a coffee, a coffee. my castle for a coffee. oh never mind.
on 07/12/2011 at 05:12 AM
Not so much peiper - we are constantly ‘hiding’ things in our garbage just to get rid of it. And take a read - garbage, recycle and excess ‘junk’ pickup are so very, very precise. Our issue is yard waste as we have the garden, flower boxes and the back wild bit. Every spring and fall - we’d over our limit on yard waste alone (and this year with three trees down - well that is a whole nother problem). So we pick and chose what to throw into the back area (which is a mess and fire hazard) and what to dump.
I remember as a child going directly (when we lived in Montana) to the dump - You’d see everything there. Now I’m considering using the old family financial papers as weed prevention in the flower beds under the mulch - can’t afford to shred it - and certainly won’t get the money from the non-existent ‘estate’ (I jest, it actually ended up better than the negative sum I thought it would be after expenses).
I’m just hoping that the lawyer finalizes the estate before he dies or I do - then I can actually start to get rid of the pure junk - which will load up our garbage even more.
Thanks for the memory refresh Wardmama. Going to the dump with dad was pure excitement for my brother and I as boys. Dump trucks and bulldozers all over the place, seagulls by the thousands, watching garbage trucks tip and dump, that smell! Mountains of treasure as far as we were concerned.
That dump is now a golf course. I have no idea where the garbage goes these days. They don’t do “comingle” recycling in my mother’s town, so everyone has 5 or 6 color coded recycle bins to manage, plus town issued green waste bags and rules for how big the bundle of tied up sticks they’re allowed to put out, tied with organic string only. And the garbage cops go around and ticket folks. They have yard Nazis too; mow your lawn and keep everything looking nice or get a ticket. Better get rid of that old car up on blocks in the side yard. So much for freedom, but when the housing bubble pushed the home prices into the stratosphere, and the tax bills along with them, suddenly people got very itchy that their neighbor’s places weren’t up to snuff, which could impact the sales price of their homes down the street.
I’m old enough to remember that people used to burn leaves in the fall. That’s a scent memory I doubt if I’ll ever awaken again. Where I live now we have half of Nicaragua working for us as landscapers. Leaves and grass get taken away in trucks. We don’t bother with sorting recycling other than newspaper and cardboard. Sometimes I wonder where all that stuff goes to too. It’s got to be a multi-billion dollar industry, somewhere.
Ive rewired old homes in the UK, the victorian ones are a real challenge, never had wires when built so often wired before conduit or with galv that has lived in a damp wall for 50 years!! we still burn leaves here in rural Ontario!
I read that englands recycling idea was to ship it to china, with the recession there are no longer the empty ships so its being stores on disused WW2 airfields.Posted by Chris Edwards
07/12/2011 at 10:07 AM
Part of the issue with contractors taking rubbish stems from “our friends the EU” who made the UK bring in a land fill tax. The upshot of this was “fly tipping” or dumping rubbish in fields etc. Typical of EU stupidity.
Yeah I think you need a permit to burn here - I don’t know - all I remember is in KY - 1990s - you could rake the yard trash into the ditches (mandatory in KY to have ditches if you weren’t living in the city/town proper) and burn it up - I also (against my protests) remember my m-i-l raking it all up (forcing me along with her) to bag it all up one year. Should have stood my ground with a ‘that isn’t how it’s done here’ - but have always tried to play nice, until she told me to keep my mouth shut at a family picnic.
Our garbage goes to Rumpke ‘mountain’ the bane of everyone who lives (rural mind you - but just off the by-pass interstate leg) around it - but I’ve driven in the area several times, as they turn it continually - don’t smell anything compared to the good ole days.
And yes, we too have the rigid rules on even how big the cardboard boxes are for recycling - which is why periodically we stuff cardboard into our garbage - last thing I’m going to do is measure and cut to throw the crap away. I don’t think that they’ve gotten down to the organic string - but I’m sure that its coming.
Damn Dems - voted down the stupid light bulb ban - jobs to china for a hazmat mess of a crappy (and dangerous) enviro-wacko idea.
07/12/2011 at 07:04 AM
