When do you take your garbage to the curb?

No set garbage collection here, thanks to apartment life. You get fined $50 if you leave it "insight" and someone who works for the complex walks by..the person below me always has those little pink stickers since she leaves in on the porch, in the corner to "hide it"

I just take it out whenever, probably atleast once a week or so. The dumpsters are at the edge of the complex...a brisk little walk across the grounds.

I cant believe the cops went our for a trash fine . I cant stop laughing. It must be nice to live in a place that the cops have time to respond to this kind of call. We have over 40,000 cops in NYC and they certainly wouldnt have time for garbage violators, too busy picking up the corpses off the street (not in my neighborhood though). anyway that brightened up my day.

Our trash pick-up is on Thursdays, usually gather all of the trash in the house and take trash barrel down on Wednesday evening. We live in county and no set time to take trash barrels down. (I guess he didn't have anything better to do!!) (I can't imagine calling cops over such a pitty thing!)

Paulena

I don't think we're supposed to have ours out before 6pm Wednesday night but some of our neighbors do take it out at like 4 when they get home from work. Woop-de-do. Now if it was windy I might wait longer. We have enough little things here and there lying around this neighborhood.

Our garbage is collected Tuesdays & Fridays anytime from 5pm-midnight. I don't know if there are any rules as to the earliest you can put it out, I normally do it in the afternoon.

we dont.... we've got a yard full of bins that we have to take the trash down to when we run out of space up here

Originally Posted by rosiemac

Are the police seriously called for something at trivial as that?

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Let me tell you, I could fill a book with all the stupid calls we get. Yes, the police DO get garabge complaints just like this.

We don't have a Wheelie bin anymore just council bags and they're collected between 7-8am on Thursday mornings. Recycling is also collected in the same time frame and for the first time ever we've started recycling. It saves a lot of money on council bags. We have no stupid rules about how long the rubbish is allowed out for

Garbage is hilarious for me here in Taiwan. I don't take out the garbage, my doorman picks it up from outside the elevator everyday around 1pm. He then takes it downstairs where someone else takes the recycling away for money. But this recycling person is not part of a government office, they do it for cash. And that's ok by me. I'd rather give my recyclables to someone needy.

But the best part is that the garbage truck comes EVERY day, TWICE a day. They don't pick up bins or cans, you have to run after them and throw your own garbage in!

Oh I lied. The best (or worst if you live here) is that the trucks play songs LOUDLY to remind you that they are coming. They play the song the whole time.

Ours is a bad rendition of "Fur Elise" by Beethoven.

Yes, the garbage truck plays Beethoven!

As close to pickup time as humanly possible. My neighbor's outdoor cat likes to shred the bags and strew the trash across my yard otherwise.

Originally Posted by yangdemei

Oh I lied. The best (or worst if you live here) is that the trucks play songs LOUDLY to remind you that they are coming. They play the song the whole time.

Ours is a bad rendition of "Fur Elise" by Beethoven.

Yes, the garbage truck plays Beethoven!

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This is too funny Our ice cream trucks do that

We usually just burn ours. We do have a trash day though. Tuesdays. But I always forget to take it to the curb and our driveway is very long ( about 550 feet or more).

Originally Posted by yangdemei

Oh I lied. The best (or worst if you live here) is that the trucks play songs LOUDLY to remind you that they are coming. They play the song the whole time.

Ours is a bad rendition of "Fur Elise" by Beethoven.

Yes, the garbage truck plays Beethoven!

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I saw a report about that on German television a few years ago!!! I thought at the time that it was very original. I'm used to the ice cream / water ice trucks in the U.S., and the trucks in Germany that sell fresh produce or eggs in the big cities - they usually have some sort of music recording.