Maybe they got to the dump and there was a big sign and chain across the dump saying “Closed on Thanksgiving” and they had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before and with tears in their eyes they drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage. They didn’t find one. ‘Til they came to a side road and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff was another pile of garbage. And they decided that one big pile is better than two little piles and rather than bring that one up they decided to throw theirs down.
🎶Dun dun dun🎶
And you do what everyone else does, drop it off at the gate and leave cash.
Kid, we found your name on an envelope under a half a ton of garbage.
Increases the cost to the community many times, but it’s free for one person
They didn’t sort in any way and there was extra cost, so they decided to dump it on the road?
I don’t think it would’ve cost anything. They charge only for very few specific things.
Here, if you exclude hazardous materials, unsorted generic waste is most expensive, burnable materials, house appliances and electronics are free.
Some clueless assholes are surprised by this, leave and dump their cargo soon after the exit gate, just to say fuck you.
As the squeeze continues, the trash dumps will increase. It costs money to dump trash appropriately. Out of all the utilities, trash pickup will likely be sacrificed first. This isn’t an endorsement.
Meh. It’s got far better in my lifetime. (My anecdotes span 3 states and 40 years.) Used to be the residential trash guys were picky bastards, never knew what refuse they would refuse. Now they pop the lid, no car batteries, sulfuric acid or tires? Good to go.
Used to be everything that didn’t fit in the can had to be burned or hauled. My guys will pick up about anything that fits in a 4’x 8’ space if you give a call. And they’ll do it 4 times a month. No charge.
Not so environmentally great, but we have 2 trash haulers in competition. Company A piss you off? Company B will take over the next day.
Everything that costs money (evermore, at that) will see people decline to pay in favour of saving the cost. This shouldn’t cost the public money to do, it should be taken care of by the county.
I think it’s true that not every landfill charges
Edit: op said they only charge for specific items at that location so it probably would’ve been free
We use a regional landfill and they charge your hometown. It’s only for hazardous waste so the town get pissed if you waste their money with insufficient items or something that can go in trash or recycling
But I still have old style fluorescent tubes in my basement. What do I do as they burn out and are replaced by LED? Because of mercury, trash won’t take them. However I’ll never have enough to make up for the $50 my town is charged. Plus the last thing I want to do is accumulate old tubes that will eventually get broken and contaminate my house
you should coordinate with your neighbors to consolidate the neighborhood output, which then can justify the town charge.
I’ve thought of that, and there already are versions of that - I’m pretty sure Scouts organizes one. However the result is me accumulating dead fluorescent tubes, oil based paint and insecticide. Then I forget about it and it may be years of accumulated hazards. I need to change that result
“I dumped the trash outside the environment.” “Into another environment?” “No, I dumped it beyond the environment. It’s not in the environment.”
Littering really pisses me off. I’ve seen kids throw trash on the ground when a trash can was 5 ft away. Infuriating.
You would fucking DIE if I took you back to 70s America. I truly love how offended people get by littering, I really do!
Trash was piled on the side of every road, especially highways. People just chunked their McDonald’s bag when they were done, no big deal.
I’ve hauled a couple hundred pounds of crap out the woods surrounding our hood. About gave me a stroke on the larger items. But I keep at it, and it seems to prevent the broken window effect. Hadn’t been out in 3-weeks, figured it would be awful. Nah. Only got a single grocery bag out, and half was my own beer cans! (I did drag an electric scooter out. Fuck me. Try that over 1/2 mile of deep sand.)
I worked on regular cleanups of a wetlands near my old apt and the bike path that ran by. We’d pull literally tons of crap out of there but over time it got less and less.
I remember the 70s-80s and the trash but that doesn’t excuse littering even less now.
So, are you finding that it stays cleaner? I don’t want it to be my imagination, but I seem to be making an impact. And the rare people who see my crawl out of those woods always see me with trash bags.
It’s private property, but I think of my self as the unofficial park ranger. Hopefully if anyone bitches I can point to my work. Also, I don’t want to lose the privilege of wandering around out there, figure if we don’t fuck it up, and in fact improve it, no one will complain.
I can’t tell if you’re minimizing the problem because you think it used to be worse. If so, that’s pretty uncool, unlike the cleanups which you’re doing. Those are cool.
I don’t think it used to be worse, it was way worse. I just find it amusing when people get bent over seeing someone toss trash out the window when it was a daily sight in the day.
By all means, keep up the outrage! How do you think we got so much better? Shout out to the crying Indian ad. I cannot overstate how impactful that was. We only had 3 or 4 TV stations so it was up in everyone’s grill, whole country. Can’t get a message out like that today, too many outlets to cover. :(
Yeah see it’s not obvious if you’re being sarcastic or not…
I don’t think they’re being sarcastic, lol, but I know what you mean.
You are legally allowed to beat them with the trash.
You are legally
allowedobligated to beat them with the trash.FTFY
Merci.
Wouldn’t law enforcement be able to find a couple of receipts or something that could indicate who it was that threw all this away? It’d be so satisfying to issue a massive fine to the assholes who did this.
If. Old bottles, pizza boxes, etc aren’t going to identify you.
“Someone stole my trash”
^ Right here. Company I worked at had trash dropped in the back of one our service vehicles (as well as some straight up vandalism), had lots of personally identifying info and the culprit had already made themselves well known to our staff a couple weeks prior. Guy told the police the trash was stolen and nothing further ever happened with it.
That would involve actual police work. They don’t even process rape kits brought to them.
If you litter, fuck yourself.
On se perkele
In truth at least here Most of that type of dumping comes from the landfill being closed. Lazy people in general don’t know the schedule of a facility and as a result there are game cameras on most dumping spots near the local landfill. Every now and then they catch someone in the act and make a big production number in the prosecution. With some getting community service picking up trash on the side of the road.
Yea but dumping it there is free.
What you do when no one is looking is your true character.
Probably didn’t want to pay / put effort into sorting it. Sad.
