Two times a week in the towns I lived in before here. I'm sure there are rural areas that are once a week but glad it's twice a week in The Villages.

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Garbage issue
 

I seems mathematically logical that if the Garbage pickup was reduced to just one day the cost would be substantially less.

Some great feedback on the downside

You know you’ve truly become old people when you are arguing over $2 bucks a month. Tell your kids so they can have a good laugh behind your backs.

I don't see it as money saved. I see it as less garbage covering the planet. When you can afford the $2/month extra waste, then you can afford the $3/month to prevent extra waste. Reduce, re-use, recycle, re-purpose. So those kids can thank you when their kids grow up in a country that isn't covered with refuse.

Approaching 100 posts on putting dumpsters at mail stations, that ain't gonna happen. Oh my!:blahblahblah:
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Sorry, I don’t buy it, the recyclable market has dried up, hence the increase in disposal costs. I personally don’t see the crisis. But feel free to spend your time sorting your trash, it’s a great Country.

:bigbow: So right, even if you are on a fixed income you could eat out one less time per month and pay the increase for the entire year.

Speaking of moving to one pickup a week saving money is going to effect the cost insignificantly. The only thing you save is the fuel for the truck. You would have to lay people off to save salary and have continued monthly & yearly savings. You still have to pay the increase in price per ton of disposing of the waste. Reducing number of pickups will not result in meaningful savings.

Somewhat a newbie
 

Way to make someone feel welcome!! When you buy of course you want to be there year round, goes without saying, but for most of us, it takes a few years for that to happen.
So if that transition hasn't happened and you might only be there 6 of the 12months, well that is a big payment for most people....and unnecessary .

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Ohiobuckeye
 

Good idea but you can bet some people will have 2 or more blocks to haul their trash there & you can bet they aren’t going to like doing that.

I find it amazing to think that if garbage is picked up less often, we will produce less garbage. With that thought if we don’t have any pick ups we will not produce any garbage at all. My city up north thinks so, we of course, don’t have any less garbage... who buys stuff just to produce garbage? But we have a lot of irritated people and some happy raccoons and other pests and dumping.

Ohiobuckeye
 

Yes one employee & how many lose their jobs? Good idea but don’t think this will fly with Waste Management.

No I think that is a bad idea since the pools are right there and sitting outside you can smell the garbage and also it would look disgusting. I am quite satisfied leaving the trash system the way it is.

I agree with you 100%. Also, people would be dumping their electronics and everything else under the sun in these dumpsters, both Villagers and outsiders.

Yes, I am impressed with TV’s garbage service as it is, myself.

I'm not sure what it takes before something is declared a bad idea, but it appears we have not yet reached it.

I don't think that we should all have to haul our trash to a central location unless our trash costs go down. However, I do believe that at a minimum, there really should be a recycling container for paper only at the post office areas for our convenience . I also think that we should be allowed to put our trash into a trash bin with lid so that the crows, that are as big as pigeons in my neighborhood, can not ravish our trash bags open when we bring them to the street to be picked up. I have to sprinkle ammonia on my bags to keep the pigeon size crows away..It works!

Problem solved.

There are apparently still many ways to say the same thing........:duck:

Multiple dumpsters at the mail stations is the absolute worse idea I can imagine for handling our trash. Northern Wisconsin, for example, has "collection sites" where residents have to transport their trash to dumpsters and it is a horrible blight to the otherwise attractive area. Some residents there even find it entertaining to go watch the wildlife grazing there at night. Forget it!

The positive of dumpster is if you are leaving on a non trash day you have someplace to put your trash on the way out. $18 should not break the bank and to make the change might lower the fee to $14-15 dollars as you have to figure in the rental charges etc. I know the campground we stay at pays $500 per truck visit so it would add up over time. The you add in the smell next to the pool and the mess a dumpster brings and I don’t think it will fly. I don’t might taking a cart ride to throw out trash but the location is not good.

Just a question for those that live part time or lived in a city, town, community that the municipality provides utilities. When you leave or left for any amount of time could you suspend utilities and not pay for the time you were gone? Never lived anywhere where they will let you suspend any utilities for anything. You could shut them off but then there was a reconnect fee. Even when not there and no garbage or water use there was still a charge. Why would it be any different here?

The most practical approach for lowering the cost is to put the contract out to bid when it next comes up for renewal. That said, I suspect that there might not be a lot of difference between the contractors that are able to handle a client like TV. There are a number of considerations to address with this suggestion. First, there would be a additional cost for the dumpsters you are suggesting be placed near the postal stations, there would be a cost associated with preparing the site and for the routine servicing of them (so a cost analysis would need to be done and at best I suspect it would come out as breakeven). Scheduling when the trash is removed would be another logistical hurdle. It would certainly be disruptive to have a trash removal truck show up when we're all jockeying for a parking spot to pick up our mail, and surely the abutting neighbors wouldn't want to be awoken early in the morning or late in the evening by these trucks. Secondly, placing dumpsters at the postal stations/pool areas would result in an unpleasant odor in this climate and become an attraction for the critters that roam about during the day and night. Lastly I'm certain that anyone that owned a home that abutted any of the postal/pool areas would organize a protest. Let's let this one go.

