How often do your have your trash picked up?

[ktgrok]

Poll to follow....

[Lucy the Valiant]

Never. We have to drive it to the dump ourselves.

[Myeightkiddies]

Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday - I indicated three on the poll.

 

Recycle and large yard brush/items are picked up on Friday, so I suppose it technically could be four.

[Socalimom]

Garbage is picked up every Monday. Recycle and green waste are every other week.

[Unicorn.]

Until last spring it was twice a week. Now it's once a week, and it isn't enough. :(

[elise1mds]

Once a week. If we want it taken more often, we have to either pay a second company or drive it ourselves. As it is, we have to find and pay for trash pick-up since we're outside city limits. I have to sort and haul recyclables to the drop boxes myself.

[Joker]

We have trash p/u once a week and recycle p/u once a week. We usually have one large garbage can out every week and two large recycling bins out every other week.

[usetoschool]

Trash pick up (which is required, and we have to pay for - you are not allowed to not have trash service) and recycled pick-up once a week on Monday. We have a large wheelie bin and can buy whatever level of service we want. We have the max and can put out as many as 5 or so additional trash cans.

[Guest submarines]

Every week, but alternating between compost and regular trash.

[sgilli3]

Garbage is picked up every Monday. Recycle and green waste are every other week.

 

Ditto for us too

Normal rubbish ( 120L bin) is collected each Monday.

Also on the same day either the recycling or green waste is collected ( 240L bins)

Edited December 7, 2011 by sgilli3

[QuirkyKidAcademy]

In each of the last three cities (different states) I've lived in, we had trash pick up twice a week. Two of those had recycling - one every week; the other twice a month. Our current city doesn't have recycling service.

[Tap]

Yard debris, garbage, recycling are all picked up by different trucks on the same day, once weekly.

[KungFuPanda]

Trash, recycling, and yard debris are picked up weekly. The county provides the service. We have the biggest recycling bins you've ever seen. 65 gallons! It's this 'model' but a different color/city.

 

 

Edited December 7, 2011 by KungFuPanda

[Rosie_0801]

Normal rubbish ( 120L bin) is collected each Monday.

Also on the same day either the recycling or green waste is collected ( 240L bins)

 

Same, but ours is picked up on Tuesdays. We have a hard rubbish collection once per year too.

 

Rosie

[Heather in Neverland]

Well, they pick it up several times a week but you never know when they are coming! They just show up on random days.

[4kidlets4me]

I voted other we have ours picked up once every two weeks. That includes our recycling too.

[Guest]

Twice a week, with recycling once a week.

[freerange]

Normal waste fortnightly, recycling fortnightly on the alternate weeks -bins for paper & card, compost and plastic bottles & tins.

[LucyStoner]

Garbage once a week. Recycling and composting e/o week. We have a huge recycle bin but only a 12 gallon micro garbage can.

[Amira]

I think a truck comes around every few months, but that doesn't matter because nearly everything that goes into the trash cans gets recycled or burned. In the last town we lived in the truck would come when we called because our can was full; for neighbors who didn't have cans, the truck would come every week or two and you paid for it depending on how much stuff you had to throw away.

[kiwi mum]

I voted 4+. Ours is collected every night. There are big bins out on the street and you just dump your bag in there. It is between 100 and 120F here for over half the year so you can't leave stuff sitting around. There was once on a public holiday where they missed a collection and boy did it stink out there.

[lailasmum]

On monday we get two pick ups. One is recycling & food waste which is every week and the other alternates between non recyclables one week and garden waste and thick card the other week.

Edited December 7, 2011 by lailasmum

[nd293]

Trash once a week. Recycling every second week. Bulk household waste once a year. Garden waste once a year.

[LaxMom]

Once a week, and we have to drive our recycling to the transfer station.

 

We rarely have a full outdoor can, though. Usually, we have one bag and I might grab the partial bag from the kitchen if it's more than half full.

 

Bulk and yard waste are done Thursday/Friday, but you have to call for it and pay for bulk items (not yard waste).

[Pamela H in Texas]

Normal trash is once per week.

Recycling is every other week.

I soooooo need those switched.

Bulk is the first wednesday of the month.

[Plucky]

Every other week.

[lynn]

I put twice a week but that has changed. It is once a week now but we have a second garbage can.

 

We also have a big item hauling day once a month where you can put out just about anything and I mean anything from toilets to tree limbs. or you can bring it to the place yourself at no cost.

 

There is also a chemical drop off one Saturday a month at a recycle location.

[nono]

Other.

 

At the curb: In season (May-Sept), it's 2x/week, with recycling 1x/week. Off-season, it's 1x/week for everything.* Oh and organic matter: 1x/week, spring and fall. Bulk pick up is free certain months, and can be arranged for low fees any other time. Technically, there's a limit, but there's no enforced limit. Our neighbors put out 22 bags of trash once. Guys picked it all up.

 

Drop off: Year round Sunday afternoon drop-off for trash. Daily drop-off for recyclables.

