Does your area have regular trash collection service? (2 Viewers)

[Safiel]

In northeast Pennsylvania, we had a "pay as you throw" system. Garbage disposal is $4.00 per bag and you put the sticker on each bag to be collected. Stickers could be purchased at Dandy Minimarts and other locations.

Here in Surry County, North Carolina, there is no trash collection at all in the unincorporated county. Our four incorporated municipalities, Mount Airy, Dobson, Elkin and Pilot Mountain do have waste pickup. But in much of the mountain region there is no waste collection at all and even in the Atlantic Plain region and Piedmont region of North Carolina, waste collection is generally limited to municipalities. Instead, we are responsible for transporting our waste to the nearest transfer station, which is not too far away for me.

There is an upside in that it encourages composting of organic materials to reduce the amount of material you have to transport.

 

[MAGAnificent]

In northeast Pennsylvania, we had a "pay as you throw" system. Garbage disposal is $4.00 per bag and you put the sticker on each bag to be collected. Stickers could be purchased at Dandy Minimarts and other locations.

Here in Surry County, North Carolina, there is no trash collection at all in the unincorporated county. Our four incorporated municipalities, Mount Airy, Dobson, Elkin and Pilot Mountain do have waste pickup. But in much of the mountain region there is no waste collection at all and even in the Atlantic Plain region and Piedmont region of North Carolina, waste collection is generally limited to municipalities. Instead, we are responsible for transporting our waste to the nearest transfer station, which is not too far away for me.

There is an upside in that it encourages composting of organic materials to reduce the amount of material you have to transport.

I pay $81.00 every three months for trash pickup.

 

[Sidd Finch]

We have trash pickup once a week, and recycling pick up every other week. It's included in our taxes.

 

[roguenuke]

Today is trash and recycling pickup, a weekly thing. It is assessed with our taxes, flat fee based on how many containers you have. We can also take it to the multiple disposal sites in our area too, and that doesn't cost anything.

 

[Callen]

In the city garbage and recycle is included in condo fees. At the lake we have to take it to the dump

 

[Safiel]

I do know in Florida, counties and municipalities offer universal service, paid for as a non-ad valorum assessment on your property tax. Depending on the area of the State, $200 to $250 for the trucks to actually haul from your address to the transfer station/dump and then another $50 to $80 to cover the cost of disposal at the dump.

 

[MamboDervish]

We have trash pickup three times a week, and recycling (glass, plastic, cardboard and compost) once a week on one of the trash pickup days/nights. In my neighborhood, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, with the latter including the recycling.

It is all paid for by our taxes.

 

[Individual]

Periodically, people come around to buy paper, plastic, and glass, to be recycled and nearly all other trash is composted. Take home meals are usually wrapped in banana leaves, though liquids, sauces, soups, etc. are in plastic bags.

 

[BitterPill]

My community has an agreement with Waste Management which costs, I believe, about $50 a month or so.

The company delivered three large trash bins, one for waste headed to a landfill, one for recyclables and one for green waste. Pickup is weekly.

Furthermore, my city had a program that would convert the green waste into various grades of mulch which it then sells, but residents of the city could come by and load, within reason, as much mulch as they care to for free, and on every other Saturday a skip loader would load your truck to its top for $2.

Sadly, the city transferred its mulch outfit over to Waste Management a short time ago, and I've only had occasion to deliver one truckload to the site, cost me $10, and I didn't bother loading any mulch, so I'm not sure if it's still free.

 

[Mike1950]

In Indiana we get billed for trash collection with our water bills. It also includes billing for fire department, street maintenance and other things that used to be paid for by taxes. In an effort to shift the burden to the middle and lower income groups and away from the wealthy we now receive direct billing instead. We even pay a sales tax on the water portion of our bills. We see the same thing in our schools where things that used to be covered by taxes are now paid as fees for the same reason. Heaven forbid you have four kids in school at the same time like my parents did. Real Estate taxes, sales taxes and excise taxes keep going up as they are also being used to offset income taxes. Our politicians like to brag how they haven't raised taxes in years but what they really mean is that they haven't raised income taxes or taxes on businesses (in fact they keep reducing them) as they simply transfer our state to using fees and other non income related taxes instead.

 

[JMR]

We have trash collection twice a week, recycling collection once a week, yard waste pickup once a week during certain parts of year. It is paid through property tax.

 

[venice_ca]

Weekly pickup of trash, recycling, and yard waste.

When I lived in an unincorporated area there was a private service for trash removal, which was OK until informed that our road was too narrow for the new trucks and service was no longer offered. That was no fun at all. Evidently we were not the only ones affected because shortly afterwards the supermarket trash bins several miles away all had locks on them.

 

[Fledermaus]

In northeast Pennsylvania, we had a "pay as you throw" system. Garbage disposal is $4.00 per bag and you put the sticker on each bag to be collected. Stickers could be purchased at Dandy Minimarts and other locations.

Here in Surry County, North Carolina, there is no trash collection at all in the unincorporated county. Our four incorporated municipalities, Mount Airy, Dobson, Elkin and Pilot Mountain do have waste pickup. But in much of the mountain region there is no waste collection at all and even in the Atlantic Plain region and Piedmont region of North Carolina, waste collection is generally limited to municipalities. Instead, we are responsible for transporting our waste to the nearest transfer station, which is not too far away for me.

There is an upside in that it encourages composting of organic materials to reduce the amount of material you have to transport.

Our unincorporated area has regular pick up.

It wasn't always so. In the far back area of our acre was when trash was regularly dumped.

When we moved in I went back there and picked out the old bottles from wineries long gone. Italian Swiss Colony for example.

 

[BirdinHand]

I grew up in NEPA and we had to pay a private company by the bag to pick up trash.

I now live in South NJ - the township provides trash, recycle, compost/organic bins with scheduled weekly pickups - AND has a monthly bulk trash pickup, 3Xs year curbside yard waste pickup and monthly hazardous material drop offs…all covered by our local taxes. Plus other shredding, etc events

 

[venice_ca]

It wasn't always so. In the far back area of our acre was when trash was regularly dumped.

When we moved in I went back there and picked out the old bottles from wineries long gone. Italian Swiss Colony for example.

That reminds me— after a particularly rainy winter a neighbor down the road showed me where runoff had uncovered an old trash site. Coffee tins and glass containers and bottles, oldest probably dating to late 1940s - early 1950s.

 

[Safiel]

Our unincorporated area has regular pick up.

It wasn't always so. In the far back area of our acre was when trash was regularly dumped.

When we moved in I went back there and picked out the old bottles from wineries long gone. Italian Swiss Colony for example.

I know we had quite a bit of illegal dumping going on in Bradford County, PA where I grew up, back in the 70's and early 80's. We generally composted what we could and burned the paper trash and so we had a relatively small amount of stuff to bag up.

Most of those illegal dumps have been cleaned up.

 

[Rexedgar]

We have three or more private trash outfits. When I first moved here, 36 years ago, there was a dump that consisted of a 1/4 mile bad road that opened into a clearing. That was where you unloaded your trash. Slowly, the road got shorter and shorter. About 10 years back, the area was converted to a “transfer station.” Large containers connected to compactors do the job now. The containers are changed out as they fill and hauled to the main dump where I believe the majority of refuse is burned. I cant see shlepping cans out to the road at certain times and then recovering the containers. I still take out household trash once a week on my schedule.