Is your trash picked up weekly by a private company?

[redwitch]

Trying to figure out the cost/convenience.

[quinnox]

1. No, once every two weeks

It used to be weekly, but they changed it.

[dionysus]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[dionysus]

8. yeah, i hear ya... rochester ny here. i get city trash and 2 miles away is private\none!

[redwitch]

11. I love Rochester and go there a lot for my job.

A really nice city.

[dionysus]

21. me too. perfect size, nice joint... and tons of affordable golf courses within 30 min.

[JustAnotherGen]

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]

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. 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]

18. I have no idea what will happen to water rates.

But my brother who lives 5 miles away pays a lot more for his water than we do. Ours is 40-45 every three months now.

[Glitterati]

20. We had a leak

AT the meter........my water bill was $450.00 because the leak was "on my side" of the water meter. Even though I couldn't touch their meter, nor make repairs to it without risking being jailed.

My current water bill inside the city is ~15/month but then sewer is tacked on to that, which is a repeat of the water bill....so another 15. However, we do have fewer people living here than in the other house. My husband passed away, and my brother and his wife, who were living in the basement at the other house, have moved into their own place.

[redwitch]

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]

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

[joeglow3]

58. We've had both

I liked private more. I could throw out anything and they would take it. There are so many restrictions with city service that it sucks at time.

[dionysus]

62. huh.. i've tossed couches and shit before, they just send a different truck by, one with a robotic

style crane arm.

[Go Vols]

63. Same here

they will pick up just about anything smaller than a car.

[joeglow3]

65. Not here.

Can't be more than a three cans. Can't weigh over a certain amount. Has to be in a certain container. If you need to get rid of something big, you are on your own.

We do have a neighborhood trash day once a year where we can take trash to a central location. We redid our bathroom three months ago and I still have the old bathtub in our garage. Only two more months and I can finally get rid of it.

[dionysus]

66. wow, here you can remodel a house and leave all the stuff in a pile on the curb, they'll take it!

[ChazII]

3. No. Once a week. n/t

[ohheckyeah]

5. No...

we live rural. My husband takes ours to the dump once a week.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. No. I haul my own trash.

[redwitch]

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]

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. Sorry

[NutmegYankee]

13. I have to haul it to the transfer station.

An annual pass is $55. At least they are open on weekends.

[pipi_k]

41. Yeah, same

here except it's $50 for a yearly permit

and recyclables are free, but regular non-recyclables are $2.00 per bag, with variable fees for things like old appliances, etc.

[trackfan]

15. Once a week - by the city. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Yes.

Waste Management, $37 per month for the duplex pickup (two BIG garbage cans, one for each unit.)

[Spirochete]

19. The county picks up mine

once a week.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

23. I surreptitiously take my garbage to various manufacturing facility dumpsters around town

stickin' it to the man! No, not really. We burn our garbage and spread the ashes over the Spokane River.

No. Actually, we have our garbage service through Waste Management. We recycle approximately twice as much as we throw out.

[njlib]

24. I used to have Waste Management

but each time the gasoline prices went up, so did the quarterly bill. When gas prices would go down, the bill would stay the same, then go up again with the next round of gas increases. For the past few years, I've been taking everything to the dump myself. If I remember correctly, my last quarterly bill was $150+tax. I now spend about $30-40/quarter at the dump. If I take a load of recycling, it's no charge. I can also drop off recyclables in town for free, so that's usually what I do because the dump is 20 minutes away. The dump also takes anything, so I don't have to call and pay extra for furniture, appliances, etc. They accept whatever I haul.

I have a pickup truck...if I had a car, I'd probably still be using a private company.

[REP]

25. Private; GreenWaste; once a week

A huge recycling bin; a giant yard waste bin and a small landfill bin. We almost never use the yard waste one (we compost); the landfill one gets one 1/4 filled bag (there's no food waste with cats, chickens and skunks) and the recycle bin is usually half filled. There's just two of us, and we try to reuse what can reuse ourselves.

[raven mad]

26. Did not read any responses.

No. I take the trash to our "transfer stations" and dump recyclables where they tell us to.

But, no, no pickup - ever. We do it. We "recycle" - as we can. And anything useable gets put in the area for that.

