I haven't heard that in a long time!
trash collection
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Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Atlanta GA
Where I live garbage collection is excellent. They leave the barrels where they where. Always during the summer and usually the winter they tip them upside down so they do not fill with water (less mosquitos) and leave the covers next to them.
They come twice a week for garbage and once a week for yard waste. As long as a tree trunk is about 1 foot long and weighes less than 40 pounds, it goes into the truck. Plus, they have taken 40 foot x 5 foot piles of brush and branches from my house.
For people I have cut down trees, they have basically taken the whole tree. One woman I cut down four pine trees and they took it all over a period of a month or so.
The yard waste is taken and turned in compost. You can go to the city center and get free compost. Plus, you get to dump three free truck loads of junk a year, for city residents, at the collection center. You can't beat that.
I have three Home Depots, a couple of Autozones, and a Radio Shack my city. I am loving Georgia
They come twice a week for garbage and once a week for yard waste. As long as a tree trunk is about 1 foot long and weighes less than 40 pounds, it goes into the truck. Plus, they have taken 40 foot x 5 foot piles of brush and branches from my house.
For people I have cut down trees, they have basically taken the whole tree. One woman I cut down four pine trees and they took it all over a period of a month or so.
The yard waste is taken and turned in compost. You can go to the city center and get free compost. Plus, you get to dump three free truck loads of junk a year, for city residents, at the collection center. You can't beat that.
I have three Home Depots, a couple of Autozones, and a Radio Shack my city. I am loving Georgia
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Joined: Jan 2003
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From: 3rd Rock
We have the robe trucks here, and every time they are in a big hurry, it is a mess out front.
They bring the trash container back down so fast it actually does not empty all the contents and places it all over the front of each house………….ug
They bring the trash container back down so fast it actually does not empty all the contents and places it all over the front of each house………….ug
Posting Guru
Joined: Oct 2003
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From: South Central In.
$68.00 every 3 months here in southern In, They come once a week, no robo, actual people, and yes they throw the cans into the yard and leave nasty notes when they feel you have overfilled....
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From: 3rd Rock
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Joined: Mar 2003
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From: Blue Hill Township
In MN, we have the robo trucks, and our can is always standing straight up. The lid might be flipped open, but thats no big deal. Someone always brings in the trash can soon after they dump it anyway. It is nice to be able to "properly dispose" of my oil filters and the like without the trash guys knowing.
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Joined: Jan 2003
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From: 3rd Rock
That is not very much trash, espically for a large family.
Not that I have any way of knowing that....
one guy in a house does not make much trash,
just alot of BS
no need to throw that away
Not that I have any way of knowing that....
one guy in a house does not make much trash,
just alot of BS
no need to throw that away
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Joined: Oct 2003
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From: South Central In.
Let's see, me, the wife, the boy, daughter-in-law, 2 grand daughters, and the cat...(insert adding machine noises here)....that adds up to approx. 35 kitchen garbage bags a week needing my tractor and trailer to haul it down my 1/4 mile driveway...
p.s. I wouldn't trade any of them for the world....
and Tim, you have a great family here!!!
p.s. I wouldn't trade any of them for the world....
and Tim, you have a great family here!!!
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Our community dictates that only one hauler can pick up and you pay something like $10.99 per month. They will pick up ANYTHING and seem to enjoy crushing big items. They will even pick up old applinaces if you call them at NO EXTRA CHARGE.
But it seems if you put something big or broken out the previous evening it gets hauled off by somone in the middle of the night. We've actually put old stuff on the curb and made bets on how long it would stay there.
But it seems if you put something big or broken out the previous evening it gets hauled off by somone in the middle of the night. We've actually put old stuff on the curb and made bets on how long it would stay there.