What sends me is that he’s still paying an extra $75, which means it’s not about the garbage.
“It’s about sending a message”
What a garbage message.
I guess it’s about the convenience? Trash day only once a month does sound pretty tempting…
Except for the piles of fucking trash
Oh yeah, lol
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Yea, how the fuck is squishing a bunch 3 week old trash at all appealing? Having it sit in a big pile outside attracting animals?
Oh, it’s fake
Once more people get onboard, the price is sure to fall.
Yes, because everyone knows how the more popular things get, the cheaper they become.
Is $125 a month “normal” for houses? I pay $8 but I live in an apartment
In IB, California, I’m paying $105 every three months for 1 trash and 1 recycling bin. With weekly pickup.
A quick Google tells me that in NYC trash companies are limited to $15.89 per hundred pounds.
Either OP has Oscar the Grouch levels of trash to dispose of, or the whole thing is made up.
My guess is that they’re rural. Lots of rural communities have such high trash fees that they’ll opt to just burn it instead. Because no trash company wants to drive 45 minutes outside of town just for one pickup, and the local municipality doesn’t cover them because they’re outside of the city limits.
Isnt throwing garbage free?
(At least here in Greece it is.)
In the USA, you usually pay for garbage collection services which are private companies that provide you trash and recycling bins and they pick them up from your house on a regular schedule, usually once or twice a week. If you live in a rural area, really rural, you might need to handle your own garbage. In these cases you either haul it in your truck to a dump where you either pay a flat rate to dump, or pay by the pound (they weigh your car before and after), or some places allow you burn trash if you’re really in the middle of nowhere.
Sometimes payment for these services is included in rent, HOA fees, or sometimes you hire/pay seperately.
In the USA, you usually pay for garbage collection services which are private companies that provide you trash and recycling bins
what the hell
This varies heavily by location. I’m not sure “usually” comes into it. In and around cities it’s not uncommon for the city government to handle trash collection. Farther out into the 'burbs or in rural locations you might have to hire a private trash company.
What, too much freedom for you to handle?
yeah we got like 6 companies that take care of trash in my neighborhood
I probably should shop around I’ll bet one of them is cheapest
6 different companies?l that just sounds super efficient
U.S. truly is a hypercapitalist hellhole. I’m so glad I don’t live there.
In certain countries you’ll get fined for dumping garbage, which is why divorce is so expensive.
You’re still paying for it, just with taxes.
This is basically how recycling works, except it goes to Indonesia and is put into massive piles that occasionally set on fire.
What an asshole
So that’s where all trash on the roads of India come from
I knew a billion people couldn’t do that, there had to be someone else
I wish my mom actually followed though on sending my brussels sprouts to the starving kids via mail when I was a kid because it would have been hilarious.
Fake and …
Come on, don’t leave us hanging
Everyone is like " garbage collection is free here" no it’s not, what do you think taxes are for
Thats like saying “free refills dont exist, you pay for them beforehand”.
Well if you pay taxes all the time and are used to gaining nothing for it, it feels like the bonuses are free.
