On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:12:12 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:15:09 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:11:06 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:32:01 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 1/29/2016 8:08 PM, John H. wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:23:42 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:42:11 -0500, John H.
wrote:

We're lucky here also. Huge trash barrel, probably the same size as yours, and a
recycle barrel that's about as big. Paper, cans, bottles, and plastic all go into the
same recycle container. Each are picked up weekly. Brush is picked up weekly also.
Must be smaller than 6" diameter, which is pretty damn big! And the bundles are not
supposed to be more than six feet long. Have to admit I'm very satisfied with the
trash removal in this county.
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Lee county is pretty good too. We provide our own cans for trash but
they are looking at the 65 gallon Totes.
The trash guys take anything we set out there although the scrappers
will snatch anything metal, including white goods.
When I remodeled the bathroom, they took about half a ton of old tile,
stucco, drywall, wood and whatever from the demolition.
We already have the 65 gallon Tote for the single stream recycle.
I think they burn everything but the metal and glass tho. They do ship
a token amount of paper and plastic but I bet it isn't 10%. It is all
PR. Environmentally, burning it in our high tech incinerator has to be
better than trucking it 1000 miles or more to a recycle plant.
I judge that by asking, how much is scrap paper/plastic worth at a
local scrap dealer and the answer is zero.

I have no problems with the horticulture guys either. They say
anything less than 50 pounds but they took a 100# tree stump I wanted
a few weeks ago. It was too close to the curb ;-)

After Charlie they sent around claw trucks and took everything, no
matter how it was cut up. I filled up a whole 40' trailer and a bit
more.

We get five special pickups a year. That can include a whole tree or whatever. They
use the big claw trucks for that.
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Ban idiots, not guns!

Thank god we live in civilized places where we are not expected to carry
our own garbage to the dump.

We can also take it to the dump, but have to pay a fee to do so. If the load is more
than four or five bags, the truck gets weighed and the charge is by the pound.

The last time I went out to the dump, they had dumpsters outside the
fence you could use for free. I suppose they think that is better than
having to pick it up on the side of the road.

Not here. But, I can't recall seeing trash dumped alongside the road on the way to
the dump. Like I say, if it's just a few bags, it's free.

That is what the dumpsters are for.
In the places in the county with dirt roads they set dumpsters on the
hard road for the people living down there because the trash trucks
won't drive on dirt.