The only folks here who get their "garbage pickup" done, pay for it. Dearly. My father-in-law did. Until one of his "diapers" got scanned for an "unknown substance". It was baby powder. So we hauled his trash, too.

[ladyVet]

27. Ours is, we live out in the country so no city services.

We pay quarterly, and it's pretty cheap, I think about $30 (my son pays the bill, so I don't remember off hand exactly). My parents live next door, and they put their trash in with ours. We used to have an arrangement where we could put our trash in a company dumpster, but due to folks making a mess of it and the surrounding area, that was stopped.

We used to have to use our own cans, but the company upgraded their trucks and switched to one of those big wheeled jobs, which we rarely fill all the way (pick-up is weekly). Big stuff gets taken to the county landfill as needed, which is hardly ever -- we keep stuff until it's unusable or broken beyond repair.

We recycle everything we can, and take it down the street to a center maintained by the county. Food waste is composted, other than meat (very little of that leftover!), along with garden waste.

Having pickup is convenient for us, because the landfill is on the other side of the county. It's a long drive, and we'd have to hook up the trailer, which nobody likes to haul, and we currently don't have a vehicle with a hitch. So, big pain in the butt. Plus we'd have to pay anyway, so we feel having the service is better all around.

[hollysmom]

28. mine is twice a week. but I usually

throw garbage out one can a month. Unless I go on an insane cleaning binge. Still a lot of that goes into recycling. I recycle every week. papers, cans/bottles and appliances or computer stuff. Last time I cleaned it was paper and floppy disks that I mostly got rid of - clothes get washed and given to the shelter or cut up and turned into rags. They even recyle sneakers in this town - Yes we were the number 1 town in recycling in the state.

[TorchTheWitch]

29. Yes and no, and it's twice weekly

The township picks up the regular trash very early in the morning in my neck of the woods, and several hours later a private company picks up the recyclable trash on the same days. The township provides the barrels for the recyclable trash for all residents of the township.

The township also has enormous metal bins outside the police station for various types of recyclable trash that people can bring their recyclables to for dumping.

The township charges home owners some nominal yearly fee for residential trash pick up which I think is around $50 or $60. Since I'm a renter the home owner pays that, and I think that's required by lanlord/tenant laws here.

[Scuba]

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.

[WinkyDink]

31. Yes. No choice. Township doesn't do it.

[B Calm]

32. We never had anybody pick up our trash. We

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live out in the country and take 85% of it into town to a recycling center. The remaining trash goes on the compost pile for the vegetable garden.

Scrap steel, etc is picked up by a young man after I call him (for free) and he takes in and makes a little money by selling it

[My Good Babushka]

33. Yes. Once a week by Waste Management

We buy blue garbage bags from the city, available at all grocery stores, for $2 a pop. They are pretty big bags. We have recycling picked up 2x a month now, and we've started composting our food waste, so we only put out an actual garbage bag once every two or three weeks, and we even throw in our elderly neighbor's garbage every week, so she doesn't have to buy bags. It still takes us two weeks to fill a bag.

I would rather have public works do garbage, but it's been this way since we moved here, we haven't voted on it.

[newfie11]

35. Yes but we live out of town, in the county.

Cost for a regular size garbage can, pick up once a week is $300 a year or you can break it down to monthly.

[JustAnotherGen]

36. Town taxes cover it here

We were leaning heavily towards another town when we bought our home last year - but even though we would have paid the same average taxes as Flemington NJ - Somerville NJ nickels and dimes home owners to death. We also get recycling every other week under our taxes.

Pulling together as a community of many is far better than everyone for themselves in terms of cost.

Why doesn't your council go back and re-negotiate the contract? I can't believe they can't get a better deal than an individual home owner or renter would get . . .

[sendero]

37. Yes..

.... but I don't put it out every week. If there aren't at least 3 bags I don't bother.

I pay $18 a month for the service, which agrees to collect up to 8 bags each visit.

[Earth_First]

38. Our village DPW collects our trash/recycling weekly.

Mondays and Wednesdays.

Our village taxes support the collection.

[piratefish08]

39. haul it every saturday to the transfer station - I actually look forward to it.......

good time to say hello to the rest of the village........


small town living. I love it.

