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My county officials and my solid waste company. Idiots!

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Our waste removal company is doing the same thing. If garbage is not bagged and in the provided cart (96 gal capacity), they won't be picking it up. This way the garbage collection process is hands-free for the collectors. The truck picks up and empties the cart, no touching the extra bags that might have cooties. I'd certainly rather have that happen than the possible alternative - collectors not coming to work and everyone's garbage sitting there for many weeks. In the scheme of things right now it ranks as a really, really minor inconvenience.
 
lxskllr said:
Why wouldn't glass go in recyclables? Are you some kind of mandatory return state?
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Often times it is not profitable to recycle glass versus just making new glass, so some recycling collectors have stopped accepting it, or they accept it and then send it to a dump.
 
ponyo said:
One 96 gallon container for trash and one 96 gallon container for recycling. You have to cook insane amount to fill 96 gallon trash can in one week. Especially when you have separate 96 gallon recycling bin.
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Actually, the county Czar dictated the recycling containers be smaller than 96 gallons. BTW, I had three bags this week and my recycling bin was full. During the day yesterday I drove by a neighbor's house. A young couple of one newborn child. Two full 96-gallon bins plus a recycling bin all full. I should have taken a picture. And since nothing can be outside the bin, like an oversized cardboard box, this is going to force people to chop down boxes and put the recycling bin out more often. Before this wasn't the case as we had been previously told to not chop anything down and leave it beside the bins.
 
pete6032 said:
Often times it is not profitable to recycle glass versus just making new glass, so some recycling collectors have stopped accepting it, or they accept it and then send it to a dump.
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Mine stopped about a year and a half ago and stated clearly it was due to on the job injuries. So, instead og doing something to make the process safer for their employees, they chose not to recycle it.
 
MtnMan said:
If you have such a noticeable increase in your trash volume for only two people, you really need to re-visit how much waste you are producing.
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I do not understand this. If we previously ate half our meals at restaurants and now doun't why should the amount of in-home meal trash not double since the number of meals are doubled? Seems like simple math to me.
 
PowerEngineer said:
Households with "four, five or even more people" usually include kids, and I'm willing to bet that parents do not have the time, money, and energy to make sit-down restaurants a frequent part of their weekly routines. We certainly didn't. Your garbage apocalypse may be the exception rather than the rule.
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Not specific to me, but my county. It is VERY normal for parents to pickup and dump their little shites at the mall and then have them dine in the food court for dinner. If it is not the parents doing the school-to-mall thing it is one of their friends. My county, like I imagine the rest of Atlanta, are notorious for eating out as much as they can. The amount of disposable income in my area is amazing, but then watching kids as young as eight running around with thousand dollar cell phones is the norm.
 
I don't understand how two adults can produce so much garbage. I'm a single adult and I barely fill one of those black 30 gallon trash bags every week, and that's even with crap from woodworking or projects.
 
Its OK if you don't understand. That is the same exact statement I guess my county and solid waste company are taking with my not understanding them reducing service while in a time one should expect an increase.
 
BarkingGhostar said:
Its OK if you don't understand. That is the same exact statement I guess my county and solid waste company are taking with my not understanding them reducing service while in a time one should expect an increase.
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Let's be real, no one is going to sympathize with you. Our household of 4 could barely fill a single trash container every week and we cook at least 3 meals a day every day.
 
we have a 96 gal recycling and a 50 trash. 2 people in our house, plus one in the attached apartment. we almost never fill the 50 between the 2 units in a week, and the 96 is usually full after 2 weeks, though less full now that the guy in the apt. quit drinking so much beer. we have seen only a slight increase in waste due to being home a lot.
huge increase in having to do dishes though!
 
BarkingGhostar said:
I do not understand this. If we previously ate half our meals at restaurants and now doun't why should the amount of in-home meal trash not double since the number of meals are doubled? Seems like simple math to me.
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How much do you throw away after any meal? How much packaging is on the food you do buy. Sounds like you warm/nuke prepared food that comes in boxes, trays, etc. instead of actually cooking.

Tonight I cooked salmon, two vegetables, and all the waste/trash from preparation would not fill a small paper cup. Granted the amount of trash will go up proportionally to the increase of home cooking, but to be a problem is a clear indicator you are creating way too much waste per meal.
 
BarkingGhostar said:
Not specific to me, but my county. It is VERY normal for parents to pickup and dump their little shites at the mall and then have them dine in the food court for dinner. If it is not the parents doing the school-to-mall thing it is one of their friends. My county, like I imagine the rest of Atlanta, are notorious for eating out as much as they can. The amount of disposable income in my area is amazing, but then watching kids as young as eight running around with thousand dollar cell phones is the norm.
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And now they have them home 24/7, and are trying to figure out why they are unruly monsters.
 
allisolm said:
Our waste removal company is doing the same thing. If garbage is not bagged and in the provided cart (96 gal capacity), they won't be picking it up. This way the garbage collection process is hands-free for the collectors. The truck picks up and empties the cart, no touching the extra bags that might have cooties. I'd certainly rather have that happen than the possible alternative - collectors not coming to work and everyone's garbage sitting there for many weeks. In the scheme of things right now it ranks as a really, really minor inconvenience.
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It is quite possibly the dumbest shit I have ever seen. They started doing that in my area as well.

I've seen what it's like at a recycling processing plant... The first thing they would have to do is take the fuckin' items OUT OF THE BAG. What purpose does it serve other than wasting plastic in the false name of "safety"?
 
I do not think I am any different than my neighbors. Sure, there are variations. I understood why mine increased, but how then does that explain others. And yes, most of my meals are nuke-based with packaging. Wife and I do no cooktop/oven/grill cooking.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
I've seen what it's like at a recycling processing plant... The first thing they would have to do is take the fuckin' items OUT OF THE BAG. What purpose does it serve other than wasting plastic in the false name of "safety"?
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It doesn't apply to recycling (at least where I am), only garbage, which nobody removes from the plastic AFAIK.
 
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