He was responding to another poster in this thread, not you.
There is no garbage pick up where I live so I go to the transfer station. Generally twice a month. It works great fine for me and my Wife.
Note though, a transfer station is way different than a dump. Our dump does use scales, but they also have a minimum fee. I think it’s $50. That’s fine if you have a truck load. Not so much if it’s just 4 or 5 bags. You had better check on that.
I also agree about the flat tire thing. That’s a concern when ever I go. In the twenty or so times I’ve been to the dump/landfill, I’ve gotten one flat. IMHO, that’s enough to dissuade me.
The dump option:
$10 per trip
Have to accumulate your garbage until your next trip
Time and money spent going to/from the dump
Increased risk of tire damage
Waste pick-up option:
$20 per month weekly pick-up
Put it all at the curb each week
No question, I’d pay for the pick up. The $10 savings a month (assuming you go to the dump once a month) doesn’t even come close to paying for my time and costs of going to the dump as well at the risk of tire damage.
Talk to your nearest neighbor - agree to split the monthly cost with them and you can drop your trash on their curb with their trash.
Cost $10 month.
I’ve got a big dumpster at work that gets emptied once a week. I only fill it maybe half way each week. So, I cancelled home garbage pick up and just bring it to work. It’s really nice, since I can bring garbage any day, and can bring things like construction refuse, etc.
Meh, missed the edit. The whole reason for the dumpster talk, was that I have an employee who gives me $5 a month (actually, $50 a year) to also use my dumpster. She only generates a small bag every other week, and her local collection was $25 a month.
I’m fairly confident that the [del]mobsters[/del] legitimate businessmen who are picking up this trash will frown upon these shenanigans.
Wow, you must generate a lot of rubbish. I really don’t think my 3 bed house needs a daily collection, do you?
Ok, I did not see that coming!
The dump is not close to me and frankly the $20 is worth the convenience to get rid of all of my smelly garbage, AND to get rid of larger things when I need to. If it’s worth it to you to go to the dump, why not? My friend does.
Generally, a whole apartment building generates more trash than a single three-bedroom house.
Where I’m at, the place where people can legally take their stuff is two cities away and the trip will easily consume an hour or more. Usually more. The place is called a Recycling Center & Transfer Station and “Convenience” is nowhere near as they close at 3:00 on weekdays and 12:30 on Saturdays.
Going there on a weekday is impossible, and on Saturdays, the place is a madhouse with everyone trying to dump their stuff in that four-hour window of opportunity. You can take regular garbage there, but they’re more about tree limbs, appliances and old couches.
It’s well worth the $42.23 per month to avoid all of that. And, if I do have an old couch to get rid of, the service includes two oversize pickups per year.
The last place we lived in FL, I think it ran about $10-12 per month and they took trash and recycling. The dump was not convenient and we were 3 residents plus 2 dogs, so we generated a good bit of refuse. I had no problem paying it.
However, I had a problem with the neighbor who hauled her trash to our driveway after we’d left in the morning. Didn’t ask us - and we wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t come home sick one trash day. My husband went over and told her to knock it off. I found it interesting that she could afford her cigarettes, but not trash pickup… but that’s another story.
As with pretty much everything in the US, it varies.
Someone mentioned it being ‘free’ in their city but did not specify if it was done by a private company or the city and another one mentioned it is part of their ‘city bill’ but did not specify if the trash collector was private or public.
In my case, the charge is part of the monthly ‘city bill’ along with water, sewer and electricity and the pickup is done by a private company from the nearest larger city. Recycling is free if you use your own container or $2 per month if you use one of their containers. We have single-stream recycling so all recycling is put in the same container.
Our trash is picked up weekly on Thursday and the recycling on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. I can’t remember what the monthly charge is.
I live in a city, and also in a county. The county I live in picks up the trash weekly. The people across the street from me, though, while they have the same city as their address, live in a different county, which does not have have trash collection and they have to make their own arrangements. So in my neighborhood every day is trash day (except Monday for some reason).
I had the same “hmmmm,” moment about 7 years ago. I live rural, and the trash company had just changed its policy to not accept glass for recycling. A lot of my recycling is glass.
They charged about $19/month for curbside service, and since I had to move my trash to the “curb” every week, a good bit of driving was already involved. Since my recycling/transfer station is only about 3 1/2 miles away, it made more sense to just haul it myself. The recycling/transfer station only charges $12/load.
I do recycle everything I can. I compost and keep animals that pick up the slack for food scraps and such. And I do have a pickup truck – can’t hardly live on acreage and not have one. As it turns out, I only go to the recycling/transfer station about once every 6 months. Almost everything is recyclable except for 2 regular-sized trash cans-full.
It’s kind of astonishing how little actual garbage you will produce if you put a little effort into it. And obviously the savings are nice, too! 
No shit. Just amused by his attempt at one-upmanship.
I live in a city; our trash fees are lumped in with our water and sewer from the city.
this would be ideal: composting and recycling and not ending up with much actual garbage to fill up a landfill.
thank you to everyone for suggestions and some Trash Talk. 
I think it was more a joke about being awakened almost everyday by trash collectors.
I just checked my last ‘city bill’ and garbage collection is $13.32 per month.