Yes, I’ve been doing it for years. It actually seems ridiculous to me that not bagging your garbage would lead to them not picking it up, but so does the idea of a private garbage corporation. The city picks mine up. They never complain and I never find my garbage in the streets. I’ve never seen them drop any recyclables either, and basically everyone in my neighborhood recycles at least to some degree.
My household also don’t throw much away. We compost nearly 100% of our food and pet wastes and most of our cardboard and paper, avoid single use plastics, and recycle. Usually our inside bin doesn’t even fill up week to week.
I also limit what goes in our trash and only put out a bag or two a week. And our city is in charge of refuse and recycling but they contract out with a waste management company - the city doesn’t have its own dump or recycling facilities (and this has been my experience in cities big and small across the country.
I watch the trash and pickup process a lot (because of a toddler) and what I’ve noticed is that bagged trash gets picked up out of bins and thrown into the truck while the recycling gets picked up by the “arm” and dumped; that’s where the spillage comes from.
Regardless of our differences in garbage strategy, surely we can at least agree that threatening to decapitate someone for using your garbage can is, at the very best, completely insane.
Yes, I’ve been doing it for years. It actually seems ridiculous to me that not bagging your garbage would lead to them not picking it up, but so does the idea of a private garbage corporation. The city picks mine up. They never complain and I never find my garbage in the streets. I’ve never seen them drop any recyclables either, and basically everyone in my neighborhood recycles at least to some degree.
My household also don’t throw much away. We compost nearly 100% of our food and pet wastes and most of our cardboard and paper, avoid single use plastics, and recycle. Usually our inside bin doesn’t even fill up week to week.
I also limit what goes in our trash and only put out a bag or two a week. And our city is in charge of refuse and recycling but they contract out with a waste management company - the city doesn’t have its own dump or recycling facilities (and this has been my experience in cities big and small across the country.
I watch the trash and pickup process a lot (because of a toddler) and what I’ve noticed is that bagged trash gets picked up out of bins and thrown into the truck while the recycling gets picked up by the “arm” and dumped; that’s where the spillage comes from.
Regardless of our differences in garbage strategy, surely we can at least agree that threatening to decapitate someone for using your garbage can is, at the very best, completely insane.
Oh, yeah, we are in agreement there.