Let's swear at the garbage collector, shall we?

[Kogarashi]

Judging from our area, you need to rent a special dumpster or truck for huge trash loads (the kind you get from renovations, massive tree prunings/removal, or major spring cleaning). For furniture, you just leave it on the curb and someone will pick it up, either city or broke college student (usually the latter).

University grad housing promised that our complex would have an extra large dumpster provided for all the move-out trash, but it has yet to make an appearance (and move-outs started last month). As it is, we have a big heap of unwanted furniture next to the regular dumpsters.

It's like Christmas in June, though. Hubby and I have found functional DVD players, pristine plastic storage bins, wire racks, shelving units, and tons of books all out there for trashing/recycling. Most perplexing were the storage bins and functional DVD player inside the dumpster. Hubby absolutely loves it when people toss their old textbooks in the recycle bin, because he "rescues" them and then punches in their numbers on Amazon's buyback page to see if they're still selling. He made a good chunk of fun money off of a boxful of medical textbooks someone abandoned. We've also rescued some good children's books from the recycle bin before, and what we don't want to keep we make sure is still in good condition and then deliver to the local "literacy advocacy" community library (you can check out books for as long as you like for free, even if you decide to keep them).

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Heh. My parents live in an out of the way place... and the guy that sold my parents their land left a bunch of crap on it. We're slowly getting rid of it... which means trips to the city dump. FUN! We get weighed and everything... XD Electronics and computers and such get recycled at a place in a city very near me-- a 10 minute drive max. It's nice that we have that in MyState, which... seriously... | | this close to being the worst ever at anything. Granted, I live in the biggest city in MyState... and at least two technology GIANTS (as in global 'household' names) are in MyCity. I've had occasion to drop off (several huge) trunk loads of (former) goods. Luminas: you can have sex in that trunk.
anyway.
So glad you saved that guy's can! XD

[protege]

I think the "no electronics" thing is a national law now, actually.

I'd be surprised, since I always see TVs outside on trash day. TVs, broken lawn mowers, furniture (usually in good shape), and other things that the trash men won't take. What usually happens, is that the scavengers will get it first. The night before, there's a beat-up green van...driving around looking for things they can sell for scrap, or salvage. In fact, that's how I got rid of my old lawn mower. I still can't believe that someone would want a 20-year-old Toro with a cracked engine block

[LadyAndreca]

Since my apartment complex has a private collection company, we can put bulk and electronics by the dumpster and it'll get taken. I have no idea about hazardous or appliance, though I'd assume we could haul it to the town facility ourselves. And if not, the county facility is only 15 minutes from here. The only time I ever had an appliance I wanted to get rid of (a countertop diswasher that I couldn't repair), I offered it up on freecycle and someone took it.

[PepperElf]

I'm glad you saved the man from being chastised by his boss... cos that sucks, being yelled at for legitimately saying "no" and then having the boss come down on you for it.