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Originally Posted by SmartAleq
I found out that our local waste company actually DOES have an option for smaller sizes, if you use their cans, which I do now that the truck grabber ate my 32 gal Rubbermaid. You can get their 30 gallon container with an insert that makes it a 20 gallon can and saves me about three bucks a month. Alternately, instead of having the trash picked up every two weeks, which is standard, you can opt for once a month and that cuts it down even further--my neighbor does that. I use the compost bin for my yucky food trash and recycle everything I can, and with my one 13 gallon trash bag for the two weeks plus two weeks of kitty litter cleanings in individual poop disposal bags (which are biodegradable, I do what I can!) I have just enough room in the bin for trash. It does burn my ass that they've cut down considerably on what's considered recyclable due to China no longer wanting to be our landfill but they don't even consider going back to trash every week and in fact they've been charging us MORE to recycle less and a lot of our recyclable stuff goes to landfill. So fuck them, big plastic shit's going in the recycle bin whether they do the right thing or not.
Oh, and Tri-Met is the overall public transportation department, and the MAX is the train.
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I was on 1x/month service for years until they switched me to 1x/four weeks. This means on occasion I will have 2 pickups in one month, which means that instead of putting out trash in the first week of the month I'll have to put it out in the
last week. And apparently I'm not the only one who forgets which freakin day to put out their trash: other residents on my block have complained. Now if I miss my date, I can set out my can the next trash day and not be penalized/charged.
And don't get me started on plastics recycling! (Too late.) I had two bags of plastic grocery bags that I was driving around, trying to locate a recycling station (like they used to have outside of every grocery store) for weeks before learning about the Chinese boycott. The helpful clerk at Trader Joes told me to dump it with my household garbage, because it'll be buried underground.