kraftdinner
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posted on September 24, 2004 09:43:01 PM
We pay $1.50 per bag for garbage. What do you pay and do you think it's a good idea.
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yellowstone
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posted on September 24, 2004 09:56:29 PM
I don't have garbage pick up where I live, instead I take my garbage to work and throw it in my bosses dumpster and I let him throw it for me. He knows that I do this, in fact I asked him beforehand if I could.
The real question should be; how much of your wasted household materials goes to the landfill and how much do you participate in recycling??
I recycle a little and I am thinking about recycling even more. I save aluminum and put it in bags out by the street and it disappears. There are people here that walk the streets and back roads picking up discarded beer cans to recycle for the cash.
It sickens me to see the amount of raw materials that goes into producing all the packaging and containers and then to have it just go to a landfill.
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profe51
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posted on September 24, 2004 10:44:21 PM
We pay 12 dollars a month, but we have to haul the bags 6 miles up the road to where our collection truck stops. It can't negotiate the last 6 miles of our road. My daily trip to work includes taking out the trash, Mondays are an especially long stop. We recycle glass and aluminum. My wife takes it all to town about once a month. We have virtually no "wet" garbage. The poultry eat pretty much all of it. Cardboard, newspapers and the like mostly get shredded in the chipper and go into the compost for the garden or else go onto the burn pile for disposal along with tree trimmings and other stuff we burn.
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Helenjw
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posted on September 25, 2004 05:44:08 AM
We are paying about the same as you, KD...maybe a little more per bag...two hundred fifty seven dollars a year. Nearly everything has to be recycled...newspaper, plastic, glass and tin. Grass clippings, leaves etc. have to be in seperate containers. And of course nothing can be burned.
[ edited by Helenjw on Sep 25, 2004 05:50 AM ]
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yeager
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posted on September 26, 2004 10:22:19 PM
In the city where I live, it's included in the city services for homeowners. I live in an townhouse and it's included in the rent.
When I was growing up, we lived just outside of the city limits in the township. We paid a private hauler about 8 dollars a month for hauling such things as cans and bottles. The rest, paper and cardboard items were burned. Almost everybody had a "burn barrel" in the back yard. That was usually a 55 gallon drum.
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maggiemuggins
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posted on September 27, 2004 08:20:18 AM
$14.00 a month.. absolutely no recycling in this area.. and burn barrel out back.
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etexbill
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posted on September 27, 2004 02:13:49 PM
$15.00/month. One pick-up a week and it has to be in bags or cans at the curb. No pick-up of limbs unless they are cut into small pieces and bundled. No burn barrell in the back. That is ILLEGAL.
This is why I load up a pick-up load of trash, take it to the ranch and burn it.
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yellowstone
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posted on September 27, 2004 04:25:47 PM
No pick-up of limbs unless they are cut into small pieces and bundled.
.....and what do you do with the torso's and heads?? Just kidding LOL
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dadofstickboy
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posted on September 27, 2004 04:41:29 PM
and what do you do with the torso's and heads??
Set them out for the recycler,ever heard of Transplants?
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dadofstickboy
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posted on September 27, 2004 04:43:35 PM
I pay $35.00 a quarter.
Don't recycle because they only take Items I can sell at salvage.
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profe51
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posted on September 27, 2004 05:37:10 PM
This is why I load up a pick-up load of trash, take it to the ranch and burn it.
Good solution, assuming it's your ranch! 
I have an ongoing problem here with low-lifes who use the washes accessible by my back roads as their little private dumps. Everything from tree trimmings to used pampers gets tossed in my arroyos, and I have to clean it up. We've bulldozed ditches across the most heavily used roads to cut down on the dumping. I'd love to catch somebody in the act
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dadofstickboy
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posted on September 27, 2004 05:45:06 PM
This is why I load up a pick-up load of trash, take it to the ranch and burn it.
Good solution, assuming it's your ranch!
Try doing that on my ranch and the:
Fire dept and the Police dept.
Would be here quicker than you could say: You didn't apply for a permit to burn, Here's your summons!And the fire Co. now needs a donation for being called out for a false alarm!
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etexbill
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posted on September 27, 2004 07:34:33 PM
It's my ranch. I can bury or burn anything I want to. You couldn't get the volunteer fire department to come out if you were burning off the whole place.
[ edited by etexbill on Sep 27, 2004 07:35 PM ]
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etexbill
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posted on September 27, 2004 07:41:57 PM
Hey, after all I am in Texas. The fire department or police department are pretty much going to leave you alone.
A few years back, after my mother went into a nursing home, a neighbor's sorry a** son was seen climbing out of the window in her house with anything he could steal. The witnesses refused to identify him before the Grand Jury because they were afraid of him. So I told the police that the next time I found him on her property, I would shoot him. Their reply: "Fine, just drag him back inside her house, when you do."
Hooray for Texas.
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etexbill
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posted on September 27, 2004 07:47:02 PM
prof5l: I've never had anyone dump anything on my ranch. It's just not done.
Maybe it's because Texans can carry guns legally and know how to use them.
[ edited by etexbill on Sep 27, 2004 07:48 PM ]
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yellowstone
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posted on September 27, 2004 08:00:58 PM
Profe51
Here's a solution for you that you may want to try. Instead of bulldozing ditches across the most heavily used roads Try bulldozing a pit big enough for a truck. Then cover the top with this sticks, leaves and dirt, camoflaged. Check it everyday and then if and when someone in a truck full of trash falls in it then just bulldoze it over and then go dig another pit.
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profe51
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posted on September 27, 2004 08:56:00 PM
Maybe it's because Texans can carry guns legally and know how to use them.
So can I, and I do. It's not just Texas where guns are legal you know. All the guns in Texas aren't enough to deter trespassers on our property, unless maybe each of those weapons was accompanied by a hired Tejano. My back roads aren't traveled much, and it's too big to watch it all. I have to run the ranch and work full time to boot, which doesn't leave a lot of time to go scouting for dumpers.
I like your idea yellowstone
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etexbill
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posted on September 27, 2004 09:17:21 PM
Quote: "So can I, and I do. It's not just Texas where guns are legal you know."
I realize that and was just trying to be a little funny. It didn't work! My place is not all that large and is fenced, some with an electric fence that won't kill you but make you wish it had. LOL
How many acres do you have? And don't tell me it is bigger than Rhode Island, like the King Ranch. There I go about Texas again.
Seriously, we do have a problem with some idiots dumping along the back roads. But Texas also has a reward and a free number to report dumpers and it is working.
Bill
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profe51
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posted on September 28, 2004 04:48:54 AM
We're not even close to being on a par with the King Ranch, but we do have quite a few sections. I use electric fences on my lamb pens and in the pastures near the house, they keep out critters, but I wouldn't count on them keeping out people. We have a reward system here too, but the problem is, there aren't very many people around to do the reporting!
Sorry I missed your humor, I was pretty grumpy.
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MAH645
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posted on September 28, 2004 05:37:14 PM
My trash pick-up is payed for by my landlord and I don't know how much it is. I would say most of the trash pick up in this county is done by the prisoners and people slink it out the windows faster than they can keep it picked up,but they do a great job.
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