Garbage Cans

whatdidyousay! said:
The wood frame holders sound like a good idea! I will tell my daughter!
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She just built it with 2X4s.. made basically a stand to hold the cans inside.

I have also seen people tie their cans together. Making it almost impossible for animals to dump the cans.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I live in a condo and we do not use trash cans. The trash is kept in the basement till trash day. It would get really smelly having dog poop sitting around the whole week! This is a new rule for this park . I bet people will just leave the dog poop on the ground! They're will not want it in their fancy cars! I think this new rule will back fire , and we'll end up having poop all over the park! I will really be watching were I step now! YUCKY !
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If the poop is put in a poop bag and sealed up properly in a ziploc bag, then there should be no smell as it is sealed. If there is a smell it means the bags were not sealed properly or there is a hole in the bag.

As for people leaving their dogs poop everywhere and not picking it up if you can catch them doing it and get it on film and turn it in to the PD, they will send PD out to watch the area and they will start fining those who are not cleaning up after themselves. All it takes is one time and they'll learn to clean up after themselves. This is something people should have learned as children. Not only do you have to pick up after yourself, you also have to pick up after your young children as well as your pets.
 
Dixie said:
If the poop is put in a poop bag and sealed up properly in a ziploc bag, then there should be no smell as it is sealed. If there is a smell it means the bags were not sealed properly or there is a hole in the bag.

As for people leaving their dogs poop everywhere and not picking it up if you can catch them doing it and get it on film and turn it in to the PD, they will send PD out to watch the area and they will start fining those who are not cleaning up after themselves. All it takes is one time and they'll learn to clean up after themselves. This is something people should have learned as children. Not only do you have to pick up after yourself, you also have to pick up after your young children as well as your pets.
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reasons why NOT to use ziploc bag - expensive and NOT biodegradable

use the DOGGIE POOP BAG - the one that's designed for POOP because it's VERY cheap and it's biodegradable. You can flush it down the toilet as well. Dixie - you're right. They do not seal it properly. C'mon... it's not that hard to make a knot with poop bag. and also I've seen some New Yorkers picking it up with some tissue and then throw it out into garbage can.... with open top. EEEEWWWWWW!!! Doggie Poop Bag is available at ANY store at pet section.

see pix below - it's the most common Doggie Poop Bag that you can attach to your leash handle

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Plastic is not an odor shield. Poop, of any kind has a way of seeping its smell through plastic.
 
In Milwaukee where I grew up the trash cans are provided to us by the city - they started providing them to us in the late 1980s or the very early 1990s (from what I can remember as a kid), they're very big green plastic trash cans with lids and they are on wheels. They have serial numbers on them and says "Property of Milwaukee" on them.

It seems that San Antonio is not doing this, so I was a bit surprised to be seeing old metal cans from the 1980s still existing here in the neighborhoods when I moved here from Minnesota 3 years ago.
 
I'm surprised that anyone is allowed to put out trash bags for pick up. Our trash collectors will only pick up trash that is in the large green plastic cans with attached covers. If any trash is outside the cans, they will not pick it up. All trash must be inside the green cans only.

We have HOA, City Code Enforcers, and the trash company itself that will notify the resident to put their trash into a can.
 
Reba said:
I'm surprised that anyone is allowed to put out trash bags for pick up. Our trash collectors will only pick up trash that is in the large green plastic cans with attached covers. If any trash is outside the cans, they will not pick it up. All trash must be inside the green cans only.

We have HOA, City Code Enforcers, and the trash company itself that will notify the resident to put their trash into a can.
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It depends on the city.

When I was in Rochester, we had to have trash in green trash cans. Here in Texas, we just put it out at the curb in trash bags. As long as they're big and not a bunch of small tiny bags, it's fine. If it's really heavy, then we have to call the city and arrange a special pick-up where they use a truck with a claw crane that picks up the trash. For instance, an old water heater. :)
 
We can leave bags out of the garbage cans. The garbage man will pick it up.

Believe me since I have moved. I had tons of boxes and garbages. I used the boxes for garbage. They said as long as the garbage is in some sort of containers and not spread out. They will pick it up.
 
VamPyroX said:
It depends on the city.

When I was in Rochester, we had to have trash in green trash cans. Here in Texas, we just put it out at the curb in trash bags. As long as they're big and not a bunch of small tiny bags, it's fine. If it's really heavy, then we have to call the city and arrange a special pick-up where they use a truck with a claw crane that picks up the trash. For instance, an old water heater. :)
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Around here in San Antonio no one really cares what you put out on the curb...you can throw out trash bags, couches, TVs, anything, what have you. They will pick it up. No one really cares. We are even told to put out dead animals out on the curb if we find any dead animal carcasses. I know, because about 6 months ago I found a dead cat outside by the fence near my apartment building (poor cat!) and I called animal control. They said that they don't pick up dead animals but that we can move the dead animal out on the curb for the garbage truck people to pick it up. I refused to touch the dead animal (ew!) so I got my landlady to do it (it is on property so she is required to do that - animal control told me that). The next day it was gone, thank goodness because I can't keep looking at the poor dead cat, I felt so sorry for the cat. I have also seen huge piles of trash of all kinds of things that's higher than me (I'm 5'2) and is just as big as a car, and the garbage truck people still picks it up.
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
Around here in San Antonio no one really cares what you put out on the curb...you can throw out trash bags, couches, TVs, anything, what have you. They will pick it up. No one really cares. We are even told to put out dead animals out on the curb if we find any dead animal carcasses. I know, because about 6 months ago I found a dead cat outside by the fence near my apartment building (poor cat!) and I called animal control. They said that they don't pick up dead animals but that we can move the dead animal out on the curb for the garbage truck people to pick it up. I refused to touch the dead animal (ew!) so I got my landlady to do it (it is on property so she is required to do that - animal control told me that). The next day it was gone, thank goodness because I can't keep looking at the poor dead cat, I felt so sorry for the cat. I have also seen huge piles of trash of all kinds of things that's higher than me (I'm 5'2) and is just as big as a car, and the garbage truck people still picks it up.
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EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW about dead animal thing.
 
How disrespectful, shame on them. Reminds me of a new neighbor we got on the street a couple summers ago. she was a lady from the kids elementary school, always well dressed and snotty. she got a puppy and used to walk him on the sidewalk and let him poo wherever he needed to and not clean it up. I watched her kick poo onto the road a couple of times and found poo in my flowerbed which I am pretty sure came from her dog as well. finally after a couple of weeks of this I left her a not in the mailbox and a package of doggy bags.....she did get the hint. I despise people like this!
 
Take digital photos and send to the city via the complaint division. They have a phone number, but better yet, they have an online form you can use. I have even added the link for you: 630-CITY
 
I'm surprised that places still allow loose trash and bags. Don't they get torn up and animals get into the trash?

Our garbage truck is automated with a big arm that picks up the cans and empties them. There is only a driver, no garbage men.

We can put our cans out to the curb the night before pick up, and we have to put them in our back yard before dark. Trash pick up is once a week, and recycling pick up is a different day. Lawn debris is also picked up once a week.
 
Jiro - reread my post about the poop bags and ziploc bags.

For those concerned with the odor they should use the poop bag in conjunction with a ziploc bag and seal it properly.
 
Now that I have moved into the city limits.

Who do I call for the recycle bins? I have not seen one recycle bin in this subdivision. :shock:
 
Any updates, rockin'robin? Have things been better for you or still the same? Have you reported your neighbor to the city?
 
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