primitives discuss garbage pick-up

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024583815

Oh my.

redwitch (10,526 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:08 AM

Is your trash picked up weekly by a private company?

Trying to figure out the cost/convenience.

quinnox (19,282 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:11 AM

1. No, once every two weeks

It used to be weekly, but they changed it.

dionysus (24,333 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:14 AM

4. that's why you "find" an extra city trash bin, just in case...

(that has to suck in the summers, depending on what type of trash you throw out. cat shit brewing in the bin for two weeks would not be good)

quinnox (19,282 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:18 AM

7. I was not happy about it

It does especially suck with smelly type garbage. But that is the price I pay for living in a progressive city where they come up with this stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the environmental concerns, but yea, it sucks sometimes.

dionysus (24,333 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:12 AM

2. i think it's private, but contracted by the city. i think Waste Management does our trash, but we

get it default by paying city taxes.

in the outlying Burbs... pretty sure it's private by house (or no pickup). I can't imagine how it'd be cheaper.. what are your choices?

redwitch (10,526 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:18 AM

6. Some people are talking dissolution for our village.

Upstate NY. We currently have our trash picked up weekly by our DPW, we buy trash stickers to put on the bags. Currently I would say we average $10 a month for stickers. People touting the dissolution are saying that it will be great to not have any taxes ?! but there are a lot of things to consider. Trash pick up is a teensy part of the discussion, then there is water, sewer, a new fire district and so on.
 
I figure our cost to a private trash hauler would have to be at least twice that. Plus, if everyone chooses different haulers the village will be full of garbage trucks all week long and there will always be trash on somebody's curb.

JustAnotherGen (9,659 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:14 AM

34. Town city pick up

Is what makes that neck of the woods great - among other things! When I lived off of Long Pond in Greece - I was shocked I had to purchase garbage pick up. Two miles down the road onto Lake Ave - part of your city taxes.

Glitterati (1,663 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:39 AM

16. City now, but was private for the last 20 years

City pick up is a bit cheaper, but not by much....it is, however, more "value" which I will explain below.
 
1. Any irregular trash, such as yard waste, an old sofa, etc. has to be called about.....give them a call and they send out a special truck for the "non household trash" at no additional cost. They just need to put it on a different truck. With the private providers, you were just plain outta luck for that kind of trash - you had to locate and pay someone to come haul it off for you. And, yes, each subdivision has multiple trash collectors with those noisy ass trucks going through every day of the week. Private haulers were at least $23.00/month, billed quarterly.
 
2. Water rates.......OMG, I cannot caution you enough to stay away from "private" water companies. I lived in one subdivision for 5 years with private water. Now, understand it was the same water I'm on NOW inside the city limits, but passed through a private company. My combined water/sewer/trash bill in the city is $45.00/month. On the private water company, water only was at least $60.00/month, there was no sewer (houses were on septic tanks) and trash collection was private companies you had to find and pay for. But the water rates alone were horrific.
 
3. Taxes....inside the city limits here, we have no city taxes [sic]. My taxes are the same and any other county resident and mostly connected to school taxes.
 
I limited my search when buying a house to INSIDE the city limits and found the perfect home which I closed on a little over a year ago.

redwitch (10,526 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:29 AM

12. Lots of private haulers could be chosen.

We don't have a truck and I don't like the thought of putting the trash in the car in the summer.

dionysus (24,333 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 01:31 AM

22. oh hells no, you've not much much choice... i know at least one guy who lives a few miles away

and doesn't have garbage pickup, so he comes over in his van to my neighbors, and "borrows" the bins for a few minutes, if you know what I mean

Tuesday Afternoon (50,770 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:23 AM

9. No. I haul my own trash.

redwitch (10,526 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:26 AM

10. We have a lot of people in the village who couldn't do that.

My elderly neighbors for one. What does it cost you to dispose of it where you haul it?

Tuesday Afternoon (50,770 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:30 AM

14. Nothing because, I take it to my brother's dumpster at his business.

I only have a bag every two weeks. I haven't hauled to the county dump in a long time so I have forgotten their prices.

Scuba (35,658 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 06:46 AM

30. Teabaggers here rammed through a change two years ago, from Township to private ....

... employees and lower wages and fewer benefits, which hurts our whole community.
 
So, instead of my trash being picked up at the same time of the same day every week, now I have no clue when they might come. Some weeks they miss my small neighborhood altogether. Sometimes they're here early in the morning. Sometimes not 'til late in the afternoon.
 
They also imposed new restrictions on how much and what kinds of trash they'll take.
 
For all of this, my property taxes went up. Thanks, privitization.

MineralMan (61,755 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 10:00 AM

43. Yes. In St. Paul, MN, there is no contract waste pickup.

We have several companies who do trash pickup. I use Waste Management, but I see four companies on my street on different days. Each household chooses their own company from the several who operate in the city.
 
I wish there were just one, because the trash truck traffic on our street is almost daily, and it's noisy and hard on the streets.
 
Our recycling, however, is handled by one contract company.

femmocrat (16,044 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:33 PM

49. Yes. They take what the scavengers don't get to first.

Seriously. There are people here who will take anything and root through our garbage for "treasures".
 
Creepy. We have to take out our trash the morning of pickup or it will be all over our driveway.

[Carl]

dionysus (24,333 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:14 AM

4. that's why you "find" an extra city trash bin, just in case...

(that has to suck in the summers, depending on what type of trash you throw out. cat shit brewing in the bin for two weeks would not be good)

Moocher.

Glitterati (1,663 posts)    Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:39 AM

16. City now, but was private for the last 20 years

City pick up is a bit cheaper, but not by much....it is, however, more "value" which I will explain below.
 
1. Any irregular trash, such as yard waste, an old sofa, etc. has to be called about.....give them a call and they send out a special truck for the "non household trash" at no additional cost. They just need to put it on a different truck. With the private providers, you were just plain outta luck for that kind of trash - you had to locate and pay someone to come haul it off for you. And, yes, each subdivision has multiple trash collectors with those noisy ass trucks going through every day of the week. Private haulers were at least $23.00/month, billed quarterly.
 
2. Water rates.......OMG, I cannot caution you enough to stay away from "private" water companies. I lived in one subdivision for 5 years with private water. Now, understand it was the same water I'm on NOW inside the city limits, but passed through a private company. My combined water/sewer/trash bill in the city is $45.00/month. On the private water company, water only was at least $60.00/month, there was no sewer (houses were on septic tanks) and trash collection was private companies you had to find and pay for. But the water rates alone were horrific.
 
3. Taxes....inside the city limits here, we have no city taxes [sic]. My taxes are the same and any other county resident and mostly connected to school taxes.
 
I limited my search when buying a house to INSIDE the city limits and found the perfect home which I closed on a little over a year ago.

Either stupid or a liar...probably both.