Objectivism and libertarianism tend to go hand in hand, or at least someone who identifies as the former is almost always also the latter.
You’re still a dick. Having trash cans on the curb is not the same as leaving trash around.
I’ve lived one place that had twice weekly pickup, but that was only during summer. They’d been told that fly eggs hatch in three days in summer heat and had adjusted the schedule. Everywhere else, it’s been once a week.
However this shakes out, snailboy, you’re not doing anything outrageous by putting it out the night before. It may be against the code, but it’s not outrageous. Shoot, our trash guys are out a 5 a.m. picking up trash. I don’t want to get up that early to set cans out.
My town just went to twice a week as a cost saving measure.
Yes, really, as a cost saving measure. Apparently, the extra cost of doing longer trash runs (covering the same ground twice a week instead of once) is offset by no longer having to do off shift runs to make up for holidays.
You don’t have bears, do you? My mom has to put hers out the morning of trash pickup, but only because bears will rifle through people’s garbage if it’s left out. They also can’t have bird feeders for the same reason. Of course, bears’d do that whether the garbage was in the front or back of your house, so I hope it isn’t bears in your case.
And speaking of garbage luxury: Where I grew up, the garbage men would come around to the back of the house and get the garbage. It was a very fancy, very small town. However, I forgot this fact one early morning, and the garbage man and I scared the crap out of each other.
That reminds me – when is the Rover pickup?
I drag my big plastic wheeled trash bin to the curb the last thing the night before trash day. If I got a letter like the one in the OP, I would throw it in the bin before wheeling it to the curb the night before trash day.
IOW, I’d ignore it.
Ignore the roving troll.
When I moved into my neighborhood in 2002 it was kept up farily well by it’s residents. But during the whole foreclosure mess and owners renting out their homes the neighborhood went downhill real fast. Looked like shit.
Fences falling apart, broken windows, unmowed lawns, piles of scrap junk on driveways, etc. The city did a sweep handing out warnings and threatening with fines. Seemed to do the trick. My neighbor got forced to either paint his house or get siding. I got ordered to remove some lumber off my drive. Everyones garbage bins were not allowed to be visable from the street (keep them behind your house or in your garage).
It worked pretty well and our neighborhood doesn’t look like such a dump anymore.
When bears rifle through garbage, they’re only exercising their 2nd amendment rights!
Lot of trash lovers here on the SDMB apparently.
Couldn’t be – they don’t love you.
That is certainly silly - round here, pretty well everyone puts out their trash the night before, except for the Green bins (which are absurdly easy for racoons to open).
Whadaya know, Longview’s municipal code is online. Here, apparently, is the relevant section:
Emphasis added. Looks pretty clear to me. And really, if you’re required to set out bags only (no cans, according to section (a) above), you’d want to do it as close to pickup time as possible, or else you attract all manner of undesirable creatures.
Can you put the bags in a garbage can, and set that out the night before?
Laws can be clear and stupid at the same time. Our town allows garbage cans, but clearly indicates what sizes are acceptable. If the law clearly stated “no cans larger than 5 gallons” it would be clear and very very stupid.
Of course, there is also this which muddies the waters.
You people oughtta count your blessings! We don’t even HAVE trash pickup in my town. We have to haul it all to the dump ourselves, and it’s uphill both ways.*
- for part of the drive
If only we’d all just work harder, then we, too, could live where we never have to see unsightly trash cans…
Well, thats just retarded.
How many rats are going to attack the garbage BEFORE 6PM (ie daylight) and how many rats are going to attack the garbage sometime after 6PM (ie at night).
No, I think it’s pretty clear. Garbage can be put out in bins between midnight and 7:30 am, and in bags between 5 am and 7:30 am.
Of course, those limited hours could be very difficult for people on shift work: if you had a permanent midnight to 8 am shift, you would never be able to (legally) put your garbage out.
No, but technically it IS …you see, theres this trash and its in a bag or a can and that can or bag is around…and well, getting all lawyerly on you…you get the pic 