‘Other’. I leave it on the kerb on the footpath (i.e. public land) and then it’s removed by the council garbage collectors.
Ours is about evenly split between:
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[li]Biweekly trash pickup of 1 plastic rolly bin (whatever they’re called)[/li][li]Put in recycling bins which we quarterly or so take to the recycling center[/li][li]Compost[/li][li]Burn[/li][/ul]
The composting is the most fulfilling one.
I put it in trash cans in the barn, the guy I share the building with moves them out to the curb each week. Works out to an unequal labor set up but he’s brushed off my concerns. He was doing it with his own trash before I moved in and I don’t add enough to change his routine over.
I also have a dumpster at my shop that gets used as needed for my personal junk or as when convenient.
I leave it in the garbage can in front of the building, and the city empties it every morning (except Saturdays). It’s not my property because it belongs to the entire building; besides, it’s a rental apartment, so technically speaking I don’t have any property.
Every week we have both trash and recycling pickup.
For recycling I put out 2 blue boxes with paper/plastic/glass/cans and one greenbox with compostable material.
We’re allowed 2 bags of garbage each week but our house of 3 usually has about half of one. Depending on it’s contents I often skip weeks for garbage pickup. This week will be two bags because the garbage bag I keep in the basement accumulating used furnace filters is finally full.
Where’s the “Sell it to China and then buy it back as an eye product” option?
Awesome typo! AWESOME!!
I just put my one purchased-by-me plastic trash can outside with my one rented-from-someone recycle bin and it will be picked up in the morning.
Trash collection company abandoned this area last year. Now I burn my paper trash and have to take my non-paper trash to the disposal site, about 9 miles away. It amounts to two tall kitchen can bags once a week that I have to haul. I guess it’s cheaper than the $18 a month I used to pay for weekly pickup. The thing that really ticks me off is that the stupid company never came back for their big old 55 gallon wheeled dumpster and it’s cluttering up my yard!!
It gets left at the end of the driveway, and the garbage company (there’s a choice between several) picks it up.
I take my tarp out of the trunk, and put it on the backseat. Then I put the garbage bags, special pastel colored bags that are the only ones allowed, on it. And the bag of washed, uncapped, sorted by #1 and #2 bottles. And the crate of non-corrugated cardboard. Occasionally also a crate of corrugated cardboard, a bin of junk mail, a bag of newspapers or a bag of catalogues. Then I drive them to the transfer station. Trash bags get flung into the big compactor, then recycling gets driven to its final home a few hundred feet away, where you bring the correct material to the right window, room, or compactor.
It beats paying $20 more a month to have someone else take the stuff to its final destination.
My “other” is what’s most common in Spain: I take it down to the appropriate large containers on the street. They are separated by trash type.
In tenements (thank you, British English) with concierge service, usually one of the duties of the concierge is to pick up everybody’s trash and take it down. Some places have a small “trash room” where the neighbors leave their bags inside a “trash cart” (Mom’s house used to work like that, there’s no concierge now); in others, the neighbors leave their trash outside during a very limited hour range (19:30-20:00 for the place where I’ve been staying these past weeks).
Recycling goes in the communal recycling bins. There are also communal ordinary bins, but my hosing association made the bizarre decision to lock them all away, so I can’t use them. I put my non-recyclable rubbish in a communal bin on a neighbouring estate.
I’m not supposed to do this, but the alternative would be a 45-mile trip to the dump (and I don’t drive), and paying quite a lot to use said dump even though waste collection is supposed to be paid for by my council tax. Other residents simply dump their rubbish in the open by the door to the inaccessible bins.
We’ve got two large bins, one for garbage and one for recycling. Once a week, great big green garbage trucks take the garbage away (twice a month for recycling). It’s part of my city’s utilities, so I pay the fee in my utility bill. (Other suburbs have to contract, apparently, so those residents have to arrange their own by calling the local trash removal. I think it’s a bit like cable, though - a local monopoly - so it’s not difficult. But mine was all arranged for me just by moving there, which I think is keen.)
The city of Minneapolis burns the majority of the garbage to generate electricity. Which is also keen. (There are landfills in the area, though.) Makes big white clouds during winter that are rather fun to see.
My “other” is that garbage goes in a dumpster in the lane, and the city crew comes by once a week to pick it up.
Recycling goes in blue boxes in the garage, and every two weeks I put them out on our front lawn by the sidewalk for the private recycling company to pick up.
…and then it goes to the Little Dixie Landfill.