Is There A Limit To Garbage Pick Up?

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Author Message   Arnomation Citizen Username: Arnomation Post Number: 111 Registered: 7-2003 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 9:16 am:        Is there a limit to the amount of garbage that they will pick up from your house? I left out about eight bags of trash all neatly tied up in the heavy duty contractor bags from Home Depot and it looks like they only took a couple of them. It also looks like some had little holes in them like they ripped them open to see what was inside and decided not to take them. Could it be that they won't take certain types of trash? Some contained cut up carpeting and some other not-so typical household trash.   DrFalomar Citizen Username: Drfalomar Post Number: 138 Registered: 7-2003 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 9:36 am:        I think they'll take the contents of two garbage cans of a certain size. I imagine that those contractor bags made them thing you were tossing building materials, which they're not supposed to take. A tip, however, will get them to do so, as well as some discretion in the packaging.   Earlster Citizen Username: Earlster Post Number: 110 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:03 pm:        If you have a lot of building materials, put it in a separate pile, talk to the driver and they will come back after their rounds and pick it up. It's not free, but cheaper then getting a dumpster. Hey, you didn't hear it from me ;)   jeffl Citizen Username: Jeffl Post Number: 292 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 4:21 pm:        When we have lots of trash we'll put non-food items in a bag, curbside, and they always pick them up. People on my block put lots of stuff curbside and it always seems to go.