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>we’re so used to free garbage pick-up at home that I never anticipated having to pay for it What locales have free garbage pick-up at home? This is the first
by irrational 7y ago
>we’re so used to free garbage pick-up at home that I never anticipated having to pay for it
What locales have free garbage pick-up at home? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing.
- PhantomGremlin 7y agoNew York City is free for residential. Business trash pickup must be contracted for with a private company. The Mafia used to run a lot of it, but the NY Times claims that's no longer true. Here's an article on the currently screwed up state of commercial trash in NYC: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/opinion/nyc-sanitation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/opinion/nyc-sanitation.ht...
- mtrower 7y agoAnywhere I've lived in Wisconsin is free* residential, contractual for business. Basically what PhantomGremlin said, minus the mafia. I'd always assumed it was this way everywhere in the U.S. Whereabouts do you live, and what is the situation there with residential waste and recycling? * Of course, this is (presumably) funded by city taxes, so "free" means "I don't see the cost explicitly".
- irrational 7y agoI've lived in Florida, Indiana, Texas, Colorado, Utah, California, Oregon, and Puerto Rico. As I recall we had to pay for garbage and recycling everywhere.