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How long b4 critters find our tasty treats on garbage day?
We leave tasty treats at end of driveway. Racoon loved our garbage until we changed to garbage cans. Have you had critters visiting you?
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We put our trash out early in the morning rather than leave it out all night, no critter problems.
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Haven't had any critter problems in the 8 years we have lived in the villages. And we put our trash out at night. Bonita.
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Crows enjoy inspecting all the trash on my street.
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Also the night before in Bonita nol critters. However we have had people drive by and check out the items left at the curb which is fine by me!
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We have lived here three years and have not had anything tear our trash bag in the last two years. Our trash does not have much "garbage" because we eat most everything we cook. If we have any food products, especially meat or fish papers or trimmings from meat, in the trash bag, we spray the inside with Lysol. We put ours out the night before.
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We have a cat, and I make sure that used litter goes in any trash bag that has old meat bones or equal "treats", so far this has kept animals away from the trash.
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Been here almost 10 yrs without any issues. We've put garbage out (mostly) late at night because even early, sometimes the truck beats us. Would rather chance the critter thing then have stinky garbage in the garage (even if put in a covered garbage container it could stink).
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If you ever miss the truck just drive around and find them, stop a few houses in front of the truck and take it out of your trunk, they'll take it.
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Really,??? No one had had a critter dig in those plastic or paper garbage bags, really??? In Orlando reports are different, maybe they have tastier garbage and theirs are in garbage cans that bears have found.
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I will never understand why residents don't use their garbage disposal for "garbage" instead of throwing it in the trash.
I'm not speaking about things like corn cobs or steak bones -- only food items that can be ground up. |
Never had any problems for 5 years, until our neighbor installed a bird feeder.
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How long b4 critters find our tasty treats on garbage day?
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This year the most beautiful beach in the US is voted as Kailua Beach in Hawaii. In the Spring last year there were huge “icebergs” of trash, mostly plastics that washed ashore making the lovely Kailua beach look like a garbage dump. Killing the Honu sea turtles, the endangered Nene ducks that thought the plastic was food. Some of the debris was from the tsunami that effected Japan a while back. Many volunteers worked on the beach. Even children could be seen digging for cigarette butts, collecting them by the bagful, to clean the beach.
A little bit of forward thinking can make such an impact when we do it collectively. |
I had crows poke holes in a bag a couple of times in nine years.
I put organic waste that can't go in the disposer (like those absorbent pads in packaged meat) in a bag in the freezer until trash day. I only need to take out the trash every other week, though, which is too long for organic materials to marinate in the kitchen garbage can. |
I fear what will happen is that TV will stop picking up the recycling and instead tell us to take it to our designated recycling center. That means the back of one of our cars will be bursting at the seams with recyclables until "someone" takes it to the center.:ohdear:
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Was told up north that the black bags are less attractive to crows than white ones. Seemed to work there and here too. BTW, crows remember easy pickings and will develop a route over time.
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5 years and no critter issues here. We put it out the night before.
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Thirteen years TV in four different Villages and never had a critter get into my garbage. I don’t expect any problems.
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5 1/2 years in Village of Largo and we put trash out the night before pickup, some of our neighbors who are going away put their trash out the day before with Zero problems.
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Up in Michigan, we once pulled a Siamese cat out of our garbage can. Musta been salmon night. |
In some areas they are permitted. But neighbors warned me that the reason no one actually uses them at the curbside is because the trash people sometimes will take the whole thing and toss it in the truck, rather than empty it out and put it back on the curb.
I don't know if there's truth to that or not, but it's what I was told. I think all those bags are unsightly. A single trash barrel and bucket for recyclables is less unattractive than a bunch of bags, especially if some folks use clear ones that expose every used, dirty whatever they've tossed in the trash. I imagine going for a morning walk has to be a nightmare on trash day. |
Unlike many Villages, we are surrounded by undeveloped areas, which have ample critters. We have passed garbage bags that have been opened by various animals. Regarding garbage cans, that is our safeguard for such an outcome. Legal or not legal, may be living in Lady Lake, I'm not sure but, thankful I don't have to spend the morning cleaning up.
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We put out the trash the night before and have never had a critter break open the bag. We have been doing this for over 10 years in The Villages.
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Let's try something different! Let's look at the facts! Attached are the guidelines for trash and recycle in TV. |
Garbage does not belong in trash bags. It goes down the garbage disposer.
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Buy Bags for Trash? Never!
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Years ago when I was a newbie in TV, I was told that clear bags were for trash and white bags were for recycle (or something like that) and trash went on one side of your driveway and recycle went on the other side? I may have that backward but you get my drift. Well, I refuse to buy trash bags! Yes -- refuse. I use WalMart bags or whatever I happen to have and somehow, my trash still gets picked up, regardless of which side of the driveway the bags are on. The color of the bags doesn't seem to matter either. I agree the bags are unsightly. Seeing them in front of just about every house reminds me of what some inner-city neighborhoods look like. In addition, we really don't need trash pickup twice a week. It would be much less expensive and make more sense to only have pickup once a week. |
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Bingo! I've been saying the same thing for years. I wish everyone would do that. |
Over five years and no problem with critters
getting into garbage! Personally I really like the TV trash pickup system it makes it easy to recycle, and the pickups are made so early, bags are gone really fast! |
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Those get put in the trash. |
And once the bags are gone, there is nothing left behind. You don’t have the big trash cans left on the street, sometimes all day
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A personal experience: We have garbage cans, food cans and recycling cans for each house here. The garbage gets collected once in 14 days. You need an extra fridge to store your garbage. And we have raccoon infestation, 14 raccoons last night in my small backyard. And unprecedented rat infestation this year. There are skunks also and I am located in the middle of a large city in a very residential “gentrified” area.
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Some think garbage cans are unsightly and where would they be stored? Let’s face it lots of people are just lazy no matter what system it looks unsightly. I walk early morning and I see holes in bags all the time from critters with wings, tails, and house pets (cats) let out to roam. Some people don’t see the a problem cause the trash is long gone before the get up. |
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Yessiree! Me thinks yer rite! |
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