Lightning Poll on Waste Management

[smk67]

Ithaca NY - I pay a hauler ($10-15/month) plus a trash tag for each bag, roughly $.75 each.

[Shajen]

I dunno. I push the trash can out to the curb and they take it.

I assume it's a part of my property taxes.

[Borst]

No city pick up for me (smaller western wisconsin town, suburb of the twin cities) There's several options for trash pick up, I pay a smaller company $12/month and they pick it up from right next to my garage every Friday. Could pay only $8/month for curb pick up from the large WM company but then I'd have to remember to drag it down there every week.

[Lazy Meatball]

Small worcester, ma suburb. I believe trash pickup is run by the town and funded by property taxes. I remember selling those Worcester Trash bags when I worked at Spag's and thought it was a screwjob. Those bags were so thin.

I know of a couple more affluent Massachusetts towns (Duxbury, and I think Weston) that do not have any trash pickup, just a town dump. Always funny to see those yuppies in their Beamers and Lexus's pawing through their own garbage like some sort of racoon.

[WhiteWolf]

San Jose, CA... we pay a bill, making the check out to "City of San Jose"

[Peter Harris]

Essex, England, UK.

All waste management is paid for via council tax fees. this amounts to around £1600/year here, which includes sewerage and trash management, plus sundry other things.

[jjp]

Torrance, CA
Pay the city every other month for water and trash.

[bosoxfan]

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Combination of property taxes and our city requires us to purchase special city trash bags @ $1 apiece. Worcester, MA.

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The small ones are only 50 cents. The only problem with those is they rip easier than a wet paper bag.

[Hellrazor]

Marlboro, NJ - pay choice of trash collection company directly.

Next town over - my inlaws have included into property taxes (but still get to choose who they want to collect it-weird)

[hedxcold]

nyc its part of the taxes