Trash Service

debodun

debodun

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way upstate in New York, USA
If you don't mind telling, what do you pay a month for trash removal? We just hot a big hike. Now I'm paying close to $50 a month (an that includes the senior discount) and I usually only have three small bags a week that look lost in the bin. They also say we may have to go back to sorting recyclables (currently on single-stream recycling).
 

It's included with my condo fee as is water, snow, leaf, landscaping, etc so I don't know. We;re not allowed to burn but paper can be recycled.
 

I live in a mobile home community, and just a couple years ago the park management started paying for our trash pick up. So, everyone in the park has the same hauler, and it all gets picked up the same day. Before the switch, I paid about $45 or so, quarterly
 
Yes it's included in our local taxes...council tax... which pays other services too in our area like libraries,
roadworks,

  • Housing and homelessness
  • refuse collection and street cleansing services
  • Environmental health
  • leisure services
  • planning and building control
  • Police services..
.. and we also have 3 recycling bins. Our taxes for that work out at £152... per month.... which is about $200 US
 
Prior to moving out to the hinterlands, we had to buy special (bright green) trash bags for garbage for $1 each. As I recall, they came in rolls of 20. Good sized bags - probably around 40 gallons. "Acceptable" recycling went to the curb separately (and for free).

Now that we're in the boondocks, I have to take it to the transfer station, a pleasant 15 minute drive from our home. I've been sorting our recycling (plastic, glass, metal, paper) for ages, so that's not a big deal to me. During the warmer months, I take the garbage, along with whatever recycling bins are getting full, to the transfer station once a week. The rest of the year, it's every 2-3 weeks. The only cost is a $5 annual sticker and gas. As this is about the only "exercise" our Toyota Tundra gets any more, it's a win-win situation.
 
Included in our property taxes, too. However, there have been attempts to have $10 a month trash pickup fee. So far, no go. I don't know how they would plan to avoid picking up trash and recycle bins for those owners who opt not to pay. And how would it be billed? Basically they would have to raise the property taxes to include a trash pick-up fee; that's the only thing I can think of.

For those that are billed for trash pickup, how does that work?
 
Tommy said:
Prior to moving out to the hinterlands, we had to buy special (bright green) trash bags for garbage for $1 each. As I recall, they came in rolls of 20. Good sized bags - probably around 40 gallons. "Acceptable" recycling went to the curb separately (and for free).

Now that we're in the boondocks, I have to take it to the transfer station, a pleasant 15 minute drive from our home. I've been sorting our recycling (plastic, glass, metal, paper) for ages, so that's not a big deal to me. During the warmer months, I take the garbage, along with whatever recycling bins are getting full, to the transfer station once a week. The rest of the year, it's every 2-3 weeks. The only cost is a $5 annual sticker and gas. As this is about the only "exercise" our Toyota Tundra gets any more, it's a win-win situation.
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But what about people who don't drive and don't have the physical fortitude to go through all that effort?
 
Its $98 every 2 months for weekly pick up so that made my husband mad and now he takes ours to the transfer station about 10 miles from us. He has a special trailer he uses for that and it's $15 a load. We use a 13 gallon plastic garbage bag in our kitchen and we just tie it closed and put it in the trailer. We recycle our cans and plastic water bottles and turn them in once a month.
 
We get trash picked up twice a week, and recycle twice a month. I think it's about $50 a quarter.
 
We don't pay for garbage or bottles and cans....It's just probably what we pay in taxes in our town....2 days a week for garbage pick up and 1 day in a week for bottles and cans....
 
Olivia said:
But what about people who don't drive and don't have the physical fortitude to go through all that effort?
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In my experience, those folks don't choose to move out to rural areas. It would be very difficult. For those who have been residents for a long time but then, for whatever reason, can no longer manage certain activities - well, that's what neighbors are for.
 
That's another perk about living in the boondocks....I pay nothing. If its edible, the critters get it...if its combustible, I burn it in my burn pit....and any metal, glass, etc., I take to a local recycle center about 5 miles away. There is a local trash service that charges $15/month, but I have no need for it. Since we've been here...about 16 years...that's over $3,000 I haven't needed to spend.
 
Butterfly said:
Water, garbage and sewer are lumped together into one bill here and it is about $40 a month. I think a good chunk of that is water, since we live in the middle of a desert and water is at a premium.
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I suspect that your rate is heavily subsidized through your property taxes. We have no shortage of water in New England, and four years ago in Maine our average monthly sewer charge was $51, water was $32, and as noted earlier, we paid $1 per bag for curbside garbage pickup.
 
about $12/month. ..but there's no recycling program here....we moved from NC and they had a county yearly tax for any solid waste of $7/year...and lots of nearby convenience sites with total recycling capabilities
 
Less than 20 bucks a month. We get weekly trash pick-up (1 large container), twice a month recycle pick-up, once a month yard waste pick-up, and twice a year bulk waste pick-up. Seems like a bargain compared to you.
 

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