One Person's Trash is Another Person's Profit  

I actually generate very little trash. I try to limit buying things with a lot of packaging, which is hard when I buy electronics. I tend to not use too many disposable products like paper plates or subscribe to newspapers. I also rarely let food spoil and eat almost everything I buy. I would love to have a compost bin for things like banana peels, lettuce that went bad, etc. But, since I don't have a place to put one, it would be hard. I have no yard or even a balcony to keep a bin.

I don't have a lot of trash, but like you, I have to pay for pick up anyway. I could do well with twice a month and would be glad to only pay when for that, but they won't do it that way. I have a compost area, not a bin, but I want a compost tumbler one of these days. It would be faster and take less room to process.

(I, too, have cable TV. I watch it about two hours a week on the average. I'm thinking that's a waste of money!)

That's a nice composting bin. I don't generate a lot of trash like a lot of other people seem to do since I live alone. The city picks mine up once a week but I have to pay a garbage bill about every four months. It's a bunch of malarchey, if you ask me, and I remember how everybody griped about it when they first started charging us!

Hi Drannhh..

I have to take this trash down the street to a tip that the landlord owns..but really he is supposed to do it but you know he is ever so busy..so I don't mind, if the car is going that is hahah.

I too wish I could have a compost heap, but not here because the skunks would live in it.

Even with two kids in the home, I do not generate too much trash. I try to recycle a lot. As you know, I'm also trying to get a compost pit or pot for the apartment complex and that would reduce the garbage significantly. We are still in the planning stage...hope to start implementing it by next month.
We have a bin outside the complex where all the trash is collected and the government picks it up. We do not have to pay for it and I don't know how often the truck comes to pick it up...but I've never seen the bin in an over flowing condition...so I guess it's done frequently.

Hi dranhh.Well at hostel I just throw it outside my room in the dust bin.A worker picks it up everyday.The person is paid by the hostel management.At home the people from municipality pick it up and we dont have to pay them either.Anyways have a nice day ..

--Shames--

We create more trash than I would like, but we also have an option of taking a lot of the items we have to the recycling center. One thing they have added this last year or so is a "reuse" area, so that if I for instance have a desk I no longer need, I just place it in the covered area and someone who wants it takes it. I have taken things myself. It helps. Kind of like freecycle, but no advertising or waiting for pick up.

In our country it is not necessarily be true that one person's trash is Another person's Profit,in fact very recently or if more specifically its in the last months News that Cobalt-60 was been sold to as garbage by one of our Capital's University and unfortunately one who first started working upon it got the radiation and died while another 6 people are still languishing under treatment at hospital.Our country is the worlds biggest dumping ground/sites for the developed countries,and the irony is that it provides livelihood to millions.

In my household a bit of trash is generated and put in to the same basket/bucket without separating them as compost,plastic,and as such and therefore the garbage picker do it for themselves,and yes we pay for the disposal of our garbage while at the municipal area the garbage vehicle comes and picks it up with a cost levied upon.

Earthworms are the best friends of soil,and we Human beings,the HOMOSAPEIANS ARE THE WORST TO OUR MOTHER EARTH !!!

in the city i live in, we are only allowed one bag of garbage per week. they do collect recycled materials as well as a green bin (basically stuff that you would throw on a compost pile and since we live in a condo, this works well). we manage to only have one bag of trash, its not really that hard.

there are only 2 of us, and every week we have to put out one blue bag of garbage and two green bags for wet garbage.
in the green bags are either mostly food gone bad and cat litters. but anything left of vegetables and fruit that we don't eat, we give them to the tree in the backyard - of course then squirrels and racoons get to them
I don't know if this is a lot of trash, but I am thinking to make my own compost and paper recycling when our budget allows it.