Garbage collection rant

[bignateyk]

We pay a monthly fee in our township for trash and recycling collection. We are allowed two neatly packaged items at the curb for trash. This can be two trash cans, two bags, etc...

I get it, you don't want to pick up loose debris from someones house, and you don't want to pick up 800 bags of garbage. Makes sense.

I only put my garbage out about once every 3 weeks because I don't generate very much. 99% of the time, even then, I only put out 1 trash can. Every once in a while I have two cans + 1 bag, or two cans + another item. Just this week I had two cans, and I put a pizza box that wouldn't fit in my can on top of one of the cans. You emptied my cans, then shoved the pizza box into the can and left it at my house. Really? You go through all the effort of moving the pizza box, then putting it into my can, when all you would have had to do is toss it 2 feet to the fucking garbage truck? Who the fuck do you think you are? You empty trash for a living.

From now on I want a refund for every week I don't put my trash out. If that is not the case, prepare to empty my trash cans every single week filled with unbagged dog shit.

 

[TwiceOver]

I hear ya. If the lid on my can (automated collection) is even slightly open they tag it with a nastygram and fine threat.

 

[Macamus Prime]

You empty trash for a living.

And you can't rip up a pizza box.

 

[Anubis]

that sucks

my garbage collection people will take pretty much anything,

and if they dont take it someone else generally will if you leave it out there for a day

 

[Capt Caveman]

You couldn't fold and squish the pizza box in the trash can?

 

[bignateyk]

You couldn't fold and squish the pizza box in the trash can?

The trash cans were full. Besides, you would think that trying to empty a trash can with a pizza box wedged in it would be a lot more difficult than just tossing the pizza box in separately. Thought I might remember that for the future. I'll just cram and wedge everything into the cans and make it impossible for them to empty them.

 

[Capt Caveman]

that sucks

my garbage collection people will take pretty much anything,

and if they dont take it someone else generally will if you leave it out there for a day

Same here. When I was renovating my house, I stuck doors, countertops, etc out there. However, they would only take one toilet a week. When I moved, I had a driveway full of trash for them.

 

[Brovane]

That sucks. Sometimes my lid will be at 45 degree angle and they will stay pickup the trash.

 

[Jeeebus]

Same here. When I was renovating my house, I stuck doors, countertops, etc out there. However, they would only take one toilet a week. When I moved, I had a driveway full of trash for them.

ya our trash guys are pretty awesome and will take just about anything. Occasionally my wife will put some cookies or something out if we have a lot of trash. Last week we put out about 100 lawn bags from cutting back the hedges - was surprised they took the entire mountain.

 

[Anubis]

Same here. When I was renovating my house, I stuck doors, countertops, etc out there. However, they would only take one toilet a week. When I moved, I had a driveway full of trash for them.

yep done the same, with old windows, random wood from renovating, old shutters, many gallons of paint, had a 6 ft mound of cardboard out there once, area rug that had been sitting outside for 2 months, actually i think someone took that before the trash people....

 

[Skitzer]

We pay a monthly fee in our township for trash and recycling collection. We are allowed two neatly packaged items at the curb for trash. This can be two trash cans, two bags, etc...

I get it, you don't want to pick up loose debris from someones house, and you don't want to pick up 800 bags of garbage. Makes sense.

I only put my garbage out about once every 3 weeks because I don't generate very much. 99% of the time, even then, I only put out 1 trash can. Every once in a while I have two cans + 1 bag, or two cans + another item. Just this week I had two cans, and I put a pizza box that wouldn't fit in my can on top of one of the cans. You emptied my cans, then shoved the pizza box into the can and left it at my house. Really? You go through all the effort of moving the pizza box, then putting it into my can, when all you would have had to do is toss it 2 feet to the fucking garbage truck? Who the fuck do you think you are? You empty trash for a living.

From now on I want a refund for every week I don't put my trash out. If that is not the case, prepare to empty my trash cans every single week filled with unbagged dog shit.

Cool story Bro!

 

[bignateyk]

Cool story Bro!

Thanks.

 

[olds]

Look, the pizza box will flatten out to about 3/16" thick. Garbage in the can will compress. You could have gotten the box into the can. You know it, I know it, ATOT knows it and the garbage man knows it. He was making a point.

 

[Skitzer]

Look, the pizza box will flatten out to about 3/16" thick. Garbage in the can will compress. You could have gotten the box into the can. You know it, I know it, ATOT knows it and the garbage man knows it. He was making a point.

No, he's lazy.

 

[JohnnyMCE]

my garbage men are strange from week to week. One week i had flattened out a bunch of boxes and placed them vertically in another box for trash day and they left the box and a nastygram saying they needed to bound with string instead of in a box. Yet the very next week they took a 200lb treadmill with black mold on it no questions asked.

 

[AstroManLuca]

The only annoying thing my garbage collectors do is put the garbage container in the middle of the driveway so it sort of blocks the garage. Not really a big deal.

 

[Lean L]

cue seinfeld reference

 

[Theb]

My garbage guys are pretty nice, they'll pick up the cans even if the lid won't close, even if it's been blown open by the wind. Twice they've forgotten to empty one of the cans, but it's not a big deal. I didn't have a bizarre class-related temper tantrum - decide they were beneath me and resolve to hate them forever like some kind of 18th century French Duke, I called the company and they grabbed it the next day.

 

[olds]

The only annoying thing my garbage collectors do is put the garbage container in the middle of the driveway so it sort of blocks the garage. Not really a big deal.

Our trash gets picked up by an arm on the truck. They lift and shake. They shook the lid off my yard waste can.
I called and they said they would replace it. They didn't. It's been half full of water from rain the last few times they picked it up.

I also have a retired neighbor. He walks down to the corner to get his mail. On the way back, he moves everyone's trash cans from the curb to up next to the house.

 

[ahenkel]

Trash people here are pretty good about picking up whatever you set out, but they do charge for every container above the first two

 

[Deeko]

Who the fuck do you think you are? You empty trash for a living.

Wow, you are officially an asshole.

He's following the rules he's given. Could he have made an exception? Sure - but who the fuck do you think YOU are to insult the man for his job?

 

[bignateyk]

Wow, you are officially an asshole.

He's following the rules he's given. Could he have made an exception? Sure - but who the fuck do you think YOU are to insult the man for his job?

I make their job easy by only putting my cans out every 3 weeks, and they can't cut a little slack every once in a while? I guess from now on i'll put them out every week with a couple napkins in them just so they have to stop and get out of the truck.

 

[CPA]

that sucks

my garbage collection people will take pretty much anything,

and if they dont take it someone else generally will if you leave it out there for a day

That's the different between municiple waste collection and private company collection.

My company (I work for a waste company) usually takes everything (except paint and construction material) from residential homes. And the company that picks my trash up will take as much as I have out there. In fact, right now there is a 120 square foot of carpet and underlay waiting for them, along with a bike, 2 tvs and a week's worth of normal garbage.

 

[Homerboy]

Our trash guys take pretty much anything we leave out for them (that will fit into the truck and can be lifted by 1 guy). I've thrown away A LOT of concrete slabs, bricks and wood from demolitions in the trash.

We leave them 3-4 cases of beer every Christmas

 

[Theb]

I make their job easy by only putting my cans out every 3 weeks, and they can't cut a little slack every once in a while? I guess from now on i'll put them out every week with a couple napkins in them just so they have to stop and get out of the truck.

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