Your Trash?

I used to have a dumpster in the city; we were supposed to recycle but didn't bother because we had friends in the "biz" so the cost of removal was minimal. When the EX lived with me, it was emptied every 3 weeks (he also had a printing business.) When he moved out, I reduced that to every 9 months because I could compost at long last and stop wasting "good stuff". Here in Ohio we could have trash service for $35/month but I recycle like a fiend and burn paper every 2 months. We visit the dump 3 times a year and pay $1.25 per bag of garbage; we never pay more than $5 a visit.

What county are you in soulsurvivor? I'm in Garrard Co KY. I have just started burning my trash, there's never any leftovers in food, scraps go to the dogs, cats and poultry. I recycle everything I can and save cardboard for the garden. Also started a compost pile, but don't have much to put in it

I still haven't figured out what to do with the turkey carcass and pork chop bones though! Any ideas? I could leave them out for the buzzards and foxes, but I don't want to harm them with the bones and more importantly I don't want to invite predators to my farm.

Also I now use clay cat litter for the indoor kitties and add that to the manure pile. I don't wonder where all my trash is coming from, there's very little. I DO wonder where the other peoples trash is coming from. Some people with curbside pick up have huge amounts of trash. Mary.

I crush any kind of bones by using a sledge hammer and a steel plate. I lay the bones on the steel plate and crush with the hammer using a churning motion. When the bones are crushed the chickens will eat them.

Our real estate taxes include trash pick up in our town.
They come once a week and one truck picks up the trash, another truck comes by for the recycling and a third truck comes by for leaf and yard waste pick up.
If you want them to pick up an appliance then you go down to the public works department and pay $10.00 and they send a truck for that but we just put ours on the curb and the guys that deal in scrap metal ride around looking for that stuff so they come by and pick it up for free anyway.

I have understanding family and friends who are always willing to take a bag when I visit. Otherwise, I burn and when needed take to local trash dump for $1 per bag.

We pay $10 a month for the county to pick up our trash every Thursday. The county also provides the big green heavy duty garbage can on wheels.

Despite my efforts to reduce, reuse, recycle we produce more garbage than I am happy with. Of course, my hubby keeps reminding me that it isn't just the two of us...the 16 dogs, nine cats, five horses, three chickens and the duck help produce quite a bit of garbage too.

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Locally the recycle center only wants milk-type jugs, clear plastic bottles, newspaper, cardboard and scrap iron. Other plastics go to landfill.

I was watching an episode of, I believe, How's it Made. Showed them taking other grades of plastic, chipping them up, heating them and then forming lump into a RR tie. Suspect this is similar to how they make plastic lumber.