trash fees
Ohioguy
bundled together.
At our new city, they are separate. According to our neighbor, trash
pickup is $30 a month.
I was curious - is this high, low, average, or what?
I was tempted to call around and see if any private companies would
service us. We have water, telephone, electric, etc., but nobody has
contacted us about setting up trash pickup. I was wondering if we might
be able to set something up with a larger container and just twice a
month, or something like that.
Gordon
It's about average for a 60gal tip cart.
See if theree are options for larger or smaller carts.
We are paying less for a 30gal tip cart.
Cindy Hamilton
Ours is a line item on the water bill. I think it's under $20 a
month, but
I don't really look because I have no choice about it. Even if I
contracted
privately, the township would still ding me for the service. For
whatever
it is I pay, I get weekly trash pickup, biweekly recycling pickup,
each
in a cart provided by the trash collector. They're enormous. Maybe
95
gallons? Oh, and weekly yard waste pickup in spring, summer, and
fall. But I
only use that when I've been hogging out the trash shrubs that have
grown
up under our trees. I let the grass clippings lie, and mow the leaves
under
the trees to compost themselves. My township is fairly densely
populated,
but it's by no means a city. My street is mostly one-acre lots, but
there's
a subdivision at each end of the mile-long block.
Cindy Hamilton
Annie Woughman
a month. This can is huge. Most of the people in the neighborhood get the
35 gal can for $15.44 a month. We chose the largest because we have been
doing a lot of home improvement projects (including cleaning out the garage)
and so we have been generating a lot of rubbish. We saved several hundred
dollars by pulling up our old carpet and pad ourselves and cut it into
15"X15" squares with a box cutter and threw it away one can load at a time.
It only took a couple of months to get rid of it. That was six rooms of
carpet. I was telling one of the clerks at Lowes about it and he said he
had done his roof that way. Oh, and that price includes a recycle can of
the same size that is picked up every other week.
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Ours is $400/year, includes a huge trash cart and a large recycling cart,
both emptied once a week. It's private, since the local town refuses to pick
up trash and we don't have a dump in this county, so we have to pay for
pickup.
Malcom "Mal" Reynolds
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Ohioguy <no...@none.net> wrote:
If it isn't a requirement to have trash
service, you could always offer to share
with your neighbor...that would be
frugal.
In my city trash is contracted out to a
private service (WM) and as far as I can
tell is not mandatory. The good side of
having the service, besides the obvious,
is that you are entitled to three free
street pickups a year of basically
anything that can fit in a 4x8 pile (and
they don't really measure)
Dan Birchall
> At our new city, they are separate. According to our neighbor, trash
> pickup is $30 a month.
> I was curious - is this high, low, average, or what?
I suspect prices will vary from place to place, but for weekly pickup
(up to 2 cans, though I can rarely even fill one) by a small private
company, I'm paying $21/month. $30 doesn't sound too unreasonable.
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$10/mo here. Living in the country, we have a lot less need for trash
service. Yard waste? shove it in a pile or burn it. Wood or lots of
paper? Use a burn barrel about once or twice a year. Food waste?
You mean what gets tossed out for birds or cirtters or what goes in
the compost? In Florida we commonly had two or more big bags of
garbage a week, plus sometimes having yard waste that was about twenty
bags. Here we average one small bag a week.
SMS
That's about what we pay for trash, recycling, and yard waste bins, and
two bulk pick-ups a year.
I know in nearby San Jose there was a story of someone that didn't want
trash service because he had no trash (he got rid of everything by
private recycling, composting, etc.) but he was told that he had to sign
up for garbage service, and that it was not optional.
Nick Naim
> together.
>
> At our new city, they are separate. According to our neighbor, trash
> pickup is $30 a month.
>
> I was curious - is this high, low, average, or what?