What do you do with your trash?

Looks like many people here are lucky enough to have access to a dump. Here, you either pay for a garbage truck to come out weekly or you pay someone liscensed to take your garbage to the dump. We burn alot of our trash, compost anythng that can be composted but the glass ( meaning unuseable glass- I do reuse jars if possible for canning/storage) and metal and unuseable plastic (I save milk jugs and plastic bottles for making scoops, funnels, to carry water, ice bottles for rabbits, etc) we have no place for. I did have someone come out and pick through our large metal pile and take quite a bit of the metal so it is now down to a few trash cans of of crushed cans and old xmas lights and assorted old car parts and batteries which sit inside an old plastic garden pond until we can figure out what to do with it. The gal who took the metal would not take the buckets of cans at the time as they were not crushed and had water in them. I probably could get someone to take those away now that they are crushed. Ravenlost- great idea for the cat litter. Maybe I should fill the rat holes in the ground around my coops with the used cat litter....think that will help deter them from entering my coops? Used motor oil, we use it to get the burn pile going. Now once the burn pile gets too high with ash, about once a year, we shovel it all out and spread it in the poison ivy patch behind the trees. We thought it might help to kill it, but never did. We do not use it anywhere the animal roam or where we garden.

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you dont say where you are in MO

WE burn burnables, take recyclables to the town square on SAt mornings and buy trash tags for $1.50 a bag for light bulbs, aerosol cans, batteries etc...

If you will be near Howell County, Texas County let me know and I will give you the particulars.

we have a friend who is a mechanic and he sells unfixable cars to the crusher...so when he has one ready to go, he will call us to see if we have any metal to dump... we dump it into the vehicle for him...

we get rid of the metal and he gets a bit more for the vehicle

We have recycling pick up every other week here in our corner of WI, and garbage pick up every week.

Garbage (bag) pick up is $1.50 per bag, paid by purchasing a sticker at a local store. Recyling includes paper, cardboard, cans, alum. cans, and #1&2 recyclable plastic. Recycling is free, I wish they could take # 3-6, tho, and especially #5, which seems common with food.

Twice a month May - October is a "dump day" for things like scrap metal, furniture, appliances, tires, waste oil. Tires are $2 each, fridges, freezers are $10 each because of the coolant. Oil filters are .50 each, but we do burn those.

http://www.ides.com/resources/plasti...ling-codes.asp

These are the plastic recycle codes and uses. However, what is accepted varies from place to place. Locally they only want 1s and 2s. Anything else tossed in the dumpster at the county recycling center eventually goes into another one to go to a landfill.

Even then they don't want all #2s. For example plastic oil bottles/jugs as they may still have residue oil in them.

Even though there are uses for #3s and above, my understanding is recyclers want a single product from a source, such as waste from manufacturing, for quality control.

Added: Also note some containers can contain more than one grade of plastic. For example, a liquid laundry detergent bottle may be a 2, while the cap is a 5. Some places ask they be separated, but I've read when 2s are remelted, the heavier plastic sinks and is thus separated.