Your Trash?

FarmerChick · #1 01/13/10, 11:03 AM

How do you handle your trash?

Pay the trash company to pick up at the curb?

Haul it yourself to the convenience center?

Burn or bury?

and DOES YOUR household produce ALOT of trash? More than you can believe sometimes?

Little Quacker in OR · #2 01/13/10, 11:13 AM

It's just me here and my three Aust Cattle Dogs plus a foster dog usually. I am very rural and we have a trash collection site up the road where I take my "stuff" about once a month or so. Quite reasonable, takes about 10 mins.

During the wet time of year we are allowed to burn our combustibles and I do that if I'm in the mood. Also have large spaces for recycling and I use them.
And Yes! I don't know where all this trash comes from I swear!!!!

LQ

Jan Doling · #3 01/13/10, 12:21 PM

We haul trash to the neighborhood dumpster where it is picked up twice a week. It's no big deal as I have drive past the boat ramp anyway. Everything burnable goes into our fire pit. I use the ashes to fill holes and make compost.

Cornhusker · #4 01/13/10, 12:29 PM

We have a dumpster that gets picked up once a month (if they make it).
It gets more expensive all the time, ($558.00 a year) we may have to drop it and do something different.

mnn2501 · #5 01/13/10, 12:44 PM

Its part of my water bill -- We're on city water.
Don't create a lot as we compost and recycle.

jassytoo · #6 01/13/10, 12:48 PM

We haul our trash to the landfill about once a month.Costs about 5$. They have recycle bins there that you can put stuff in for free. They also have a place for hazardous waste that you can leave stuff for fee.The rest you pay for by weight, minimum $5. We don't have a lot, just the two of us. We are not allowed to burn trash here.There is trash pickup here and recycle pickup. I think it's a private co. Last time I checked, which was a good while ago, it was around 8$ week. Don't know what the recycle fee is. Whole lot cheaper to do it ourselves even though it's an 18 mile drive.

jlxian · #7 01/13/10, 12:50 PM

A trash company picks ours up once a week; we pay 3 months at a time --- about $78 for 3 months, I think.

We usually put out 2 bags a week, plus a bag of used cat litter. We quit taking all of the newspapers except one Sunday edition so that has cut down our trash a lot. If we burned all of our burnable trash, we would probably have only one bag a week, or maybe even less.

oneokie · #8 01/13/10, 12:51 PM

Weekly pickup for household trash. Other is burned.

Thanks EPA and changes in real estate sale laws....................

wally · #9 01/13/10, 12:57 PM

Looks like iam gettin a deal. WE have 2 55gal barrels that we burn in. Both barrels are close to full . when are picked up.. If we have extra trash or some junk to get rid of we place it next to the barrels...we live 3/4 mile on a dirt road from the pavement..they collect once per month..no typo here.,.we pay $4.75 per month..lesss than 60 per year

majik · #10 01/13/10, 01:06 PM

We have weekly garbage pick up, for which we pay $1.25 a bag or $2.25 a can. We usually fill a can every three weeks. Recycling is every two weeks and is picked up as well and aid for through taxes. We burn all our clean paper as it's not recyclable here.

Wisconsin Ann · #11 01/13/10, 01:10 PM

We generate less than 1/2 a "tall kitchen trash bag"'s worth a week. Recyclables ... (they take almost everything you can think of that isn't actually toxic) maybe 1 18 ltr tub every 2 weeks. mostly soda bottles and burnables.

Everything that can be composted goes on the garden. Once I get out to the farm full time, I'll probably be begging for food waste for the worm beds and the chickens and the garden.

I figure we balance out the people down the street that, for 2 adults and 2 grade school kids, have 3 full containers of garbage weekly, and a HUGE pile of recylcables (mostly bottles and cereal boxes).

TGUT · #12 01/13/10, 01:20 PM

We can pay $20/month to have it picked up curbside or drive it 2 miles up the road to a collection site for free. We drive ours -- it's a regular weekly outing for the dogs who like to hang their heads out the window and sniff everything that passes by. Our closest recycling drop off is 35 miles away so we only take that 1-2 times a month. And we compost everything we can...

Our fullest bin is always the cardboard bin! Seems like everything is packaged in some form of cardboard anymore...

edcopp · #13 01/13/10, 01:42 PM

Wood burner, compost pile, and chickens help keep things in check. We recycle everything that we can, that means use it up. If some bits and pieces are left they can go to the recycle bin in town. We just do not have any cash to spend on trash.

7thswan · #14 01/13/10, 01:44 PM

It's added to our taxes. But I am suprised how much we have considering how little junk food(store food) we eat.

atobols · #15 01/13/10, 02:01 PM

We compost and recycle everything we can. Everything else gets separated into burnable and non-burnable. The non-burnable goes into a box that gets taken to the dump once a year. The burnable gets burned.

We are a family of 4 and we produce one kitchen size trash bag every two weeks which gets burned.

krische1012 · #16 01/13/10, 02:04 PM

Our trash is picked up once a week and we pay for it every three months (about $39). We are pretty rural and when we moved here I was surprised to find that we have trash pick up!

starjj · #17 01/13/10, 02:09 PM

I burn mine

I should add non burnables go to a friend who has garbage pick up

Tracy Rimmer · #18 01/13/10, 02:57 PM

We compost, recycle, burn our burnables, and do not use convenience foods or other things that have a lot of packaging, so we don't generate much by way of "has to be hauled away" garbage. I do a dump run about once every couple of months to get rid of anything that has accumulated, generally about four trash bags or so.

soulsurvivor · #19 01/13/10, 02:57 PM

I live in a county that has strict regulations against open burning and trash dumping. Fines are levied for any who oppose and do that, even on their own farms. Our garbage is billed with the county water bill and garbage is picked up once a week while landfill is open to county residents one weekend a month. Our water/garbage bill is about $32 a month.

halfpint · #20 01/13/10, 03:40 PM

We take a lot of stuff to the recycling bin about once a month. Most of our scraps go to the chickens or dogs. I thought we had a lot of trash, but with 4-5 people here, we usually only have 1 kitchen size trash bag a week and from what I've heard from other people that's not much. Since I put up a lot of our own food, and cook from scratch, we don't tend to have as much of the packaging to dispose.

Our area is looking into getting recycling pickup with the trash, which would be nice. We have trash pickup weekly.
Dawn