Posted by Dan Birchall on March 20, 2010, 4:12 am
none@none.net (Ohioguy) wrote:
> At our new city, they are separate. According to our neighbor, trash
> pickup is $30 a month.
> I was curious - is this high, low, average, or what?
I suspect prices will vary from place to place, but for weekly pickup
(up to 2 cans, though I can rarely even fill one) by a small private
company, I'm paying $21/month. $30 doesn't sound too unreasonable.
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Posted by hchickpea on March 20, 2010, 11:12 am
> Previously, we lived in a city where water, sewer & trash were
>bundled together.
> At our new city, they are separate. According to our neighbor, trash
>pickup is $30 a month.
> I was curious - is this high, low, average, or what?
> I was tempted to call around and see if any private companies would
>service us. We have water, telephone, electric, etc., but nobody has
>contacted us about setting up trash pickup. I was wondering if we might
>be able to set something up with a larger container and just twice a
>month, or something like that.
$10/mo here. Living in the country, we have a lot less need for trash
service. Yard waste? shove it in a pile or burn it. Wood or lots of
paper? Use a burn barrel about once or twice a year. Food waste?
You mean what gets tossed out for birds or cirtters or what goes in
the compost? In Florida we commonly had two or more big bags of
garbage a week, plus sometimes having yard waste that was about twenty
bags. Here we average one small bag a week.
> pickup is $30 a month.
> I was curious - is this high, low, average, or what?