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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 16:53:12 GMT -5
On lawn clippings: Waste Management collects ours separately and charge s$6/bag. I can fill a lot of bags when I get started pruning and clipping. (I leave grass clippings in the lawn.) Fortunately there's a place less than 10 miles from me that lets you throw it on their giant piles where it composts and they eventually bulldoze it into smaller piles, run it through chipper sand sell it as mulch. They charge $1/bag to drop off.
I love that place.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 18:26:48 GMT -5
The garbage bin and recycle bin are in the alley along the side of my garage. I keep the yard waste bins in the garage (unless they in use and then they are next to the bins in the alley). I live in a densely populated urban area. Trash/recycle/yard waste pick up is once a week. The guidelines for trash are included in every quarterly Water Bill mailing. The guidelines for trash are on the City Website scrolling headline... you can just click it as it goes by and BAM! all the info in big easy to read font with pictures and graphics incase you can't read. The guidelines are also on another pre-screen when you go to pay your water bill on line. Waste Management will pretty much pick up anything AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW SOME GUIDELINES. My neighbors are sometimes a little clueless (as in they pile up their big cardboard boxes outside the bin without flattening/cutting them down). They tend to blow down the alley. If I have to move them to get my car out of my garage I toss the boxes back into their yard. (I use to flatten or cut them down for them - and then I stopped doing that after the 3rd time it happened.). They never figured it out - even when I fessed up to tossing their trash back into their yard because it was all over the alley and some of it was against my garage. I even mentioned the "flatten it" or "cut it down to fit in the bin" and that the dollar store (or walmart) had cheap plastic handle/serrated metal blade steak knives that make cutting up cardboard boxes easy (like cutting thru warm butter) I've got a 15 year old one that still works great!. Waste Management won't pick up a trash bin that's too heavy - if you can't move it without straining - it's probably too heavy. So filling it with the debris from tear out work you did - probably not gonna get picked up. It's legal to put the stuff in the bin... but you need to do alittle each week. not all at once. Waste management wont' pick up - say a roll of carpet (from your tear out). You need to cut it down into 3 foot wide rolls. You cut it into chucks to get it out of your house... why not make the one extra cut while you are doing it (and all dirty and dusty and disgusted by the carpet) and be done with it? Nope, gotta put it out and then complain for WEEKS that the WAste management won't take it - and the City/Alderman should do something about it. And now that rolled up carpet is growing mold and has critters living it and the City has slapped with you a Blight fine. REally. It's NOT that hard to play by the rules and it makes everyone's life better. Waste Management will fix (replace wheels or lids) or replace (cracked or has a hole in it bins) for free. You can call, email, text them. Or you can wait until you get a Blight fine (for broken or lidless bins) or maybe the trash pickup person may report it and get it fixed before you get a Blight fine. Waste Management will even bring you a second garbage bin and/or recycle bin if you are a Single Family Home and have a lot of trash... no extra charge. I don't complain about my trash pick up. I love the service. I get every penny's worth out of it. I've managed to have all sorts of "difficult" to get rid of stuff - that was legal to put in the trash - removed with no fuss/no muss. Old Couches, Mattresses, broken stuff that didn't fit in a bin (a call to WAste management to set up a day for pickup - they have "pick up big stuff" days twice a month - but you have to call and put your stuff out on the day they tell you.) A wall that got torn out of my basement (10 easy to manage contractor bags plus studs cut down to the right size). no fuss no muss. I followed the guidelines. I'm guessing people can't read. Or are just really good at "avoidance" or enjoy the drama that complaining about trash pick adds to their life. That said, I have one neighbor who has multiple bins in various stages of decay (no lids, broken wheels) and overflowing trash and then they stopped mowing/cutting the weeds along the fence (which was piled high with trash). It all started about three years ago - when they got the first Blight Letter and threatened with a Fine for the broken down bins - they got upset. They were told to call Waste Management. Apparently they thought the City or the Alderman should have done that. "Their rights were being trampled on! Their freedom was being taken away!" And the "war" began with the Alderman and City. Since then, they seem to be intentionally creating a blight situation because it's their right and they are free to do so. It's well past the point of making a phone call(to Waste Management to get new/fixed bins). These neighbors do the least amount possible to keep the weeds and their trash bins in order. They trim trim the weeds back once or twice a year when threatened - the weeds are 6 feet high - some of them reach into the alley and brush cars going down the alley. Their broken bins are buried in the weeds. At this point, I'm guessing it's all about "sticking it to the man". They are angry - I talk to them as little as possible. I do wonder what the inside of their house looks like. I'm guessing if and when they sell the house - either they or the buyers will be clearing all the fines/fees that they are racking up. The City won't issue transfer stamps for the sale until all any and all city related tickets, fines, money due to the City is resolved. (the tickets, fines, etc may get waived or may not...) I never had issues with anything getting picked up before I moved here. I pulled up carpet to expose the hardwood floors before I moved in, and put the carpet on the curb without cutting it up. It disappeared. The only thing I was aware had to be cut up was lawn debris, like tree limbs, they couldn’t be more than about 5’ long. There were not certain weeks that big stuff was picked up. My pickup day was Tuesday. I learned somewhere that supervisors drove around on Mondays to see what big items needed to be removed that week and where. So, big stuff, I put on the curb on Mondays so that either the supervisors saw it or people who rode around looking for freebies on the curb would see it before my trash day. Everything was always gone by Tuesday afternoon. People complain about government employees, but I never knew trash pickup could be an issue until I moved here and a private company was supposed to provide that service.
