At the risk of being flamed again, if disposal is not free and convenient, some people will throw it overboard or just leave it lying around. Not me, but some people. Again, I see it often.
Not flaming, but unfortunately, even when the disposal is free and convenient, some people will still toss out trash where ever they please.
We live in the country but the nearest town is only a few minutes away. The town has two grocery stores with in 1/4 mile of each other. The nearest grocery stores outside of town are 30-45 minutes away which means people have to go shopping in those stores unless they haul in groceries from out of town.
There is a county dump station behind one of the grocery stores which makes it pretty danged convenient to dump your trash when you got get groceries.
Furthermore, while the county had to implement a sticker to dump trash because the dump stations near the county line were being heavily used by people in other counties, the station in town does NOT require a sticker to encourage county residents to properly dispose of trash.
There is no fee to dump trash. The dump stations are paid for via property tax bills, so if you rent or own property in the county, you have paid for access, and again, there is not dump charge.
Properly disposing of trash in my area is easy, convenient, cheap, and paid for once a year....
But we still have people illegally dumping trash.
There was one trailer I saw years ago, where the people just took the garbage and put it in the woods.
They used white trash bags and the woods were full of the white bages.
We live at the end of a dead end road and we have a gate across the road to protect our property and minimize illegal trash dumping. Notice the word minimize....
One Friday evening, I heard a car down at the gate and I thought it was the wife but it was not her. She came home later and locked the gate. Monday when I went to work, I stopped to unlock the gate and noticed that the person/people in the car I had heard on Friday had tossed trash into the woods.
To say I was ticked is an understatement. It was pouring rain and by the time I could get the trash a few days later, it was pretty rank. If the $%^&*() had left the trash at the gate it would have been easy because I was taking a load of trash to the dump when I found that %^&*()_ trash.
A couple of weeks later, the $%^&*()_ did it again but at least this time he left it at the gate.
In the mean time, he had stopped his car, walked into the woods a good distance and tossed another bag on someone else's property.
I think this moron was working on a house in the neighborhood because this dumping stopped after awhile. The thing is, the house was under construction and had a dumpster to use.....
Having said that, we have had neighbors dump yard trash on our place, and on two occasions, used cat litter. I think the later was a teenager who was told to take it to the dump and just put it on our place.
The one that really make me scratch my head was some dumping that took place on land next to ours. A large parcel was subdivided and they cleared the new lots lines so there was about 15-20 feet of space through the woods which was very odd. One of the lot line intersects our land and I walked down the line to see what was going on. Well, I was barely on the other property when I noticed a bunch of trash.
Some dufus had driven a truck, ATV or tractor down the line and dumped the trash in the woods.
Furthermore, someone had dumped not one, but two 4 ton hydraulic jacks on the road that had been built in the new subdivision.
I am pretty sure I know who did this. They lived near the new subdivision and had trespassed on our place one time. What is so odd about this is that they HAVE to go to the local grocery stores for food which puts them right close to the dump station they can use at no cost. Whoever dumped the trash on the neighboring property spent more time committing a crime than it would have taken to go to the dump.
Some people are dumber than rocks.
Later,
Dan
