Showing posts with label Grrrr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grrrr. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Where can you throw your trash?

So I am sure that everyone knows about my progress on getting rid of trash at the house that we are renting. I know that you have seen the pictures of the garage (from the post "Before and After - Cleaning). I encourage you to look at those pictures again and pay attention to the material (trash).

This weekend I started working on the other side of the garage. The reason that I waited so long was because I was told in January that I was only allowed to make 4 loads at the landfill (free of charge). So I waited till the beginning of the month. I went over there with a full load yesterday morning. I go to the window with my proof of residence and the woman tells me that I am going to have to pay $20 for the refrigerator on the trailer, because the door was still on it. I said "OK, I wont throw it away", then she wants to charge me for the rest of the material on the trailer ($28/ton). I ask "WHY"? She tells me that it is CONSTRUCTION material. So I give in and try to pay for it, but I have no cash/check. I go home and figure I may as well burn all of the wood on the trailer to get rid of the CONSTRUCTION material. I burn all of the wood, load up some more trash and I go back to the landfill. Again the same woman tells me I have to pay for CONSTRUCTION material. "Where do you see CONSTRUCTION material? That is all trash on there. How can you construct anything with what I am throwing away?" She disagrees and refuses to come out and look at the load. I get a phone number and call this person to try and get an explaination of what CONSTRUCTION material means to the landfill. I explain my situation with the house, she understands and calls the landfill to check and make sure that the material looks like trash. I get back to the window and the woman tells me, "I still say its CONSTRUCTION material, I am going to let you through free of charge for this load, but do not come back unless you want to pay $$. That is when I told the woman that I never understood why people would throw loads of trash on the side of the road, UNTIL NOW! I only have about 5 "trash can fulls" left to dump. I guess I could go down the road and put a little bit of trash in each can that I pass. I wish that I could just do the right thing and bring it to the landfill.

I understand that someone could possibly be making money by cleaning up and making dumps for free. But, what is someone to do when they move into a house like mine with "collectors" living there for 50 years?