Curiosity here - not trying to settle an argument, or persuade someone that they’re wrong.
Scenario is a multiple person household (two or more people) with division of household tasks. Someone is the Garbabe/Trash Takeout Person - this person is charged with the duty of taking the trash out (to the curb, or to the dumpster, or whatever).
In your opinion, does this person’s duties also include actually taking the full bags out of the indoors cans, and replacing the liners? The alternative would be for someone else to remove the full bags, tie them, replace the liners, and place the full bags in some pre-ordained spot for taking out.
If you prefer doing it one way or the other, what (in your HO) are the advantages of doing it your way?
Definitely vertical integration; the entire procedure should be carried out by one person.
Reason:
There could be a delay between removal of the bag from the can and from the house. This invariable results in leakage on the floor. With the one person model, the trash is removed from the can and immediately from the house, with reduced opportunity for leakage.
Now, replacing the liner: according to the rational above, a second person should be on hand to replace the bag, again to get the potentially leaky trash immediately out of the house. However, in practice, that person will not know or remember that the bag has been removed, and will dump a combination of coffee ground, banana peels, and lobster shells into the un-lined can. Very bad.
So, a single person should conduct the entire procedure, taking care to have a replacement bag on hand, before removing the full one.
Another yes. Our trash person is responsible for maintaining household trash receptacles that may be used. That means periodically take the trash out to the garage where we keep our cans. Then placing those cans at the curb on the appropriate eve (or failing that, beating the trash truck in the morn). The wise garbage collector will also attempt to fill up nearly full bags prior to trash day so as to minimize the in-house trash at the time of collection. This may mean gathering up garbage that others have failed to dispose of properly and also comes with the perk of free reign to bitch at those non-disposers for being lazy.
I don’t see that it makes a difference, but since this is a poll and I love polls: I do the indoor collection/emptying and my husband does the rest.
It’s what works for us. If I left my part up to him, the indoor bins would overflow. If he left his part up to me, the bags would sit in the garage for weeks. They get heavy and it’s a long way to the curb.
We use those flex bags and we’ve never had a leak.
The person whose job is “the garbage” does everything from A - Z with the garbage. At the beginning, we have garbage in our house, and at the end, all the garbage is outside and the inside is prepared and waiting for the unavoidable creation of new garbage.
In our house, that person is Mr. Del.
However, if I am around while he takes out the garbage, and I’m not really doing anything in particular, I will go ahead and replace the liners, since I’m standing right there. I’ve noticed this is one of those little things that he appreciates a lot – coming back in from the curb, and having the chore be finished.
Typically I take care of taking out the garbage, though depending on when my husband comes home, he might actually be the one to put it on the side of the road. I usually come home quite a bit earlier than he does, so I’ll empty the cans, replace the bags, tie everything up and either take it outside or leave it by the front door, so that when he gets here he just opens the door, grabs the bag and puts it out, thereby avoiding my having to put on shoes/a coat/ whatever.
We have a sort-of two-family household. Each person is responsible for emptying their own trash cans and relining, and consolidating small bags into larger ones. Since we never put liquids into the trash, there is little opportunity for leakage, and the big bag from the kitchen will sit inside the kitchen door until I (or my son) bring down our trash from our area of the house and take all the bags (and the recycling) to the curb.
We don’t have a designated trasher, but it’s understood that whoever is doing it does the whole process, just like “washing the dishes” includes putting food away and wiping down surfaces.
It’s not an assigned job, but one that gets done as needed. 90% of the time the person taking the trash out will replace the bag/liner. Sometimes there will be specific instances where it might be convenient for the person taking the trash out, to not have to return to replace the bag/liner. But that’s a rare situation, and always covered by an immediate verbal agreement - not an expectation.
Same here. Neither of us mind taking out the trash (the can is right outside the garage door, so you don’t really have to go outside) and whoever does it replaces the liner upon return. The can gets emptied when it gets full.
Wife is official bathroom, guestroom, kidroom, study, office, laundry room trashcan monitor. If one of these gets filled, it gets emptied into the main kitchen garbage by wife. If not filled, it gets emptied into the main kitchen garbage on Sunday and Wednesday nights by wife.
Hubby in charge of taking kitchen trash to outside cans when full, or at the very least, nightly. Hubby in charge of taking cans to curb on Mon. and Thurs. If something is particularly estinky, it is placed outside on porch and Hubby has to put it in outside can ASAP.
I suppose it depends a little on how often you empty your trash. I’d say if your garbage is collected on Friday but your garbage bin is full on Wednesday, it’s not necessarily the task of the garbage carrier to empty the bin and replace the bag – it’s pretty much the task of whoever happens to have put the thing in it that made it ‘full’.
From the other side, though, the task of taking the garbage out on Friday should include going around the house and emptying out all the half-full bins to ensure that the house is relatively garbage free once it’s been taken out.
My roommate is the one who takes out the kitchen trash (I take care of my own from my wastebaskets in my room and bathroom) and he usually does the whole thing; he’ll take out the bag and unless it’s leaking or something he’ll put in a new one before he takes the full one down.
He does it because the bin outside is high enough (it’s a condo building, so it’s a biiig bin) and I’m short enough that it’s hard for me to open the lid, and if there’s more than a little bit of snow on it I can’t pick up the lid because of the weight and the angle.
