Perfect! I haven’t been using my backyard piles in the summer since the city started taking food waste. They were too hard to keep moist
Does your city waste recycling accept them?
I don’t know, because we home compost all our green waste. My city uses Waste Management Services.
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When you are stopping by the store and take advantage of a chance to stock up on good sale items to get to check out and are greeted with a huge clap of thunder and sheets of blowing rain.
And the rain jacket and umbrella are in the car
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Isn’t the whole country served by WM?
No.
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I chose not to have garbage pickup. Around 25 dollars a month. I enjoy going to the dump with personal garbage and construction debris every 3 weeks . Average is around 15 dollars.
Besides i would have to haul the can down the 250 foot driveway every Saturday. And the local bears know all about the schedule.
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When I was little, my rural grandparents used to burn their garbage in the back yard in an old oil drum. As did everyone else in their community. Obviously that doesn’t happen anymore … or at least I think it doesn’t.
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So Yogi and Boo-Boo have switched from Picnic Baskets to trash containers??
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These are ours.
They have a trigger lock much like a hood release on a car.
Recology doesn’t hand them out willingly however.
You have to bitch and moan to get them.
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Our city is served by the top two listed. Both are pretty much failures when it comes to residential trash and recycling pick up, which we were forced to join about 2 years ago. We were much better off being responsible homeowners and doing it ourselves. We’re so small and remote, I doubt the municipalities would consider alternatives.
Meals on Wheels for our bears.
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That’s probably why our city went with Republic’s Kodiak bear resistant containers. We’re on our third now. $15/month whether we use it or not. I have to say tho, in this hot weather, it is better than stinkin’ up the car when I’d take the load to the dump on my way past.
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Interesting! I guess the trucks are fitted to make it work. Is it to keep bears out? I work with a pre teen who is very much in to waste collection. I’ll have to show him that one!
We have Recology here too. I had no idea the waste collection companies covered such large areas!
We were going to live outside the “city”, but we live right on the edge; on the other side of our fence you have to use a well and haul your own waste. And sometimes fight your own fires.
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The lock is in the cylinder and the lever moves horizontally.
The opening is too small for a bear’s paws and that steel band that the lids sets in is pretty thick and strong. We consistently woke up to garbage everywhere from marauders before those.
They can knock them over but can’t get them open.
Recology bought out our local service about 20 years ago, seems like. They only have Ashland and Talent and the surrounding rural areas.
The rest of the valley has a couple of other companies that hold the contracts.
When I was growing up in suburban KC, we had our choice of 2 different companies. All private and somewhat haphazard.
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You rock, Edith! Remember when husband was stationed in another state, I went to the bank where we had a savings account. I filled out papers to close the account. The banker looked at the withdrawal slip and politely said that that amount was a nice little fund, and asked if I was going to use it wisely. I told him that I was taking it down the street where a competing bank was offering 2 percentage points more interest. He smiled and said something to the effect of “Good girl!” and cut me the check.
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Was this reply meant for me or someone else? My name isn’t Edith and I can’t find/recall posting a comment that would “fit” with what you wrote. Thank you in advance.
Edith Bunker!
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Yes, I suddenly remembered that the reply must have been to a comment/post I posted waaayyyy back when regarding this scene from “All In The Family”
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+1 My knees are sht, too, so if I kneel down, it can be a project to re-elevate.
I go shopping with a fellah affectionately known as Crazy Frank, who has no arms or legs, kind of just stubs. He’s wheelchair bound, so I always try to catch him to get anything he can’t reach. But, like me, he’s a bargain hunter, so we’re bound to meet if we’re at the stare at the same time.
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Wow, we just have a chute that says RUBBISH. BOOMI you can here it hit the bottom.
