[MikeVillages]

Originally Posted by Eagles8

I've not seen 1 bag ripped open in 2 years here.

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Really?

We were concern at first but never had an issue over the years.

[JohnN]

I would hate to have my wife pushing a big bin out to the curb twice a week. Now she can make multiple trips when needed with the bags. Makes my back hurt thinking about her pushing that bin!

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

The crows won't pick the bags open if you wait til it's dark the night before, to put the bags out for the next morning's pickup. They usually do the scavenger thing in the early afternoon.

If you tie the bags tightly enough, the other critters in the area won't bother them either.

We have a trash can with wheels that we use to "store" our trash in. And then we wheel it to the curb, pull the bag out of the can, set it down on the curb, and wheel the empty can back under the carport up against the laundry shed, where it's completely out of sight to any neighbors passing by. That way we don't have to keep the smelly chicken or fish carcasses in the house for a few nights waiting for trash day if that's what we've cooked that week. The pizza box gets folded up and put in that can too, so it doesn't take up most of the room in our kitchen trash container.

Our trash guys will empty the can for us if we leave it out at the curb, but that's only because we don't abuse their generosity. They're not supposed to do that. They have warned others in the area that it wasn't allowed. I think we leave it out maybe once every few months, when we have a lot of grass clippings and yardwork waste that's too heavy for us to lift on our own.

We always use a can liner, so maybe they don't mind since they don't have to pick up the whole can, they just have to yank the filled liner out of it and swing it into the back of their truck.

Can liner... that's the part I don't like. Our neighbor in Michigan did this. First their trash went into a kitchen plastic bag, which then went into a huge trash can liner bag. All because they didn't want to have to clean their trash can, which was only filled with plastic bags anyway. Those huge can liners were much thicker than normal trash bags and just added more to the landfill.

If we have a mess of bones or fish carcass, we put it in reusable Snapware and freeze it till trash day. As there are just the two of us, we've never had to store a bag in the garage.

[MarshBendLover]

Added unnecessary weight for the sanitation worker to have to pick up, unnecessary time for worker to lift and return, people claiming damage to their precious can and lazy irresponsible owners leaving cans out days before and days after.

If you ever watch our sanitation workers, they walk, pick bag or two up, throw 20 feet into truck, then continue walking to next driveway. Quick and easy. You add in bins and costs rise in services and delays. You only needs bins in the lower economic areas.

Former city council Miami/Dade.

[Old Traveller]

I love the current system of picking up trash. So happy they stopped recycling and burn all the trash and recycling to generate electricity. They collect over 200 tons of metal after incinerating the trash. Welcome to the 21st Century.

[Aces4]

Originally Posted by MarshBendLover

Added unnecessary weight for the sanitation worker to have to pick up, unnecessary time for worker to lift and return, people claiming damage to their precious can and lazy irresponsible owners leaving cans out days before and days after.

If you ever watch our sanitation workers, they walk, pick bag or two up, throw 20 feet into truck, then continue walking to next driveway. Quick and easy. You add in bins and costs rise in services and delays. You only needs bins in the lower economic areas.

Former city council Miami/Dade.

Garbage cans with back rollers can be wheeled to the curb and the truck with the hydraulic arm picks it up, dumps it, sets it down and moves to the next house. No worker's backs are involved.

That said, The Villages garbage handling is maximum service for the density here. It works well particularly with such a mobile population that can put their garbage at the curb, leave for home in Kansas early in the AM , and there is no worry about putting cans/containers back in the garage. I think TV got the garbage issue right!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Can liner... that's the part I don't like. Our neighbor in Michigan did this. First their trash went into a kitchen plastic bag, which then went into a huge trash can liner bag. All because they didn't want to have to clean their trash can, which was only filled with plastic bags anyway. Those huge can liners were much thicker than normal trash bags and just added more to the landfill.

If we have a mess of bones or fish carcass, we put it in reusable Snapware and freeze it till trash day. As there are just the two of us, we've never had to store a bag in the garage.

