• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    2·
    10 months ago

    This is basically how recycling works, except it goes to Indonesia and is put into massive piles that occasionally set on fire.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Wild Bill@midwest.social
        3·
        10 months ago

        In the USA, you usually pay for garbage collection services which are private companies that provide you trash and recycling bins

        what the hell

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          This varies heavily by location. I’m not sure “usually” comes into it. In and around cities it’s not uncommon for the city government to handle trash collection. Farther out into the 'burbs or in rural locations you might have to hire a private trash company.