn't want to have to get ride of her trash ( dump is 4 1/2 mi away ) and wanted ME to haul it off for her... I said I wasn't interested. She has called me for a whole assortment of things that my mom could easily fix. It is actually kind of sad! Bryce
Don't you love those people. I was sitting here in my recliner about 7:45 one night last week when it was below zero with about a -30 windchill. Had just gotten out of the shower. The not-from-around here neighbor woman called and asked if I could do something for her. She started in about how my brother had plowed her driveway the day before,but some of it had blown back in. Said her son's girlfriend had backed in to some snow and was stuck,could I come and pull her out with the tractor?
Her son has a 4 wheel drive pickup,her husband has a 4 wheel drive pickup and a tractor with a back blade and she thinks I'm going out in that weather to pull the girl out of their driveway?!
It was like when their son was driving like a maniac,which was usual for him. He ran his pickup right out in the lake when he went off the road. His dad came and asked if I'd take the tractor and pull him out. I went down there,the dad went too. He was out there in water about waist deep,the kid was sitting in the box. The dad stood there holding a chain looking at me like I was going to be the one to wade out there and hook the chain. That didn't happen either.
Her son has a 4 wheel drive pickup,her husband has a 4 wheel drive pickup and a tractor with a back blade and she thinks I'm going out in that weather to pull the girl out of their driveway?!
It was like when their son was driving like a maniac,which was usual for him. He ran his pickup right out in the lake when he went off the road. His dad came and asked if I'd take the tractor and pull him out. I went down there,the dad went too. He was out there in water about waist deep,the kid was sitting in the box. The dad stood there holding a chain looking at me like I was going to be the one to wade out there and hook the chain. That didn't happen either.
farmerwithmutt
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City guy bought a farm neighbor dropped by next morning asked why the cows were so noisey city guy replied there probably waiting for the milkman!
My recyle is easy burnables wood stove food scraps pigs or chickens rocks cement deep ditch metals small stuff into old barrel or water tank rest maybe small trash can take in . i have been accused of taking home more than i took in . what would you do empty 5 gallon buckets lawn mower like mine only had non broke parts i need lots of good fence post i cant belive the stuff guys toss
My recyle is easy burnables wood stove food scraps pigs or chickens rocks cement deep ditch metals small stuff into old barrel or water tank rest maybe small trash can take in . i have been accused of taking home more than i took in . what would you do empty 5 gallon buckets lawn mower like mine only had non broke parts i need lots of good fence post i cant belive the stuff guys toss
Dave H (MI)
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Put it in your pickup? How are you going to do that and not cover up the solar panels!?!
(for those who heard nnalert's speech at the Detroit Auto Show yesterday where he crowed about the advances in automobile technology, including solar panels in the beds of pickups.)
(for those who heard nnalert's speech at the Detroit Auto Show yesterday where he crowed about the advances in automobile technology, including solar panels in the beds of pickups.)
Biggest problem with self-help dump runs is that most landfills have a minimum charge, which makes it cost-prohibitive to take as little as you could fit in your trunk. You'd have to have a pickup, and let it get full, to get the charge down to a reasonable level. Meanwhile, you've got a pickup load of garbage, which is getting aromatic and attracting varmints and flies.
I think garbage collection is reasonably lucrative, so I'm surprised someone hasn't taken it over in your area.
I think garbage collection is reasonably lucrative, so I'm surprised someone hasn't taken it over in your area.
formenwhogrow
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sounds like a money making opportunity to me. Leave a flyer on their door, something like -"have truck, will haul" with a phone #. Cha Ching. Prob get busted and fined for not having proper permits or insurance or something.....
Larry NEIL
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Livin where I do, I don't even want to get involved in this. My blood pressure is under control right now!
In my parish (Louisiana) the citizens several ears ago voted a small tax to fund a compactor trash disposal system. The Parish set up trash compactors, plus open-top boxes for metal, old furniture, scrap lumber. Recycle bins for paper, plastic. Limbs and leaves not accepted.
They're open every day for at least a few hours, and a couple of days a week they open early in the morning so workers can drop off trash on their way to work. Every Saturday I haul my trash, my daughter's and my sis-n-law's trash two miles to the compactor.
There's a compactor site within three or four miles of every citizen. The sites are manned, but people dump their own trash into the bins. Other than the tax, there is no fee. This system has proved to be very popular, and it has virtually eliminated promiscuous dumping along Parish roads.
They're open every day for at least a few hours, and a couple of days a week they open early in the morning so workers can drop off trash on their way to work. Every Saturday I haul my trash, my daughter's and my sis-n-law's trash two miles to the compactor.
There's a compactor site within three or four miles of every citizen. The sites are manned, but people dump their own trash into the bins. Other than the tax, there is no fee. This system has proved to be very popular, and it has virtually eliminated promiscuous dumping along Parish roads.