We never do it that way. Our outdoor can is primarily for yard waste. I weed the flower beds a couple times every month, we trim the shrubs, etc. etc. We also put anything that would otherwise stink up the house in the can. The can sits in the carport, being slowly filled up, until it's almost full. MEANWHILE, we still do our weekly trash pickup. Often, we only need it once a week, not twice. So we save bigtime on bags that way.

Once the big can is almost full, we do a final sweep of the yard and empty the plastics and cardboard from the crate we used to use for recycling, and haul out the big can, plus whatever weekly trash is in the house.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by jimmyinvillages

In any normal city garbage seems to be picked up in a civilized manner. You put your trash in your bin during the week, you wheel it out on trash pickup day, and the truck picks it up.

It is very antiquated and unhygienic how we have it here in the Villages. Leaving trash on the ground gets a crazy amount of bugs/rodents, and makes a soupy mess when it rains. It's also terrible for the crew to have to handle leaky dirty cardboard and trash bags flying around in the rain overnight.

Find My District - The Villages Community Development Districts


I recommend people find their CDD reps here and email them a simple request to modernize the system as I have done as well.

Thank you

Cause they pick up twice week, no need for garage bins and different equipment to pick up bins which will only pick once week so have smell stitch. System works just fine.

[Dotneko]

No, no, a thousand times no. I dont want trash cans. They become a dirty, smelly, maggotty mess that needs regular scrubbing. I dont want them stored in my garage. I dont want to listen to cans banging as they go to every house.

[BrianL99]

There is one and only one reason, some areas (outside TV), use those huge plastic containers .... to automate (mechanize) the "pick up" process.

It's got nothing to do with mess, leaky bags, boxes or anything like that.

Don't worry, it will show up in The Villages in the near future. The world is phasing out manual labor of any sort.

[Ruger2506]

Originally Posted by Dotneko

No, no, a thousand times no. I dont want trash cans. They become a dirty, smelly, maggotty mess that needs regular scrubbing. I dont want them stored in my garage. I dont want to listen to cans banging as they go to every house.

Right. Especially here. Any outdoorsman knows how bad they can get. I'll be finding out this August how bad alligator parts are in the trash.

[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by jimmyinvillages

In any normal city garbage seems to be picked up in a civilized manner. You put your trash in your bin during the week, you wheel it out on trash pickup day, and the truck picks it up.

It is very antiquated and unhygienic how we have it here in the Villages. Leaving trash on the ground gets a crazy amount of bugs/rodents, and makes a soupy mess when it rains. It's also terrible for the crew to have to handle leaky dirty cardboard and trash bags flying around in the rain overnight.

Find My District - The Villages Community Development Districts

I recommend people find their CDD reps here and email them a simple request to modernize the system as I have done as well.

Thank you

Tell me you're new here and want to immediately change things so they're like they were "up north" without telling me you're new here.

There're are several very old coined terms for said behavior. They rhyme with carpet b@gger and yankee. There are some more political alignments as well, but that is a verboten topic on TOTV so we will not go down that road today.

[Papa_lecki]

A solution looking for a problem


Works great now. I really don’t want my neighbor storing their trash that hasn’t been washed in 3 year can outside, along their house, 10 feet from my house.

[CarlR33]

No, up north we had the room in the garage or outside but not here. Then you had the HOA rule the cans could not be visible from the front of the home or street. BIG headache as I had to build a garden fence around mine to keep out of view. The only way it would work here is if the builder constructed a dedicated place outside the garage for the cans so not in view. I recently did a drive through of another community on the coast ironically on trash day and they had two cans (one for recycle and one for garbage) not just one. See attached picture.

[kkingston57]

Originally Posted by jimmyinvillages

In any normal city garbage seems to be picked up in a civilized manner. You put your trash in your bin during the week, you wheel it out on trash pickup day, and the truck picks it up.

It is very antiquated and unhygienic how we have it here in the Villages. Leaving trash on the ground gets a crazy amount of bugs/rodents, and makes a soupy mess when it rains. It's also terrible for the crew to have to handle leaky dirty cardboard and trash bags flying around in the rain overnight.

Find My District - The Villages Community Development Districts

I recommend people find their CDD reps here and email them a simple request to modernize the system as I have done as well.

Thank you

Agree but better than the old system where in we used different colored bags for different items.