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Originally Posted by hairy_Palms  we have alternate weeks, one week recyclin, one week rubbish, but living in a 5 person student house we produce a LOT of rubbish, we usually have 2 bags of just beer cans/soft drink bottles per fortnight,but they only take 3 bags per household so we have backlogs and usually put it in the huge bins owned by the nearby pub at 2oclock in the morning. |
A few years ago, the grocery stores started locking their garbage bins, ostensibly so that homeless people would not take food that had been thrown out, but the real reason they locked them is so that people would not try to save on garbage and recycling fees by dumping their garbage in them at night. Now, people dump their used appliances and clothing at the second-hand shops in the middle of the night. It is illegal to do that, but they still do it.
I live in a college town, meaning the biggest thing here is the college.
Each year when students leave town after graduating, they dump appliances by the side of the road, rather than pay for proper disposal.