Garbage pick up costs?

[chocolatepuppy]

My garbage bill just keeps going up! I don't have that much garbage! My bill for three months is now $85.52! I will now be recycling. (Not that I didn't do some recycling already.) I have a neighbor and a family member who told me that any items I couldn't recycle, throw a bag in their can now and then.
Just curious, what do some of you pay?

[Grace]

We live in a rural area, so have to contract our own trash pick-up. We pay $39 every 3 months. We have one of those big containers, on wheels, that we take out every Friday. If we have the occasional over flow - an extra bag or two - no problem.

We re-cycle, or should I say I recycle. There are huge containers at the Township Hall, and I go every 10 - 14 days. We can do magazines, cardboard, newspaper and other paper stuff, cans and glass. It's a great release of frustration to go when I get p*ssed off and throw the glass bottles in the bin

[Twisterdog]

I pay $60 every three months, for two large cans. So, $10 per month, per can.

[Karen]

My property taxes cover the trash and recycling, we do not pay anything extra.

[pomtzu]

I'm in the same boat as Grace - in a rural area so have to contract with a private company. They provide the big wheeled container and pick up once a week, and will pick up extra items too, just so long as the guys can pick it up and throw it in to be compacted. We put an old sofa out this week that weighed a ton - and they took it. Surprised me!
Anyway, I pay quarterly and it is now up to $76.50 and they are the cheapest ones around. When I first went with this company about 7 or 8 years ago - it was $40 something each quarter. So it's $76.50 minus a senior discount of $4.50 and then add back in $4.21 diesel surcharge, and I end up paying $76.21 - for now anyway!!!

[jennielynn1970]

My property taxes cover the trash and recycling, we do not pay anything extra.

Same here where I'm living.

[chocolatepuppy]

It's a great release of frustration to go when I get p*ssed off and throw the glass bottles in the bin

That's funny Grace! However, everytime I go to the recycling place in town the bins are full!

I live just out of the city, where the garbage is included with the utility bill, about 1/2 what I pay. I could throw a rock into the city limits, darn it!

[lizbud]

My property taxes cover the trash and recycling, we do not pay anything extra.

It's the same here too.

[Freedom]

My property taxes cover the trash and recycling, we do not pay anything extra.

Same here.

We have "NO BINS NO TRASH" which ensures folks recycle. You have to put out your household trash and BOTH recycle bins: green for paper, blue for glass, metal, plastic. If you don't have the recycle bins out, they skip past your house and don't collect the trash. The first year we put this in place, our city saved an extra $35,000 for recyclables!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

It's $25/month for the service we use for trash/recycling pick up. It's for unlimited trash and recycling. We try to recycle everything we can and it's nice we don't have to sort it; they use a special recycling technique so it can all go in together.

[mrspunkysmom]

I live rural too and there are two or three independent trash services so I pay about $50 for 3 months. They even pick it up if you're late with the payment. The company charges extra for recycling because the county charges them to dump recycling. Yet I can take my recycling to the local center for free. They do not recycle everything, but most of what I have is what they want.

they do charge extra for certain items, unlike the city when I lived in the city.

[happylabs]

Rural area here, $17 a month. Wish it was included in the property taxes seeing as mine are well over $1400 a year.

[Cookiebaker]

we pay by the bag....$3 for a small bag and $4 for a large. We buy tickets in $20 increments, and it takes about 1.5-2 mos. to go through 3 of them. Recycling is free so we recycle every single thing that we possibly can. There is also a 'free bin' to put reuseable household items. It adds up fast though!

[krazyaboutkatz]

I live in a condo complex so we have the huge trash bins. We also have several recycle trash cans too. It's included in the property taxes I think or maybe the homeowners dues.

[Louie and me]

My property taxes cover trash pickup. The town is very "into" recycling so there is a pick up every week for green bins (compostables) and blue bins (recycling - paper, plastic jars and containers, glass, aluminum foil, etc) and up to three large garbage bags of general trash are picked up every two weeks. We divert up to 75% of our trash from landfills so I think that's great.