<p>Just got my quarterly bill in the mail for sewer and trash and was curious how it compared to other areas. I always wonder if things are higher or lower here then in other places. They put a survey in with my bill asking if I’d favor eliminating grass collection services and also if I’d be in favor of having once a week garbage collection. </p>
<p>So, how much do you guys pay for garbage? How often do they come? Does it include recycling?</p>
<p>I pay 47 for Sewer and 78 for garbage. They come twice a week for garbage, one of those visits they take recycling and once a week for grass during the summer. We can pretty much give anything to garbage - they take appliances, carpet, grass, etc. We also have a yard recycling center where we can take tree branches and whatnot and I believe they turn it into mulch for the community.</p>
<p>We are members of our local transfer station. We take our own trash and recycling there ourselves. A yearly “pass” is $30. It’s an outing…we go every Saturday and there are lots of our friends there too. In the fall, it’s where all the politicians hang out on Saturdays. I didn’t like the “reliability” of our trash pick up folks…this is much easier.</p>
<p>Ours is included in our town taxes…so…it must be free (heavy dose of sarcasm there).</p>
<p>Trash is picked once a week, recycling every other week. We just switched to the “single stream” recycling, so we don’t have to sort it any more, just pitch all the stuff in the container. That’s kinda nice, although when they did that they gave us a trash container that’s much smaller. They’ll only take what is in the container. If you have extra, you have to put it in special purple bags that you have to buy from the town garage. </p>
<p>We have a well and septic system so don’t pay for water or sewer.</p>
<p>With taxes, $102/quarter for trash (1 32 gallon can/week) and compostable and recyclable pickup – compostables and recyclables are picked up on an alternating week basis. Prices go up substantially if you want to throw away more trash.</p>
<p>Wastewater – about $85 a quarter. We pay more for wastewater than we do for potable water.</p>
<p>It sounds like my town does come quite frequently compared to what I’ve seen here so far… I wonder if it will go down in price at all if they start coming once a week instead of twice. I mean, it’s the same amount of garbage… just collected differently!</p>
<p>We do single stream recycling as well… which I think is nice also… since they come every week for that here so it doesn’t really build up much in the container. I remember at my ex boyfriends house they didn’t have recycling pickup however they chose to recycle everything and take it themselves. They put it in giant bins and once a month we would take it to their recycling center and we’d have to sort it out where it had to go. Aluminum cans, metals, clear bottles, green bottles, brown bottles, newspapers, etc. I like that I can just throw that all in my recycle bin and they sort it out for me. Much less sticky!!</p>
<p>My trash people are very reliable - they come at like 5-6 in the morning, never later. I put my trash out before I go to sleep, and I bring the containers back before I leave for work in the morning. They go down our road and even down our back alley in case anyone puts their trash out back rather then in the front.</p>
<p>I like that we have unlimited trash. When I tore the carpet out of my house and put it out back I wasn’t sure if they would take it all or not but they did. I must have had four or five bags of carpet padding and gosh knows how many rolls of carpet. I cut it into three feet strips and rolled it up for them.</p>
<p>When leaves start to fall we just rake our leaves to the edge of our property and they come by once every week or so and suck them all up into a leaf eater machine (I’m sure it has some technical name but that’s what I call it!).</p>
<p>Our trash is included in our taxes. We can put out as many cans as we want and can buy them from anywhere. They seem to take just about anything, we’ve thrown out a lot of carpet and furniture. They come once a week. Not sure how often they come for recycling because my parents refuse to recycle.</p>
<p>Trash is $14/mo, picked up twice a week. Recycling is free, picked up weekly and provided by the county. They don’t quite single-stream, but do all glass/metal/plastic on one container and all paper/cardboard/books/magazines in the other, and do yard waste in separate containers as well.</p>
<p>Sewer is included in our water bill. Water bill is sent quarterly and is generally about $90-100 for that period, and sewage is about half of that amount – so figure ~$15/mo.</p>
<p>Wish we had leaf-clearing here! Some parts of the county do (the incorporated towns), but we get to bag it all for recycling (one year we stopped counting at 89 bags – we have lots of huge oak trees) or pay someone to blow/pick up from the curb, depending on how ambitious we are that year and how many kids are here to help.</p>
<p>The county dump is a few miles from us, so we pile stuff in the van when and haul stuff there when necessary. They do hazardous material recycling there, too.</p>
<p>Trash and recycling included in our waaaay too high property taxes.