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Post by bean29 on Aug 29, 2021 18:52:34 GMT -5
Our garbage is not supposed to be visible from the street. Technically it was supposed to be in the garage, but we killed the Subdivision rules a ways back. We have rolling garbage carts picked up 1x per week. Recycling carts picked up every other week. A city open Tu/Fri/Sat 7:30-3pm and Tu May-Sept till 8 pm. Special pickup is $25, but they have spring/fall cleanup 2x per year and a fall leave pick up. They picked up branches in spring. We can take yard waste/grass clippings to the city . Also recyclables/TV’s/Computers/Old appliances some for a small fee.
Spring Pick up- I called one year to see if they would take our old hot tub. They said it had to be cut into 3x4? Sections. DH said no problem, way easier than trying to wrestle to the .
We really can’t complain about our service.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 29, 2021 19:20:10 GMT -5
We have large item pickup for free. Used to have to get tags from the city--allowed a few every year. Now they just pick up large items, but there's someone that drives around with a trailer that picks up stuff to scrap or resell or something. We had some old window screens and a fertilizer spread by the road and that guy snagged it.
We rent a yard waste bin every year, but otherwise they pick up the paper yard bags for free. We have to do both in the fall. All the garbage/yardwaste/recycling pickup is paid through our property taxes, as well as the large rolling bins except for the yard waste one. I've got no complaints other than things tend to go flying on garbage day. It's been better since we got the rolling bin for recycling instead of an open tote they used to supply.
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Post by jerseygirl on Aug 29, 2021 20:03:05 GMT -5
We’ve always had garbage pick up 2x week Seems many of you only have once/week
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Post by pulmonarymd on Aug 29, 2021 20:18:26 GMT -5
Garage. We have bears
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Aug 29, 2021 21:07:49 GMT -5
Curb. Tomorrow's garbage day. Rest of the time, at the bottom of the deck stairs. Too lazy to put them anywhere else really. My town doesn't give a crap where we keep them. If they did, the DPW guy across the street would have told me by now.
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Post by MN-Investor on Aug 31, 2021 19:44:26 GMT -5
We've always kept our large wheeled bins next to our detached garage. They're side-by-side so you only see one from the street. I hadn't given much thought to where the neighbors in my large suburb keep theirs, so I looked when I ran errands today. I'd say that about half keep theirs out of sight and the others, like me, have theirs on the front edge or side of their garage. Most folks wheel them out the night before (I'll do mine in a few minutes) and wheel them back anytime during the day after they've been dumped.
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Post by jerseygirl on Aug 31, 2021 19:58:05 GMT -5
A few neighbors have steep hill driveways . They drive their garbage and recycle cans to and from the street in their car trunks
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Sept 1, 2021 0:27:50 GMT -5
Our city actually mandates that our three cans (grey, green, blue) must be kept out of sight from the front yard except when at the curb on garbage pickup day. And we're not supposed to put them out until 6pm the night before, and we're supposed to bring them in by midnight. The rest of the time, they are behind a locked gate in our side yard. Also, I have one hour and 35 minutes to bring ours in and that's not gonna happen tonight. I will bring them in first thing in the morning. Should one of my neighbors report me to Code Enforcement, I will point out that my husband is the trash can bringer-inner and he's off flying fire support in NorCal and that they can just deal with the 8 hour delay on my part in bringing them in. But it's dark and spooky out there and I'm in my jammies.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Sept 2, 2021 21:44:35 GMT -5
We have a small dumpster. Had hubs move it to the back. It was in front and ugly.
There is some rust on a corner and coons and animals have pulled stuff out till its a hole now. 2 of our renters use it also.
Hubs burns the limbs and things like that, that we can burn.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Sept 4, 2021 13:29:13 GMT -5
we have alleyways in chicago. Utilitiy poles, garbage and recycling cans, garage doors.
that's all that the alley is for.
Does seem like a lot of real estate for it, but that's the way it is.
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Post by jeffreymo on Sept 4, 2021 13:49:26 GMT -5
We have a black can we use for lawn waste that we keep tucked next to the garage behind a large shrub that is hidden from neighbors/street view. Rollaway garbage and recycle cans go against the middle of the back wall so they don’t affect our parking. The recycle bin is closest to the garage entry door so we can easily toss the recyclables as we use them.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 4, 2021 19:33:54 GMT -5
My garbage can is in a timeout on the other side of my shed. I put a fully loaded bag of cat crap in and the sun decided to bake it and make it stink! Bleah.
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Post by tallguy on Sept 4, 2021 20:11:53 GMT -5
My garbage can is in a timeout on the other side of my shed. I put a fully loaded bag of cat crap in and the sun decided to bake it and make it stink! Bleah. Shouldn't the can be putting YOU in timeout for that? It didn't do anything wrong, but it has to suffer? Doesn't seem fair.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 4, 2021 21:51:53 GMT -5
My garbage can is in a timeout on the other side of my shed. I put a fully loaded bag of cat crap in and the sun decided to bake it and make it stink! Bleah. Shouldn't the can be putting YOU in timeout for that? It didn't do anything wrong, but it has to suffer? Doesn't seem fair. 🤔 Life ain't fair buttercup😎
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Post by garion2003 on Sept 10, 2021 11:23:59 GMT -5
My city just issued plastic totes on wheels (not huge but can hold 2 bags of trash) - one for trash and one for mixed recycling. Trash is picked up once a week. People wheel their bins to the sidewalk and then move them back after they were emptied.
I keep mine in the backyard, just on the driveway so I can roll them. I am sure some people use a garage but they are rare in my neighborhood. Mostly I see them at the side of people's houses, and some may use the cellar.
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