Trash service put an item back in my bin

debodun

debodun

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I heard the truck come around yesterday. I looked out and the truck stayed in front of my house for more than the usual time. When I went to put the bin away, a shelf that I had removed form a kitchen cart was still in the bin. I wonder why they put it back, it's not like it was hazardous waste.
 

Do you have a specific recycle day for stuff like that?

I have a garbage service, that gives me a large heavy trash canister, and I can put 5 bags out every week, with a recycle day once a month- buy than again that is for newspapers and penny savers ,separated from catalogs, glass jars, and canned goods cans, and flattened boxes.

There is weight limit for the bags and I always fear the bags might be over the limit but then again, at my age, if I can carry a trash bag 100 feet down a slope and lift it into the trash bin, I guess it is below the weight limit.
 
Of course much of that "recycling" gets put right into landfills.

Plastic recycling a "failed concept," study says, with only 5% recycled in U.S. last year as production rises

Washington — Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."

Titled "Circular Claims Fall Flat Again," the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by U.S. households in 2021, only 2.4 million tons were recycled, or around five percent. After peaking in 2014 at 10 percent, the trend has been decreasing, especially since China stopped accepting the West's plastic waste in 2018.
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Stop buying bottled water!
 
debodun said:
I heard the truck come around yesterday. I looked out and the truck stayed in front of my house for more than the usual time. When I went to put the bin away, a shelf that I had removed form a kitchen cart was still in the bin. I wonder why they put it back, it's not like it was hazardous waste.
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So you didn't actually see them put the shelf back in the bin.

Here the bins are lifted by an arm that swings out, lifts the bin high over the dump hole then the lid swings open for the trash to fall into the truck. If that is the same way there it could be the shelf fell away & landed on the ground. Then rather than leave trash [the shelf] for you to pick up they took the time to do that for you.
 
there are certain things that the trash trucks will not pick up. it's possible they would not pick that up because they have special pick ups for things like that. here it costs $50 for a special pickup. also found this in a list of things they may not take:

Treated Wood​

Some treated woods have chemicals to help preserve them against insects, microbes, and decay. These chemicals become hazardous if they get into soil or water supplies. Not all treated wood is considered hazardous waste. The Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) is developing regulations for the handling of treated wood and has developed information on treated wood disposal.
 
Put it out again next week and see what happens.
I had some metal rods sticking up out of my bin and they didn't pick it up.
I cut the metal rods in half so they would fit entirely in the bin and no problem picking up.
Clearly that isn't your case, but just to point out what isn't seemingly acceptable one week may be no problem the next.
 
Knight said:
So you didn't actually see them put the shelf back in the bin.

Here the bins are lifted by an arm that swings out, lifts the bin high over the dump hole then the lid swings open for the trash to fall into the truck. If that is the same way there it could be the shelf fell away & landed on the ground. Then rather than leave trash [the shelf] for you to pick up they took the time to do that for you.
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Or it dropped on the ground and someone walking by tossed it in the bin.
 
debodun said:
a shelf that I had removed form a kitchen cart was still in the bin. I wonder why they put it back, it's not like it was hazardous waste.
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Our weekly trash pick up requires everything to be bagged and closed

We get a separate bin for recyclables
they don't require bags, just clean stuff

Twenty bucks a month

@debodun
You should have a pamphlet of instructions from your waste management company
If you don't have one, go online to get it
Read it
 
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RadishRose said:
OMG what was that thing doing in your house in the first place? 😀
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It wasn't IN the house. I was using it for a plant stand during the summer on the porch, then I thought it wasn't much good with that rusty hole in it, so I removed it and put it in the trash bin. At the old house, it was in the garage and they here it was in the tool shed for a while.
 
My trash company has many strict rules about things they won't ever take or will only take on certain days. Things like yard waste, old furniture, etc. So what I do is break those things down as best as I can, then hide them inside my white bags of kitchen trash with cereal boxes and potato peelings artfully arranged around said contraband.

It probably helps that I've told them that they are true heroes and to me they are the real first responders. We have a running joke of me trying to beat the truck to the bin with my last little bag of trash ... and I give them a large Christmas tip every year.
 
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