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[anEgrahm]

My council comes around once a week for recyclables and general waste, and once a fortnight for green waste. It's pretty good, and they make sure that we always know when our 'day' is by posting us a calendar for the year to come and the year ahead. Every week about half our neighborhood puts their bin out.

What's it like in your area?

[mariaandrea]

I'm in a small apartment complex (about 24 units) in a recyclable friendly city. They come every Monday and Friday for both recyclables and waste and once a week for the food waste. We only have 1 regular garbage dumpster, but have 2 recycle dumpsters because most trash is recyclable here and 1 smaller bin for food and yard waste because our city composts it. It works out very well.

[tigerlily78]

I have to pay for a private waste hauler because of where I live (outside of the "city" limits, which is literally about 100 yards from our house... so annoying, otherwise we would have municipal waste service).

They come once a week on the same day for both trash and recycling. They don't offer green waste service, so we do our own composting.

I would like to upgrade from my little 10/15 gallon recycle totes to these new mid-sized rolling bins the trash company now offers. It would be nice to only have to make one or two trips to the curb, not four.

[kat74]

We have private companies who come around once a week to pick up all the rubbish, we usually keep the degradable separate so that when they come to pick, it will be easier for them. They pick mine every Saturday in the morning, they also provide us with the bags to put the rubbish so they just come and pick. The council only collect the markets and town cabbages.

[makeitmom]

We have recycle pick-up here (Charlotte, NC) every other week, but our recycle reciprocal is as large as our trash reciprocal. In fact its pretty ironic that our trash is only half full while our recycle reciprocal is always 'brimming'. That in itself makes me feel good that we're doing our part.

We're looking into getting a second recycle reciprocal (which we can, for a small fee) so we won't have to keep contacting the city about picking up over excess!

[jasserEnv]

We have recycling alternating every week between cardboard and plastic/metal/glass. They pick up garbage every week as well as organics. Many people have tried to get them to pick up garbage every two weeks but they don't seem interested at all because that would force some people to start separating their organics. Overall however, it is not bad now that we have the organics program.

[joeldgreat]

Not in our neighborhood though. But we had made our effort to recycle some of our recyclable waste. Some of them includes used newspapers, bottles, and plastic cans. Every month or so, I drop it buy in the junk shop to be sold. The junk shops would sold it to factories for recycling. Once in a while too, I do make a compost pit wherein I tell some of my neighbors to set aside there waste that can be used for making a compost. After several months, I had used the compost soil and planted anything and some of them were given to my neighbors.

[Pushhyarag2000]

The municipality has now outsourced the regular door to door waste collection. These agencies do a good job of collecting regular waste every single day from the doorstep. In fact, collection, segregation tipping and final disposal is a far more organized activity in the mega municipal limits right now, which is a significant improvement in municipal waste handling.

[zararina]

Our city government collect general waste several times a week if not on the daily basis ( I am not sure since I do not tract it). There was just a specific area near us where it was the "dumping" area with trash cans so we could throw there garbage anytime and any day. And then it will be just collected there.
We could sell almost all materials/thrash that can be recycled just like tin cans, plastics, paper, metal, etc in the junk shop. So we just keep those materials first at home until we had accumulated enough to sell it.

[Jessi]

I actually don't have a recycling pickup at all. In my city, I have a place I can drop off aluminum cans and scrap metal, but nothing even remotely close to me for plastic bottles, paper, etc. The Boy Scouts used to accept newspapers and they would take it to another city to be recycled as one of their projects, but even they don't do that any more. :(

[shenk]

In our village the regular watse gets collected each week, the recycable just once a month. And they only collect PET bottles and paper:( No metal, or glass.

[rbaker_59]

Here where I live, they pick up regular waste once a week. Recyclables are picked up once every two weeks. The recyling is still very new to our city, so a lot of people use the recylce bins for other things. They are suppose to go to a city requirement where everyone will be required to recycle. And, there are only certain things they are set up to recycle.

[Guardian]

I get pick up once a week. Normal waste, and recyclable. We used to have a large trash can and a very small bin for recyclables. In a week I have more recyclables than waste, so I had too much for the small bin, and the wind would take stuff out and spread it. The guys understandably didn't pick it up, so I called every other day until I got a larger can for the recyclable. It took two months, but not only did I get a larger bin, they replaced the entire neighborhoods with large recycle cans.

Unfortunately though half the neighborhood still doesn't recycle.

[Sandra Piddock]

I guess we're really lucky, because our trash is picked up every day apart from Sundays and public holidays. Although there are recycling containers dotted around the village, we are also allowed to put everything in the main garbage skips, including garden waste. Here, they still employ people to sort the trash, so I tend to put everything in the main skip, because I feel I'm helping to keep someone in a job.

[dconklin]

Our town has their own garbage and recycle trucks. The whole town is on a schedule in which everyday M-F the trucks are out. We all have one garbage day a week, the town gets sectioned off to pick up certain areas on certain days. Recycling and garbage pick up are on the same day. Certain things have to be brought to our county building and do not get picked up-this includes batteries. I do not agree with that, I think too many people throw the batteries in the garbage since you have to drive 20-30 minutes to dispose of them.