I so agree with this. We need to produce less waste packaging, not focus on trying to chase dwindling recycle markets. I recently saw oranges in a grocery store that were wrapped in clear plastic film. WHY?

But perhaps the developer could contract with a company that supplies trash cans and has the robot arm to pick them up.


When we rented one winter in the Low Country--Beaufort, SC--they had this type of trash pickup. What we learned from a neighbor was if it couldn't fit in the trash can and the lid be closed, they wouldn't take it. It's much more strict. On the plus side... in TV they will take just about anything, inside the bag or out. You could put your mother-in-law out there in a chair and they would take her.

What does the container or new trucks have to do with the possible elimination of recycling because there is no place that will accept the contents?

I think the issue was having to put recycles in plastic bags as opposed to in cans, and it got sidetracked further into trash pickup.


The way things go on these threads...

Do they take ex wives as well? :icon_wink:

Sorry, but when done properly, compost NEVER smells!
Heat, mostly from the sun, is exactly what is necessary to compost.
In all the many years I have composted, I have never had rats.

Most food scraps are a no-no as is manure. And where would you get manure anyway???
Plus, it would be pretty difficult for a critter to get into most compost bins designed for home use.

I think you have to call first.:duck:

Yep...:agree:

Bingo!!!

City of Wildwood uses a company with the arms as other have talked about. 1 blue can for garbage and 1 green can for recycles. Picked up once a week. If you have yard waste it can either go in the green can and or the big brown bags. My Daughters pickup is once a week for both cans and any brown bags. Bigger items you must call ahead for pickup. Those cans are provided by the Trash company I do believe because when she moved in the cans were already at the hose with the instructions printed on top. Perhaps IF we had a different trash hauler in TV we'd have the cans with the pickup arms. I do agree the US has gotten lazy as far as their recycle efforts.

It -can- smell. Depends on how you do your composting. Out in the edges of the burbs near farmland, it's pretty common to grab a bucket of chicken poop from a neighbor's yard and add it to the heap to help break down the organic material. If the wind shifts and you're downwind of the shift, it can get pretty nauseating.

It's the manure that stinks, not the compost.
Manure, compost, chalk and cheese.

If you put chicken poop into your compost heap and mix it around, then it is your compost that is stinking. And you shouldn't ever put cheese in a compost heap.

Don't understand what cans get you. We had them in PA and it was a pain....to the degree that neighbors would let them out all day until they got home from work or the weather improved. This system is so much easier. Also, two stage trash trucks are noisier since the need to run them them at every stop and still need to compact. Here they run the compactor when the rear bin is full and that can take an entire block to fill. The cost of a two stage truck is more expensive and of course we would pay for that. Don't understand the infatuation with cans.

There are simply too many folks who have the time and energy to complain and critisize, but do not have the time and energy to learn about the community in which they chose to live.