Trash Options?
 

If I need to leave town on a non-trash day, is there a public dumpster in TV where I can off load bagged trash?

I don't want to put it out early as a courtesy to my neighbors and when the non-courteous do so, wildlife always seems to get a hold of it.

Excellent question. I am hoping for some good answers.

A small amount................postal station.

A bag or two...........ask & take to neighbor.

We always take to a neighbor to take care of the trash, I help them, they help me.

I’ve done the postal station a couple of times. But only a grocery store plastic bag size. We plan it so we don’t have much trash. If we are a few days after trash day we use that as an excuse to eat out and not generate any trash.

yup, that's what we do.

Plus, putting the trash in the postal station can covers up the dog poop : )

We leave it in the garage. Neighbor comes over on trash day and puts it at the curb. We have four or five neighbors that we all do this for.

There's always a dumpster next to a rec center. All ends up in the same place.

trash
 

When going out of town, I take my trash bags to the big dumpster at my Rec center (not going to mention the name) as I don't want it at left at the curb and critters ripping open the bags.The dumpster is enclosed and unlocked and I always see other garbage bags in it, so I believe it's ok. And there's always ample room in the dumpster.

Same... We often drive north at 0:dark 30, and when we've dropped off a bag of trash, we've often seen one of the Community Watch cars in the parking lot. I asked if it was okay, and they told me it was fine...

Our neighbors put their trash in a big rubbermaid trash can just inside their carport, and we roll it out to the end of their driveway the night before trash day. We roll it back empty at the end of that day.

We roll our own out once a month or so, when we weed the garden beds and trim the shrubs and what not, or if we have stinky food (like a chicken carcass and shrimp tails) that we don't want to sit in the kitchen trash bin. The trash guys haven't ever complained. But we put the big bag in the garbage can, and tie the bag, and the trash guy can just tip the can over the back of his truck and the bag slides right out, sealed and tidy.

i'm always happy to put out trash for a traveling friend. maybe ask someone in your area?

It's true, the trash guys are very good, helpful, professional workers. they get xtra $$ @ Christmastime!

I don't think there is anything that is designated as a "public" dumpster. Typically, dumpsters are privately owned and someone is paying a monthly rental and service fee to use them.

We've not known of one and travel often been here a long time. We've always had to impose on a neighbor and then reciprocated of course. Have noticed (it's very obvious) that the AB&B places (not talking about long term renters, or seasonal folks) just put trash out any day of the week and leave, those places, three in our neighborhood and large homes they are, always have bags of trash no matter if they are there one night, 2, or a long weekend, might be the owners have told them the MUST not leave trash in the home ?

Yes, I give them gift cards AND always wait with warm home made cookies also.

I doubt you’ll get jail time if you dump a bag on occasion

This is one of the perks I miss of living in New York.
There you could get rid of your garbage any time or day of the week.
All you had to do was gift wrap it leave it on the street and within second someone would come along and steal it.

Postal station is for paper only not food trash but asking a neighbor is a good idea. They help you, you help them, makes for a good neighbor.

Paper only? What is your source for this information? Please provide a link.

I occasionally see people disposing of their garbage bags in rec center dumpsters and always wondered why anyone would do that when we have garbage pickup twice a week. Now I know.

Postal station is paper only and NO DOG POOP. The pick ups there must be less frequent and they do not want critters or bad smells. Makea sense.

I have seen a few signs about no dog poop, but nothing about "paper only". Do you have a source for this information? My postal station says nothing about what you can and cannot dispose of.

Here you go - Eligible Residential Drop-Off Items
Sumter County Solid Waste does provide a Citizen’s Drop-Off Area (CDA) at 819 CR 529, Lake Panasoffkee, FL 33538 for residents to drop off the following acceptable items for a fee (See Fee Schedule below):

Residential/Household Class 1 Waste/Garbage
Residential Recyclable Materials – No Charge
Plastics #1 through #7
Aluminum, Tin, and Steel Cans
Mixed Paper (Magazines, Newsprint, Office Paper,
Phone Books, Catalogs)
Clean Paper Bags
Waste Tires
Batteries, Car, rechargeable, normal household batteries
Scrap Metal
Cardboard
Brush, Construction, and Demolition Debris
Electronics
Furniture
Fire Extinguisher

Fees Effective as of January 1, 2021 | Sumter County, FL - Official Website

Recycle and dumpster for Marion County on Rt 42 in Wiersdale.

97th Street: garbage cans right outside the tenements.

My wife tried leaving ME at a public dumpster, but the kindly Community Service people brought me back.

Next time, have her PM me, I'll show her how to lock the top. ;)

Neighbors
 

Neighbors helping neighbors! That’s what it’s all about!

And that is the correct solution.

There are trash bins at our postal station and no signs restricting what can be put in them. I mean, if I have a dunkin cup in my golf cart I'm gonna put it in there.

I believe that post was debunked earlier. It is just one opinion.

Wow....a whole thread about trash and not one rant about ‘plastic bags’! Progress

Re: the dumpsters at rec centers and other areas in/around The Villages:

Those are paid for by whoever owns the property the dumpster sits on, they're not part of the amenities. You're not "allowed" to put your trash in them. However, the property managers/owners/neighbors aren't really going to care if you use them. "Accepting that you do this" is not "tacit permission." If you lift the lid to toss a trash bag in, and a rat comes out and bites you, you can't sue the property owner for having unsanitary conditions. That's because you didn't have the right to do that in the first place. You do it at your own risk, which is fine - I did the same thing once up north when our community dumpster was full and the Wawa down the street had room in theirs for a trash bag.

As for the trash cans at the postal stations: they're INTENDED for people to toss whatever mail they don't want to take home with them. That might be plastic wrapping, it might be junk mail, it might be small boxes or bubble wrap, or envelopes, and so on. Maybe you brought your Wendy's soda cup with you while reading through your mail and now it's empty so you toss that in too.

But it's not intended for you to clean out three months worth of crap in your car and stuff a garbage bag into the can, and it's not intended for you to put feces in it.

You shouldn't NEED rules for this. It's called "being a civilized adult living in a first-world country, and having a mother who cared enough about her child's future to teach them manners."

If you had a horrible mother, you could be forgiven. If not, then it's on you to behave like a civilized adult, whether the rules say you have to or not.

Or as many on here say....and do...’the rules are for thee....but not for me’!

Funny part is, if you do some diligence cross threads...these are some of the same people that flex about having all this money earning interest and owning multiple TV properties...yet can’t follow a simple expectation disposing of their lazy trash.

Tmi
 

Wow.... all I really wanted to know was if there was a "proper" place for me to drop a single bag of kitchen trash on my way out of town. :o

In my area the trash can would be thrown out too. These trucks are not automated for them as they are up north.

I think you got your answer.....ask a neighbor. There is no other ‘sanctioned’ way to dispose of it on TV property.

Correct. Getting rid of trash is not free.