What's YOUR garbage cost?

[Featherland]

We pay about $35 every 3 months for once a week trash pickup and one a week recycling pickup. Garden and lawn waste would be more but we compost. I used to complain about ours when they raised it!

 

[patandchickens]

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In rural areas it is not uncommon for there to be no municipal trash pickup period, which sounds like what you've got -- you have to take the stuff to the dump yourself. Sometimes it is free, sometimes you get X number of bags' allowance per month, sometimes it is a small fee. There is always an enterprising soul who will take it to the dump for you and charge you enough to make it a profitable business for him. That's just the way it works <shrug>

The alternative is to take it to the dump yourself and pocket the difference. Yeah, it is inconvenient and if you don'thave a pickup truck it can stink your car up. That's what the local guy makes his money from, people who want to avoid that

Pat

 

[cthrash1]

Ours is around 36.00 every 3 months. Two cans and if we have a few extra bags they don't usualy chg.

 

[MoonbeamQueen]

We're paying $87.24 for a three month period, they pick-up once a week, and they provide the big trash can. We aren't allowed to burn trash here, only yard refuse from our own property. Our water is a separate bill.

My mom, in Georgia, is paying about $20/month for her trash and water combined. Again with weekly trash pick-up. Her mortgage and wage are significantly less though as well. I guess it's all relative?

 

[miss_jayne]

4 bucks a week and no extra for big pick ups...if we call and have something ginormous, they send an extra guy on the truck. and if they miss something, i call and they shoot back.

we have the best trash guys ever!

 

[chcknrs]

We don't have trash pickup here. We are too far out in the boonies. But, we take it to the dump (about 7 miles) and it's $1 a can, plus they take off $1 for every bag of recyclables. So we pay about $3 or less every month or so, plus gas.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

We pay 30 dollars a quarter. The pick up one large can a week with as many as three bags and a recycling bin.

I thought that was outrageous when we moved here because I used to get it in town as taxes.... But, ILs burn and I didn't want to do that see above post re: toxic smoke...

We compost and recycle like crazy people so we don't usually fill the can.....

 

[fosterchick]

I pay $90.00 every three months. That is for once a week pick up with recycleables. We have a dump in town, but they won't take trash like that. They only take big stuff. Ex. tires, furniture compost...ect.

 

[Psittizen Shikkin]

$85 quarterly which includes 3 cans picked up weekly. My rental is $95 quarterly though I don't know why it's more. We have the regular garbage; a recycle can and a yard waste can that we never use because we compost most of it and burn the rest.

 

[tomstephens]

We pay about $30/mo for once a week pickup. We can put just about anything out there and they pickup, as long as we do it in small amounts.