Garbage Collection

[Thanz]

I know what you are thinking - how did this exciting topic not have it's own thread already? Well, now your silent prayers have been answered!

I am curious as to the mix of private/public garbage collection after private collection was raised in another thread. If you have private collection, do you also recycle? What are the rates? How is the service?

I have municipal collection, and separate my refuse into 4 categories: paper/cardboard recycling; glass/can recycling; organic waste; and the rest of the trash. The orgaincs, which contains all of the stinky stuff, gets picked up weekly and processed into fertilizer. The other stuff alternates weeks - recycling one week, trash the next.

How do the rest of you get rid of your trash?

 

[Luke T.]

Tag sale.

 

[Mr Manifesto]

I recycle everything possible. We have municipal collection, except of course we call it 'council', being a more civilised nation.

Organic stuff goes in the backyard. I haven't paid for compost for a decade. Not bad when you consider I'm only 30.

I want a compost toilet. It sh!ts me thinking of all the sh!t that goes out to sea.

 

[roger]

Christmas presents.

 

[rikzilla]

I also enjoy dumping my personal "organics" in Mr. Manifesto's backyard. I give him as much sh!t as possible,
every day.

All recyclables are abducted every week by the
Planet X-tians, while they groom my yard into exotic
and mysterious "grass circles".

-z

 

[Mr Manifesto]

I also enjoy dumping my personal "organics" in Mr. Manifesto's backyard. I give him as much sh!t as possible,
every day.

All recyclables are abducted every week by the
Planet X-tians, while they groom my yard into exotic
and mysterious "grass circles".

-z

All retards are forbidden to reply to, or make reference to, my posts. You are being reported to the mods.

 

[rikzilla]

All retards are forbidden to reply to, or make reference to, my posts. You are being reported to the mods.

Classic!


Hmm...(peeking over fence) I see many overflowing garbage bags full of soiled porno...are those considered "recyclable" or "organic"??

-z

 

[Luke T.]

I also enjoy dumping my personal "organics" in Mr. Manifesto's backyard. I give him as much sh!t as possible,
every day.

All recyclables are abducted every week by the
Planet X-tians, while they groom my yard into exotic
and mysterious "grass circles".

-z

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As usual, if any appeals are made on this ruling to Linda, I will disavow all knowledge of who rikzilla and Mr. Manifesto are.</font></td></tr></table>

 

[Mr Manifesto]

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As usual, if any appeals are made on this ruling to Linda, I will disavow all knowledge of who rikzilla and Mr. Manifesto are.</font></td></tr></table>

 

[epepke]

Well, if you need guaranteed finite time for an interactive application, the train algorithm is pretty good. However, I've found that a simple non-recursive mark-and-sweep is so fast that it usually works if you can identify times of inactivity to run it.

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Well, if you need guaranteed finite time for an interactive application, the train algorithm is pretty good. However, I've found that a simple non-recursive mark-and-sweep is so fast that it usually works if you can identify times of inactivity to run it.

 

[whitefork]

We schlep it to the dump, we sort the paper, cardboard, toxics, glass bottles, plastics, deposit bottles, electronic equipment, scrap metal and non-recyclable garbage. There's a small building that has space for things that somebody else might want - generally treadmills and such like. They take Christmas trees in season.

The local swineherd picks up organic waste once a week. I compost all the yard waste.

You can pay someone to haul it away for you, but it's a nice Saturday morning ritual for me.

 

[epepke]

I was being silly. We've had quite enough seriousness recently. "Garbage collection" is a name for storage reclamation in computers.

However, it isn't entirely silly. The train algorithm is a lot like having centralized recycling centers. Only the things that can easily be recycled get put into the last "car" in the train, and then that gets disposed of. A distributed version of mark-and-sweep is a bit like putting deposits on bottles and cans. Each person with trash is encouraged by the deposit to do a mark (This is what I really need) and sweep (This is what it would be profitable to recycle) operation.

 

[Shaun from Scotland]

Where's the "throw it over the fence into your neighbours garden" option?

 

[rikzilla]

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As usual, if any appeals are made on this ruling to Linda, I will disavow all knowledge of who rikzilla and Mr. Manifesto are.</font></td></tr></table>

I am shamed! As per the rules of our ruler I have paid the fine. Tell Linda to check the JREF fax machine, the 500 dollar bill is from me.

Good one Manifesto! However, you ARE on my list!

-z

 

[The Fool]

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As usual, if any appeals are made on this ruling to Linda, I will disavow all knowledge of who rikzilla and Mr. Manifesto are.</font></td></tr></table>

Luke...is this a moderators post? I have had my post edited by a mod for the crime of lampooning these official boxes. And been reminded that these are a solemn and serious thing..... Do you think it is appropriate that you should be using them as a joke? Not that I disagree with you, I also think they are a joke. I was just wondering if all moderators are required to take them seriously?
Could you please report your post to yourself for me?

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Luke...is this a moderators post? I have had my post edited by a mod for the crime of lampooning these official boxes. And been reminded that these are a solemn and serious thing..... Do you think it is appropriate that you should be using them as a joke? Not that I disagree with you, I also think they are a joke. I was just wondering if all moderators are required to take them seriously?
Could you please report your post to yourself for me?

Violations of Rule 11 are no laughing matter, Fool. Pray you don't find yourself in breach of it.

 

[_Q_]

We compost what we can, recycle what we can ($12 per year for curbside collection), and haul the rest to the landfill (pay by weight, doesn't amount to more than a few dollars per month).

 

[WildCat]

I just throw everything in the same bag. The scavengers in the alley will then pick through it for recyclables. Ain't city life convenient!

Put an old stove, refrigerator, radiator, etc. out in the alley and it won't last half an hour.

 

[Michael Redman]

We have private garbage collection and municiple recycling, and I'm not sure which option to check. The recycling is free, but we have to sort. The garbage is paid by the landlord, so I have no idea what it cost.

Wildcat reminds me that when we lived in Houston, all the aluminum would be picked out of our recycling bin by "entrepreneurs" between the time we put it out and the time it was collected.