Does anyone use a wheeled container for recycling?

[Jumpem]

Something such as this:

I am wondering if they would expect me to bag the recyclables, or just fill it up without?

 

[trmiv]

We do. Everything that is recyclable just goes in there mixed together. It actually says do not put plastic bags in the bin.

 

[JulesMaximus]

We do. Everything that is recyclable just goes in there mixed together. It actually says do not put plastic bags in the bin.

So do we. There is a label on the lid that tells you what you can and cannot put in there.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We do. Also all mixed.

Yesterday I flipped the lid open, and it brushed a 6" long piece of scrap lumber on the workbench, which flipped, flew through the air, and landed on my foot, breaking my toe.

Always clean up your work area when you have completed a project. Always.

 

[stargazr]

Yes. Just fill it up. They do ask to flatten cardboard boxes.

 

[MongGrel]

What they said, yeah that is exactly how ours is, other than our tops are yellow.

 

[manimal]

We do. Also all mixed.

Yesterday I flipped the lid open, and it brushed a 6" long piece of scrap lumber on the workbench, which flipped, flew through the air, and landed on my foot, breaking my toe.

Always clean up your work area when you have completed a project. Always.

dude that sucks.


We just put the stuff in ours no bag. My mom visited one time and bagged stuff and they left a note not to.

 

[Jumpem]

Thanks for the responses. I have never watched our garbage men empty my trash can of the same style. I have no idea if they pick it up and dump it, or if they were reaching in for bags.

It sounds like at least for recyclables they just pick it up and dump it.

 

[DrPizza]

Technically, yes. Since a car is a wheeled container. I have to take mine to the dump/transfer station. I could get pickup at our house for the convenience (have to pay for the service), but it's only $150/year for almost unlimited garbage. (And with the projects around the house, I can generate quite a bit of scrap/waste.)

 

[TwiceOver]

Thanks for the responses. I have never watched our garbage men empty my trash can of the same style. I have no idea if they pick it up and dump it, or if they were reaching in for bags.

It sounds like at least for recyclables they just pick it up and dump it.

"Trash Men"? This is an automated container, a truck comes buy and picks it up with a robotic arm. You seriously have never seen this and think people actually do the work still?

 

[lxskllr]

I use a cardboard box from Aldi. It takes my groceries home, and my recyclables away.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

They are pretty much standard now a days. They really don't even get out of the truck, just use the arm thingy, pick it up, dump it and on to the next.

 

[nickbits]

"Trash Men"? This is an automated container, a truck comes buy and picks it up with a robotic arm. You seriously have never seen this and think people actually do the work still?

Here the garbage men wheel the garbage can to the arm which then empties it into the truck.

 

[Stopsignhank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ev_xhb0UsM

How the materials are sorted at the recycling center.

 

[TwiceOver]

Here the garbage men wheel the garbage can to the arm which then empties it into the truck.

If my garbage man has to get out of the truck, you get a sticky note "violation" on your can. If he has to do it regularly, you get a fine. If your can is even just cracked open at the top you get a "violation".

But then again our trash pickup is municipal. It might be different if you have a contract. Since they finally went to mixed recycling I only have to drop my trash at the street once a month, recycling every other week.

 

[Jumpem]

"Trash Men"? This is an automated container, a truck comes buy and picks it up with a robotic arm. You seriously have never seen this and think people actually do the work still?

My old trash can was a cheap round one. It ends up in a different spot and/or upside down after they come so someone must be picking it up. My current recycle bins are the small blue bins someone must be picking up by hand also.

I am not sure they use trucks with mechanical arms. Or they must have garbage men getting out at every other house if needed. I have also put large items or folded up boxes out that don't fit in a container and they are gone when I get home.

 

[rh71]

we can't - we are all given a yellow round basket with no wheels. But we throw everything mixed in there.

 

[jlee]

If my garbage man has to get out of the truck, you get a sticky note "violation" on your can. If he has to do it regularly, you get a fine. If your can is even just cracked open at the top you get a "violation".

But then again our trash pickup is municipal. It might be different if you have a contract. Since they finally went to mixed recycling I only have to drop my trash at the street once a month, recycling every other week.

I leave my trash/recycling cans too full to close completely fairly often - no complaints yet.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

So do we. There is a label on the lid that tells you what you can and cannot put in there.

Better be careful JM, I was threatened with fines, or arrest, 25 years ago in San Diego by a trashman!!! for using the wrong type of bag.
The guy came up onto my property to get my trucks license plate number.

 

[mizzou]

The acceptance of recylables/refuse from your trash providor is typically explicitly written in detailed instructions.

Each one is different, I've used "Single Stream" before, which is AWWWESOME. And right now I'm with a place where I can only provide SPECIFIC things and they have to be separated...and shock...I don't recycle near as much as I did before.

 

[Jumpem]

The acceptance of recylables/refuse from your trash providor is typically explicitly written in detailed instructions.

Each one is different, I've used "Single Stream" before, which is AWWWESOME. And right now I'm with a place where I can only provide SPECIFIC things and they have to be separated...and shock...I don't recycle near as much as I did before.

I know it is single stream. We were never provided with any instructions. We just asked our neighbors when we moved in what day they came by.

 

[Mixolydian]

DO NOT bag the recyclables.

Machines sort the recyclables at the facility, and bagging fucks everything up.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, those wheeled single stream recycling containers are great! Just fill them up and wheel them to the curb.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A couple years ago they changed our system to a special truck that has a robot arm that picks up the bin and dumps it inside. Recycling and garbage in same truck (two different compartments I presume). So everybody got two new bins that are basically the wheeled type but designed for those trucks. It's actually kind of nice since there's so much more room in them. I tend to only take them out maybe once a month. In the summer months I'll take the garbage out every week though to avoid bears/crows but in winter it's just frozen anyway.

 

[Jumpem]

Well Lowe's didn't have it in stock locally. Oddly enough, I can order it from Amazon for the same price and have it delivered four days earlier than Lowe's can get it to the store.