Two times/week for regular trash. Once per week for recycling.
Large trash (appliances, furniture) once per week on second pickup day.
Leaves and brush to curb during season, no bagging necessary so quite easy.</p>
<p>We can at any time (and sometimes do) bring stuff to our town trash site if we want to get rid of something not on a pickup day.</p>
<p>About $120 per quarter for our city sewer. NOT included in property taxes but billed by town separately. I guess this is to make me think that my property taxes are not really that high after all.</p>
<p>Ours is included in our city taxes (we get to pay extra since we live in the city, oh boy!).</p>
<p>They pick up trash and recycling once a week, same day, no limit. They will pick up furniture and appliances if you call ahead. They also pick up leaves and yard debris - can’t be bagged, must be on street, so driving down our already narrow streets during the fall means a lot of weaving and bobbing to avoid the leaf piles.</p>
<p>Not sure about sewage - I’m assuming it’s in our water bill. Will have to ask hubby.</p>
<p>Trash pick up once a week, included in our taxes.</p>
<p>Recycling picked up once a month or we can take it ourselves at any time to the recycling center - no charge.</p>
<p>We have a bulk waste pick up once a year - large stuff, construction debris, appliances, tires, etc. All the surrounding towns know and it becomes shopping days, lol! I guess people pick up some good stuff.</p>
<p>We took out a lot of carpeting and tile over the summer. I did not want to store it until bulk waste pick up week, so S and I took it to the landfill ourselves. It took us 3 trips and cost about $40 to get rid of it all. Well worth it!</p>
<p>No water or sewage bill as we have well and septic.</p>
<p>Trash/recycling included in taxes, trash is limited to 1 64 gallon town provided bin (this was problematic when my mother & son were still here). Overflow bags can be purchased for $2 each, they are the size of a large kitchen trash bag.</p>
<p>Water/sewer runs about $150 a quarter. It would be much higher if we had a trophy lawn that we watered every day in season.</p>
<p>I buy a dump sticker for $150/yr or so, and trash uses PAYT bags which cost an extra $2.50 each.So total cost is around $250/year and I have to schlep it to the dump. </p>
<p>We have an incredible recycling setup though, including a book exchange and a put-n-take. Some years I get more in books than I spend in dump fees.</p>
<p>My town has town wells and I have a septic system, so it’s maybe $50/quarter. Most of the surrounding towns are on the regional system and can easily pay $2000/year for water and sewer. Yes, two thousand.</p>
<p>Trash is not picked up by the town. We contract with a private trash carrier.</p>
<p>We used to pay $50 a month for once a week pickup, including recyclables. When Times Were Tough in our household, I called to cancel; I figured we’d drive to the dump once a week, as some of our friends do. Instead, the trash hauler offered us $25 a month. </p>
<p>Interesting how the threat of cancellation led them to cut the cost in half!!</p>
<p>At home, the city’s contractor has provided a container on wheels for each house. They have two different sizes available. Trash is picked up twice a week. They only take what is in the container because it is done by the driver of the truck from the cab.</p>
<p>At school, the city there had just launched their new automated program. They reduced trash pick-up to once a week, but on the second day they do recycling now. The city provided each house with a trash container (big) and a recycling container (smaller).</p>
<p>Sewer is combined with our water bill which runs about $35/mo. We can select our own trash service. The company we use charges $54/quarter for twice weekly pick-up (no recyclables). They will take most anything too. In fact, I called recently to “brag” on the pick-up guys because they picked up a bunch of brush that I hadn’t bagged and was even on the other side of the driveway from the cans</p>
<p>Trash is $125 a quarter. Picked up once a week. We have our choice of 3 haulers. It’s been going up and up and up so just told H he could shop it around this month. Sewer in in the water bill. Water bill runs around $230 a quarter.</p>
<p>$21.27/month; once a week; includes recycling of paper, aluminum and plastic; also includes a fall leaf pick-up program if you get the leaves to the curb.</p>
<p>We pay $100/once a year to get basically unlimited yard waste disposal. The most you can put out a week, though, is six yard waste bags. If you don’t purchase the annual program, then you have to buy stickers to put on each bag, which probably run about $2.50/piece, but can cost less if you buy larger quantities of stickers at a time.</p>
<p>Sewer is included in the water bill, so I don’t know what that is.</p>
<p>Twice a week trash pickup is $36/mo. Sewer is $100 per quarter. Water runs $30/mo. And on top of all that our property taxes are $11,000 a year. </p>