What do you do with your large items....

[momtomany]

That you have for trash/disposal......I have some drywall broke up in a pile in the garage and i have a shed I want to break down (it is rusted out and broken and in such bad shape). Not sure what to do with larger items? Also, got a lot of old fencing that is in terrible rotted shape and mattress springs. Sue

[ladycat]

Any dumps in the area? When we have large stuff, I pile it up in the driveway. My brother backs his pickup up, loads it, and carries it to the town dump.

[mnn2501]

Do you have regular trash pickup? if so call the company that does it and ask them, my compnay will do large pickups by request, you may have to pay them a few bucks extra -- mine charges $10 for extra pickup so its minimal (its done at the same time as regular pickup, the guys just have to get out of the truck and throw it in.) I do have to have it piled next to where they pick up the cans.

[jlxian]

DH will disguise that kind of stuff in boxes and tape them shut and set them out with our trash. So far they have taken everything he puts out.

I don't know what scrap metal is getting now, but you might look into taking the metal to a scrap dealer and see if they want it.

[ronbre]

bust the drywall up and put it out in the property..it is gypsum and will feed your soil

bust up the rotten wood and put it out into beds..it will feed your soil

put the unusable larger pieces of metal on a truck, take it to a metal recycling center..and bring home cash...it will feed you

[Windy in Kansas]

If the mattress springs are the old open kind keep them around. They are excellent for preparing a yard for new grass after it has been roto-tilled. Getting hard to come by so squirrel them away somewhere or give them to someone for that purpose.

I'll be using some in a short while for new lawn at new home construction site.

Many landfills now have a construction debris cell where the drywall and shed remains would be properly disposed of. It is separate from the other landfill portion.

Metal shed? Some salvage value there in all probability.

[Wolf mom]

I have no trash pick up in my area so regular stuff goes into a friends trash in town. I feed the chickens and do burn whatever I can, so it's usually just cans & plastic.

The city has a large trash pick up day two times a year so my large things go there then. The city also has a free dump week tied in with your electricity bill (to verify address), so we use my truck and her address. Works for both of us.

[meanwhile]

Use everything you can -- cans and plastic containers can be saved to use as planters or for scoops...lots of uses. Anything that will rot can go in a compost pile. We have one pile we save for "junk" like paper, cloth, small pieces of rotten wood....we do toss manure in there to help it along but we only stir it up about once a year. It will rot.

Burn some things - we keep a large burn pile and just toss some things on there. Then about 2 times a year we burn it up, then use the burned stuff in the orchards.

We keep a pile of things that just have to go to the dump, but really, we have not been to the dump in about 3 years. We have two neighbors who come fetch whatever they want out of the "dump pile" and usually they take all of it. Metal, old pieces of fences, plastic barrels we did not need.....the kids took some stuff and melted it down in art class.

Good luck -

[Wis Bang]

I've been clearing out dad's garage; light iron is around $4.50/100 pounds [or $04.5/lb]. Aluminum is $0.10/lb Stainless Steel is $0.70/lb and 316 Stainless is $0.90/lb; I had 283# of 316 nuts & bolts and a couple hundred more of 'regular stainless...made more on the stainless than I did in several thousand pounds of steel...All in all I gave mom over $500.00 from the scrapyard, she was happy.