[magical thyme]

40. No. I live rurally and take my own trash to the dump

I don't generate a lot, so I only go every couple months in winter, and every few weeks in summer. I see people from all walks there. Takes about an hour of my time, between loading it, driving there, unloading, driving home. Roughly 15 miles total, and I tie it in with other chores since I pass food store and post office. Our food store has hand wipes in the entrance so I can clean up my hands before I start handling food.

I've done it for 10 years now, initially to save money but now also to limit access to my property. I have several jerks for neighbors and have had to post to protect my animals.

[MerryBlooms]

42. Our village DPW collects our trash/recycling weekly on Friday $19.83 monthly, and

in the fall we rake our leaves to the road for vacuuming. The village will also remove landscape debris for a flat rate yearly fee of $75. During the 'High Wind' events, the village will pick up that debris free of charge.

[MineralMan]

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.

[BainsBane]

54. Yet more proof that Minneapolis is better

Ours is municipal, both garbage and recycling. Our roads are also plowed more quickly.

[MineralMan]

60. Neener, neener, neener...

[FarCenter]

44. The mafia takes it away.

[redwitch]

47. LOL!

Not funny but still...

[Ruby the Liberal]

45. The city contracts a private company

We pay $205 a year for once a week pickup. No options - it is billed by the treasury department who also does our taxes.

[Blue Diadem]

46. Weekly, 5 can limit, About $35 per quarter

We're a small town and the company is the predominant one. There's another one we can use that serves many of the rural areas, but they only allow their own trash can, which I think there is a rental fee & I've heard their pickup fees are higher. If we need something larger picked up, we can purchase a tag for it and they'll take that too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

48. Twice weekly. City of Houston. Part of taxes.

[femmocrat]

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.

[SomethingFishy]

50. Yup.. Once a week, trash and recyclables

15 bucks a month. I'm in Colorado there is a lot of competition here but most companies are about the same price..

[tammywammy]

51. The city has a contract with Republic Services.

Twice a week pickup, once a week recycling. Costs $12.90 a month.

[tularetom]

52. Nope, my trash is hauled to the dump about once a month

There are very few homes in this part of the county and there is no contract for waste collection.

In fact until recently, a lot of people around here had burn barrels. Eventually the county health dept. put an end to that but only after a huge fight from some borderline survivalists that have moved into the area.

Actually the dump trips have turned into social occasions for a lot of us since they are the only time we see each other.

[Skeeter Barnes]

53. I work in the sanitation dept. (Public Works) in my town. Every ward is picked up once every week.

And we pick up a separate recycling can bi weekly. I could be wrong but I think it's $6 per week and that includes brush pickup once a month and bulky item pick up every Monday. We pickup dead animals within an hour of someone calling it in, usually. Nobody in the city limits has private pickup that I'm aware of. Private outfits do a lot of dumpsters, though.

And city employees get health insurance at no cost. Never have worked anywhere else that was like that but it just about makes it worth doing this job. It is nasty as hell, some of the stuff you have to deal with.

[arely staircase]

55. no the city comes by twice a week, once for general trash and again for recyclables

fwi small canservative deep southern city.

[sakabatou]

56. Waste Management, I think

[doc03]

57. Waste Management every Thursday $46 a month, we cheat two of us

share $23 each we only have 1 bag each. Some people have a half dozen.

[ileus]

59. Every Thursday even on Holidays...

except Christmas.

They have never failed in the 7 years I've lived here.


26/mo

Once a month they also pick up anything smaller than a car.

[CTyankee]

61. Once a week. Garbage and recycles both.

City workers. Union. it's a good deal, IMO...

[PATXgirl]

64. Twice a week by a private company as we are outside city limits. About $78 quarterly. Same company

Has a contract to pickup trash within city limits when we lived there. Still twice a week but much cheaper through the city.

[brooklynite]

67. My trash is currently NOT picked up by the City...

...because the Sanitation Dept is also responsible for snow plowing, so the trucks keep getting diverted on pickup days.

[RebelOne]

68. I live in a mobile home park and trash pick-up

is included in the monthly lot rent. We have trash and garbage pick-up twice a week. I think it is a private company.