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Amie Brockway-Metcalf
Citizen
Username: Amie
Post Number: 189
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 - 5:17 pm: | 
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Anyone know when it is? I noticed Maplewood had one last week. |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 1974
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 - 5:49 pm: |
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Sorry Amie, we don't get them. We used to, but our BOT deemed it too costly for the town. So.. you can take some things to the recycling center on designated "container days" or, if you have something as large as a sofa or fridge, you can make an appointment for the town to come retrieve it from your curb.
I miss those old days... my kids had a ball finding "treasures" in the stuff our neighbors put out. But, a lot of folk found it bothersome - vans driving by at all hours, messing up the neat piles..etc.. oh well. |
Amie Brockway-Metcalf
Citizen
Username: Amie
Post Number: 190
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 - 7:35 pm: |
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Nuts. How do the Seton Hall students decorate their apartments??! I know all my early places were decorated in "Early American Big Trash Day."
Thanks. |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2860
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 - 10:05 pm: |
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They scrounge Maplewood when the town holds its version of "Trash Day". But now Maplewood is cutting back from two of those days to just one each year, so I guess the Seton Hall kids will be competing more ferociously than ever for whatever salvage is available... Competing with each other, and, of course, the additional out-of-town scavengers who always seem to show up for those events...
-s.
BTW: I used to get kinda creeped out by all those hungry eyes staring out of cars as they'd creep slowly up and down our streets those spring and fall evenings before the next day's trash pickups... |
Analog01
Citizen
Username: Analog01
Post Number: 75
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 9, 2005 - 12:49 am: |
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I used to live in MPLWD, and yeah, it was a little weird seeing the folks from out-of-town cruise around and dig for trash. but hey, as long as it was gone I didn't care who took the stuff.
I would love it if "trash day" came back to SO. |
argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 576
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 9, 2005 - 7:46 am: |
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BTW, Don't bother with SO's "DIY" trash day unless you absolutely can't find any other way to get rid of something (this includes illegal, unethical, and immoral means). You will waste the better part of a day of your life, probably a beautiful sunny Saturday, sitting in your car packed to the gills with crap and waiting in line for hours for the priviledge of disposing of it. It is most definitely a last resort. Yet people flock to it like it was a town carnival or something, then post here afterwards about how much "fun" they had.
This, along with the once-every-blue-moon recycling collection schedule, are easily the two most annoying "service" things I find about this town.
I'd really like to know how much money is actually "saved" by denying this service -- especially when we pay on our own for trash pickup anyway!
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sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 2025
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 9, 2005 - 8:43 am: |
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Is it true that we are going to one trash day for Maplewood (again)? They did that a year or so ago but then put it back to two. I hadn't heard that it was going back to one again. |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2862
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 9, 2005 - 12:03 pm: |
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I read about it on another thread.
-s. |
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