What sends me is that he's still paying an extra $75, which means it's not about the garbage.
Once more people get onboard, the price is sure to fall.
Yes, because everyone knows how the more popular things get, the cheaper they become.
I guess it's about the convenience? Trash day only once a month does sound pretty tempting...
Isnt throwing garbage free?
(At least here in Greece it is.)
In the USA, you usually pay for garbage collection services which are private companies that provide you trash and recycling bins and they pick them up from your house on a regular schedule, usually once or twice a week. If you live in a rural area, really rural, you might need to handle your own garbage. In these cases you either haul it in your truck to a dump where you either pay a flat rate to dump, or pay by the pound (they weigh your car before and after), or some places allow you burn trash if you’re really in the middle of nowhere.
Sometimes payment for these services is included in rent, HOA fees, or sometimes you hire/pay seperately.
Sometimes payment for these services is included in rent, HOA fees, or sometimes you hire/pay seperately.
Or included in property tax, because (as a matter of public health) they really don't want anybody to be able to avoid paying it.
In my city, it's a flat fee per residence (as opposed to scaling with the millage rate), so it's broken out on a separate line-item. It's a little over $500/year.
Ohh ok ok. Yeah, very different from Greece. Probably because Greece isn't that much of a capitalistic country I think🤷. We just have some big trash cans (around 1m³ of volume) every like 50meters (±40meters) in residential areas and trucks pick up the garbage.
They are by the streets/in indetations of the pavement (I've seen in other european countries, that they have those trash cans inside an apartment complex instead and other stuff. We had hard time figuring out where to throw our trash in Hungary).
Though people doesnt care very much of what they dispose of and frequnetly you can see stuff like big carboards and abandoned furniture near those trash cans which are rarely collected (many times you have to call the appropriate service of the municipalty).
We also have those small bins (around 50liters) on the pavement scattered around in the cities where you can throw various small garbage.
If there's anything I've learned from the Sopranos, it's that the mob is running garbage collection.
Allow is a stretch, back in the rural part of the US I grew up in we burned our trash since there was no trash company that serviced within 50 miles of us. No one cares for the environmental or health impacts of it when there no other realistic option
In certain countries you’ll get fined for dumping garbage, which is why divorce is so expensive.
I've lived in a few places in Canada and I've never heard of paying for trash pickup, it's just a city service.
It's 25$/mo total for the green, blue, and black bins in Calgary
What about people that don't live in the cities?
Depends on where you live. Rural areas often don’t get free trash pickup.
re malaka you pay tax money for services of this kind, it is not free
Lol, indeed you pay through taxes, the other person who commented about paying their country for that reminded it to me.
Though I dont know how much money of the taxes go there.
You're still paying for it, just with taxes.
What an asshole
Is $125 a month "normal" for houses? I pay $8 but I live in an apartment
Ours is paid for by taxes and council fees
In IB, California, I'm paying $105 every three months for 1 trash and 1 recycling bin. With weekly pickup.
A quick Google tells me that in NYC trash companies are limited to $15.89 per hundred pounds.
Either OP has Oscar the Grouch levels of trash to dispose of, or the whole thing is made up.
My guess is that they’re rural. Lots of rural communities have such high trash fees that they’ll opt to just burn it instead. Because no trash company wants to drive 45 minutes outside of town just for one pickup, and the local municipality doesn’t cover them because they’re outside of the city limits.
Mine ìs $20.85/mo for the same service in Orlando
We pay zero, but what can I say, I'm living in a third world country. Trash is everywhere.
I pay $85 a quarter for a huge trash can and a huge recycling can (the kinds with wheels that’d hold at least a couple bodies). They pickup once a week.
Where we live is between $40-$50 every two months for trash and recycling for most services.
My trash, recycling, and water are all bundled and the trash/recycling part is like $25ish, so about the same as yours.
I live in a major city and pay $75 quarterly for trash and recycling bins that are picked up weekly semi-reliably. They get a lot of holidays for being an American company and anytime there’s even the hint of inclement weather they cancel pickup and I have a full bin of trash for another week lol and of course I can’t leave the bin out where it don’t smell up my garage because the HOA doesn’t allow the bins to be outside during daytime except pickup day and it must be placed back inside by the day after pickup because these people have nothing going on with their lives
We get billed about $275 for 2 months. Did a couple months of that when we first moved in and things were crazy, but now that we settled, I just take it to the disposal myself and spend about $100 for 2 months. Quite the savings.
I wish my mom actually followed though on sending my brussels sprouts to the starving kids via mail when I was a kid because it would have been hilarious.
This is basically how recycling works, except it goes to Indonesia and is put into massive piles that occasionally set on fire.
So that's where all trash on the roads of India come from
I knew a billion people couldn’t do that, there had to be someone else
Why don’t the receivers return to sender with compliments (of shit)?
Everyone is like " garbage collection is free here" no it's not, what do you think taxes are for
Thats like saying "free refills dont exist, you pay for them beforehand".
Well if you pay taxes all the time and are used to gaining nothing for it, it feels like the bonuses are free.