 

 

*When my husband got distracted and forgot to put out the trash for the 1x/week pick-up this week, and I drove in from some early morning holiday shopping behind the trash truck, the guy on the back made a circle signal with his hand and the truck continued. I pulled out our trash, and in a few minutes, the truck had circled around and picked up our trash, even though they were done with my street. I love our trash men. :001_wub:

Edited December 7, 2011 by nono
ETA: City employees, part of our taxes.

[pooh bear]

Our county does not have trash or recycle pick up. You have to take it to the dump yourself.

[cathmom]

once a week - we pay for it since we live rurally

[Tigger]

Trash isn't included in our taxes, so we'd have to pay for private pick up.....we'd also have to throw it in the trunk to get it to the top of our driveway anyway and DH pays for a dumpster at his business, so he just throws it in the trunk and doesn't stop at the end of the driveway - drops it in the dumpster at work. We don't have recycling here - if we have recycling that we want to recycle, we need to take it to a dump ourselves, about 20-miles away.

[athena1277]

Other? We have to take ours to a big trash compactor. I have no idea how often the thing gets emptied, but I can put trash in whenever I need to.

[Annie G]

Our trash pickup is automatically added to our water bill- we have no choice and no options. Once a week pickup for trash and recyclables. Trash is one bag, extra bags can be put out with a sticker that costs 50 cents. Recycling is unlimited.

 

We can't burn anything outside, and no longer have a dump or other place to take things. But once a year we can opt in to a large trash pickup- for $75 they'll take five things. Five boxes of stuff, five bags, or five pieces of furniture.

[Researcher]

Once a week. It includes trash, recycling, and yard waste - all on the same day.

[2squared]

We live in the country, and we have a 1/2 yard blue dumpster. We can when it is filled which is about every 1 - 1.5 months.

 

I take in recycling about once/week.

 

We have a burn pit which we use for burning wood. The property has a ton of old wood and downed trees.

[Dustybug]

Never. We don't HAVE to take it off ourselves, but we opt to do it that way to save a little money.

[Jenny in Florida]

Regular trash is picked up in our area on Mondays and Thursdays. Recycling is also on Thursdays.

 

Although I could use more frequent recycling pick-up (because we always fill our plastic and aluminum bin), we don't usually have enough regular trash to justify putting out the cart twice a week. In fact, most of the time we could probably go two weeks between pick-ups.

[Mommee & Baba]

Friday's. Unless we have a holiday and they switch it to Wednesday for that week.

[BamaTanya]

Household garbage is once a week. Yard trash and paper recycling are every other week, and they alternate for our neighborhood. We are inside city limits.

[happyhomemaker25]

I messed up. I said once a week because recycling comes once a week and trash comes once a week. Recycling on Monday and trash on Thursday. I should have read some of the responses first. :001_huh:

[DawnM]

We moved into this house 6.5 years ago.

 

When we moved in we had trash pick up twice per week for $20/mo.

 

FF to today.....we get trash pick up once per week for $24/mo

 

ARGH!

[elegantlion]

Once a week, trash and recycling on the same day.

 

I've only once lived in a place where trash pick up was more than once a week. That was a small municipality where the great majority of the people were elderly. It was also in the 80s, so that's probably changed.

[Parrothead]

We could have trash pick up once a week if we wanted to pay for it. Other wise we have to take it to the dump ourselves.

 

We did have the service for the first six months we were here but let it go.

[Daisy]

Trash is on Mondays (Ours is only ever half way full. I wish we could pay for a smaller can).

Green waste is on Thursdays

 

You can pay to have them pick up your recycling but we don't. They charge an outrageous yearly sum. It is just as easy for us to take our recycling 2 blocks away to the local community college. They recycle more items and make money by selling it to the recycling company.

[ereks mom]

Once a week here, on Mondays. We only recently began having trash pick-up services; we are in a rural area, and until last year, we had to haul off our own trash.

[beaners]

Our garbage pickup was this morning. We have garbage once a week and recyclables every other week. It's $37 for 3 months of service. Our township requires everyone to pay for garbage pickup, which I hate. I think it's because a lot of people here just dump it on their property. We would take it in ourselves if there was a dump open to the public within a reasonable drive.

 

We usually have a single regular garbage can for trash, and two large ones for recyclables. We can also put out one or two large items every week, but scrappers will grab almost anything you put out the night before.

[bcnlvr]

Our truck comes every Friday, but we only make one little bag of trash per week and have a ginormous garbage can. I would say we actually take the can to the curb every 3-4 weeks. Now the RECYCLE (which is weekly and the same company) is a different story. We have a huge vat overflowing every week.

[Ellie]

Once a week, but up until our city went with a commercial recycling company about a year ago, it was twice a week. This company will pick up any trash bags or boxes or just about anything else we leave on the curb; the trash--er, recycling--company we had in San Jose wouldn't. :glare:

[happypamama]

Trash is picked up once a week, and we can have up to five containers. We're also allowed a few bulky item pickups a year, with no additional fee, but we have to call in advance to schedule those. The trash company also sends out a truck to pick up the recycling every other week.

[mommyto4]

Recycling and Green Bin every week, trash every other week.