Oh yes they might. Don't you remember all the service trucks and other people dumping their trash on Villages property during Hurricane Irma?? It happened all over town.

Years back when we were 'snow birds' in Ft Lauderdale we would receive a 1 month break on the trash pickup fee for the 7 months that we were north...that stopped about 10 years ago.

Dumping, in some poor areas of the world people dump their trash across the street, in school yards, church yards. Desperation drives people.

In my city you have to pay for utilities whether you use them or not. As a snowbird in TV right now, it would be nice to pay seasonally, but that would drive up the price for everyone.

Garbage cans, in my opinion, look ugly and are noisy.

Where we live up north there is no trash pick up unless the homeowner hires a private service. We bring our trash to a transfer station as needed and pay by the bag. The transfer station also takes recyclables if sorted (paper, plastic, glass, and metal) for free which gives people a financial incentive to recycle rather than paying to fill trash bags with recyclable items. They also take used motor oil for free since they use it to heat in the colder months. I pass the transfer station almost daily on my way to the YMCA so it is very convenient.

When we are at our Villages home we never pay a penny for trash removal, which is how it should be when we not generating any waste.

The only problem with paying by the bag is that in the country, where we live up north, many people burn their trash because that costs them nothing. We have a neighbor who does this and when the wind is blowing toward our home sometimes the smell is nasty. Not to mention how bad it is for the environment.

What's next? How about a thread on Burn Barrels. No just joking.

As a frequent annual renter, I would not want to drag the trash to the local postal station and be required to deal with the sloppiness of other folks...we've all seen what the area around dumpsters looks like. The same folks that never return carts to the corral and never rake sand traps would be tossing bags anywhere in the vicinity of the dumpsters.

Honestly, I cannot believe how The Villages gets away with just throwing the trash curbside in plastic bags without bins. We've rented in the Orlando area many times, and have seen the local critters and turkey vultures literally knock the plastic bins over to get at the food scraps on garbage day tearing into the trash making a mess...they had to go to large totes to mitigate this problem. In spite of this, I cannot remember ever seeing the trash bags torn open by critters in The Villages...must be they don't have gate passes and IDs.

Another issue that always surprises me is the fact that the owners never have sufficient trash barrels and trash bags in their homes for renters. I realize renters are responsible for consumables like trash bags, and I always purchase them. However, the owners of these beautiful homes are the ones that lose when renters just dump bags on the floors inviting vermin to feast.

I can just see the handicapped and really elderly people trying to drag their thrash....

While we were in TV we saw not one vermin.... seriously... but in the city up north where we have every kind of cans available: garbage, recycling, food bins etc there are regular parties of raccoons I counted 12 last night, 5 skunks, a couple of Norway rats in my tiny backyard which is located in one of the best residential areas. I can imagine what the other areas must be like. TV is doing so much better!

JW
 

Have garage pickup once a week to cut cost

There is a fixed cost for each hour a Garbage Truck is moving. For the life of me, I don't understand why the Truck goes down one side of the road and later in the day comes back to finish the other side of the road. Double the mileage double the fuel and double the wear and tear. Instant cost savings, do both sides of the road in one swipe.

Forget about the delivery of garbage to any centralized site. No Way!!! No How!! Crazy Idea!!!

People will come from all over the place to use unsupervised dumpsters to rid themselves of construction debris. Imagine the Tree Debris in the dumpster instead of just garbage. Instead of paying per load at the dump lets go to The Villages for the free dumpster usage. There would be the biggest uprising in the history of The Villages if we had to make a garbage delivery. I like ideas that are out of the box. This idea is outta this world. Forget It! No disrespect intended to the OP!

Once a week would be acceptable for us if needed. I think the price we pay per year is very reasonable.

I unfortunately agree that "people" are slobs. My workdays included MDs and PHDs, who couldn't seem to find the trash can in the men's room. Saving 💰 always a good idea, but efforts must be tempered with practicality.

Considering the price of the trash collection I think trying to second guess how to save money on trash collection is an effort that would be better spent on something with a higher potential savings.

Where we are now it is $10/month to drive 10 miles and throw our trash in a dumpster. I will gladly pay the fee at TV to have it picked up at my curbside.

I feel the price is fine and I am happy with twice a week.

I think that is a splendid idea! I currently dump my trash/garbage and yard waste at the Lake County (I live in Pine Ridge) Convenience Center off of Rolling Acres on Tuesday/Saturday. This is because I get weary of the color coded bags; one day trash/yard waste/recycle protocols. I realize my approach is not for everybody. I would welcome taking the shorter drive to the mail drop off/pick up area.

You are joking, right? My collection is 50 cents a day. Put a dumpster out which looks like crap , smells and attracts animals so I can transport my trash and recycling by car or golf cart? Give me a break.

That is a terrible idea!

Dumping trash in bins sounds like what we do at camp, not in a civilized area.