Bryce Frazier
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Oh I know, these people are also the ones that called me at 7 in the morning to tell me that they had "deadly" vultures in their front yard, and that they were afraid to let their kids (4 and 7) and dogs (ankle biters) out. SO, I went up there to ease their emotions only to find the most deadly, blood thirst, flight less birds in north Idaho, Turkeys...
johndeerefan
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I pay $25 per month for an old guy in a pickup to come by once a week. It's either that or I pay $0.75 per bag to haul it to the garbage center. Works out about the same price and I don't have to mess with it. Hope he doesn't die on me anytime soon. He is the only source around that hauls trash.
huntingreen2day
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I can see the transfer station from my house. A full 1/4 mile away how the crow flies but i have neighbors a lot closer than I am and they have garbage service. Can't understand that. We pay a monthly $ 5 fee whether we use it or not that is added to our electric bill. I generate more trash in the shop than I do in the house.
willie in mn
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My local transfer station charges by actual weight too. Problem is they add $15 scale fee. That is like the grocery store charging scale fee to tell you the loaf of bread weighs 1 1/2#, or the gas station charging a meter fee to tell you that you bought 10 gallons of gas, & a computer fee to add up the price.
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john in la
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I use to burn my trash in a 55 gallon drum and then haul the drum to the parish landfill and empty it when full. Dumping is free because I am a resident of the parish.
But considering the landfill is 40 miles away so it took 2 hours of my time; I am not as young as I use to be and 55 gallon drums get heavy for me to lift into pickup; and I can get garbage service for a month for what I was spending in gas to go to landfill; we now just get garbage pickup at the house.
Not a bad deal. They give us a 90 gallon can and replace it for free if it ever breaks/wheels fall off. Put it by the street once a week and the garbage is gone.
But considering the landfill is 40 miles away so it took 2 hours of my time; I am not as young as I use to be and 55 gallon drums get heavy for me to lift into pickup; and I can get garbage service for a month for what I was spending in gas to go to landfill; we now just get garbage pickup at the house.
Not a bad deal. They give us a 90 gallon can and replace it for free if it ever breaks/wheels fall off. Put it by the street once a week and the garbage is gone.
Most private and municipal dumps now charge high fees to drop anything off unless they are subsidized. They were likely collecting directly from the defunct garbage company.
The city residents are probably already paying $15 to $50 per month per household for trash pickup and now they are certainly not getting what they paid for. Most will not pay an additional $5 to $20 per week for the privelage of hauling their own trash in their personal vehicles.
The city government is not handling it well, the elected officials should be scrambling to get someone new in to continue the trash pickup, even if it stretches their budgets more than they like. They may have problems come election time, remember how Jane Burne (spelling) became mayor of Chicago after snow storms shut down that city around 1980?
Trash hauling is generally very lucrative with members of "organized" families involved. Reading between the lines, I find it hard to believe a trash hauler has financial problems unless someone embezzeled a large sum of money.
Please keep us posted on what happens.
The city residents are probably already paying $15 to $50 per month per household for trash pickup and now they are certainly not getting what they paid for. Most will not pay an additional $5 to $20 per week for the privelage of hauling their own trash in their personal vehicles.
The city government is not handling it well, the elected officials should be scrambling to get someone new in to continue the trash pickup, even if it stretches their budgets more than they like. They may have problems come election time, remember how Jane Burne (spelling) became mayor of Chicago after snow storms shut down that city around 1980?
Trash hauling is generally very lucrative with members of "organized" families involved. Reading between the lines, I find it hard to believe a trash hauler has financial problems unless someone embezzeled a large sum of money.
Please keep us posted on what happens.
WalJohn
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Use the time they spend griping about the trash.
We used to burn everything except deposit bottles and cans or scrap metal. Now they throw a hissy fit if you burn, so I have to be very selective about where I have a "brush fire". The last time I took a load of recyclables, metal/plastic/glass, to the transfer station was about 5 years ago. I had 5 small bags of plastic and they charged me $15.00 and it got dumped in the same bin as regular house hold garbage! The only reason we even bother with recyclables is SWMBO's mistaken idea that she's somehow saving the planet. It all goes to a huge landfill in Rodman NY.
I miss the old dump. You met your neighbors and exchanged stories, kept up on their kids, etc. And we had the "Drop and Swap" where you could put your no longer needed but still useful items like windows, buckets, old lawn and garden stuff, hose, whatever. Plus, it was a tourist attraction because every night the 15 or 20 local bears would come out and scavenge. In the older days we'd go up in the evening and shoot rats too. Quite a social center really.
Is my red neck showing?
I miss the old dump. You met your neighbors and exchanged stories, kept up on their kids, etc. And we had the "Drop and Swap" where you could put your no longer needed but still useful items like windows, buckets, old lawn and garden stuff, hose, whatever. Plus, it was a tourist attraction because every night the 15 or 20 local bears would come out and scavenge. In the older days we'd go up in the evening and shoot rats too. Quite a social center really.
Is my red neck showing?
The towns around here all contract with disposal companies. Residents are required to pay for garbage pick up. The residents pay the city who in turn pay the disposal company.
So if what the OP described happened here it would be the town's responsibility to pick up the trash since they have collected the fee from the residents.
The minimum charge at the local transfer station was $86 last I hauled there.
So if what the OP described happened here it would be the town's responsibility to pick up the trash since they have collected the fee from the residents.
The minimum charge at the local transfer station was $86 last I hauled there.
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