Roadside trash pickup - should uniform rolling cans be required and provided?

[Smiling JOe]

As someone that just invested about $65 at HD on one of these big, hopefully beefy, trashcans with the attached lid, that the truck arm lifts up, I can tell you that our nightly racoon trash dumping has come to a stop. Yeah!!! We haven't had a problem with bears. If this comes to pass, I'd like to think I won't have to fork over more money for the WM company issued can.

Sorry to disappoint you, but if you got it for only $65, it is one which will fall apart within a couple of years. Who knew that trashcans were so dang expensive?

 

[Kurt]

Sorry to disappoint you, but if you got it for only $65, it is one which will fall apart within a couple of years. Who knew that trashcans were so dang expensive?

I think I got the same one. Seems very solid and has a lifetime warranty. Also keeps the coons out.

 

[Matt J]

How do you throw out a trash can anyway?

 

[SGB]

Sorry to disappoint you, but if you got it for only $65, it is one which will fall apart within a couple of years. Who knew that trashcans were so dang expensive?

It seems heavier and better made than any other trash can available at the big box stores. I'll let you know how it goes. Right now it's worth it just because we don't have to clean up the mess the coons leave every night. There's an even bigger one of the same type that sells for $90!!

To throw out your old garbage can, crush it, put it out, and it disappeared on trash day.

 

[Smiling JOe]

The heavy duty cans like used by the cities in PC and Asheville, are much larger and stronger than any I've ever seen in HD or Lowe's.

Lifetime warranty is good, but typically, only if you have a receipt.

 

[Matt J]

or if the manufacturer is still in business.

 

[Sarah Moss]

How to throw away a garbage can

How do you throw out a trash can anyway?

I don't think it's very easy, but maybe this will help.

How to Throw Away a Garbage Can | eHow.com


Even the best garbage can reaches the end of its life, or you move and don't need it anymore but it's too yucky to leave for new owners. Anyone who has tried to throw away a garbage can can tell you, that is isn't quite as easy as it seems.

Instructions - Things You'll Need:
Large garbage bags
Poster board and markers

Step 1 Put a sign on the empty garbage can for the sanitation crew that says "please throw away the garbage can." This can take repeated attempts?and still doesn't always work. The crews move quickly through the route and don't always stop to read.

Step 2 Disguise the garbage can. Find a huge plastic bag and put the garbage can inside, or put big bags together so it looks like garbage.

Step 3 Contact the local sanitation department and explain your problem. There may be a way to throw away a garbage can that works the first or second or third time.

Step 4 Call a junk disposal service. This is a bit extreme since you end up paying for someone to take away your garbage can, but the frustration from failed attempts at other methods makes it easy to write the check.

Step 5 Decide you don't need to throw away the garbage can. Wash it out with a high-powered hose and lots of soap put it into the back yard for storing outdoor toys, birdseed or even turn it into a composter.

Step 6 Clean the garbage can. Place it in front of your house on garbage day, away from the other garbage, with a big poster that says "Free! Take Me Away." Amazingly enough, someone just might.