Bizarre concept for us backward hillbillies. We choose from several companies in the area and pay them directly. There’s even one company that supplies trash bags at a set price which means you’re only paying for when they pick up the trash. The service is like a prepaid phone.
Heck, we don’t even have trash pick-up out here. We have to drop it off at dump stations ourselves.
“Bizarre concept for us backward hillbillies.”
Well, up until 1980, we burned most of our trash down at my Grand-Mother’s farm, and composted everything else.
When I lived in the city (Arlington, Texas), there was a garbage charge on our monthly water bill.
And now that I finally got back to the country, we burn the paper/cardboard stuff and contracted with a local garbage company to pick up everything else.
Who would have EVER thought that you had to pay someone to handle your own trash?!?! /s