"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> "Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
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>> I can't imagine that it isn't more trouble than it's worth to lock up
>> the recycling bins, esp. here in SoCal. All the recycling bins I've
>> seen at the curb aren't segregated by type (paper, cans, glass, etc.),
>> but just put into one big heap. How does that work, anyway? Do the
>> bins actually get sorted? How? Always wondered about that...
>
> Our town went to that about a year ago. The first sort is with magnets to
> get the steel out, then a series of light versus heavy sorting and some h
> and picking.
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>

Our town like most in NY has a town dump, it's fenced, attended, and
operates by regular business hours... and there is a minimal charge to dump
household trash and different fees to dump appliances, building materials,
etc. I'm not familar with the fees as I pay for private sanitation pick up
but they must be less than I pay as lots of people use the town dump
regularly... my tenant does. My private sanitation pick up is once a week,
this morning in fact, so I have to remember to put it out to the road on
Monday night, with tax costs me $28/month... I feel it's worth the $7/wk not
having to load up my car with smelly garbage and drive to the dump and still
have to pay like $3, and most of my trash by weight is used cat litter.
Most people hereabouts bury it on their property but I'd rather not pollute
my land... they bury their non burnable trash too... hillybillys... they
bury everything, even if a house burns down they doze a big hole and bury it
all, or when they do a major alteration like a new roof or new toilet, they
bury the old stuff. We don't have a lot of recyclables to segregate
because of the deposit containers law. My private trash collection doesn't
require me to separate anything, only that the trash is in a tied plastic
trash bag inside a covered trash can. Also a lot of people here use burn
barrels (55 gallon drums), so their only trash is glass, metal, and plastics
which they bring to the dump when they accumulate enough, if they don't bury
it. Actually the burn barrels are now illegal except when there is snow on
the ground but people still use them all year... my neighbor has one of
those "Chiminia" things on his patio, he sits out there drinking scotch
while he burns trash... he doesn't need the trash burning ambiance as an
excuse, he drinks scotch every day.