Coffee anyone ?

[Bruce]

Trash box is full.... wondering... maybe we will just stuff as much as we can into the jeep... hope the smell doesn't linger since it is winter.

We have to separate out recyclables and compostables from the trash so no smell in the trash. We are supposed to put used paper towels and tissues! in the compost bin. Nasty mold grows in there so the only thing I put in there now is things like avocado seeds and bones .... after the chickens get done with them. Anything that will compost at home go into the compost bins in the yard and greasy paper towels go into the wood stove.

My DH is a tractor mechanic

I don't suppose he'd like a nice winter vacation in Alaska.

 

[Alaskan]

We have to separate out recyclables and compostables from the trash so no smell in the trash. We are supposed to put used paper towels and tissues! in the compost bin. Nasty mold grows in there so the only thing I put in there now is things like avocado seeds and bones .... after the chickens get done with them. Anything that will compost at home go into the compost bins in the yard and greasy paper towels go into the wood stove.

Most recyclables have to be shipped to Washington state...no joke....

Metal, even with the shipping, makes a few cents a container, so that is encouraged...

We do try to be super careful about toxic stuff...batteries and oil... actually, I am not sure what they do with that stuff....

But most everything is landfill...


Which is why they encourage scrounging....

However, "household" trash goes in a separate no scrounging zone...

Construction trash has its own spot....

There is a "put household scrounge worthy stuff here" spot.

 

[Bruce]

I bet you can find some pretty decent dimensional lumber for smaller projects in there!

 

[thistlebloom]

I wish we had a scrounge section. It kills me to see some of the perfectly good stuff that ends up at the dump. There is a wood recycling section for pallets and lumber, tree limbs and brush. They have a gigantic grinder machine that reduces it all to small chips. I have been known to back up to the pile in a spot that has some promising looking wood, and casually load plywood back into my truck when I have pulled out my work related brushy debris. They have No Scavenging signs all over and video surveillance, but so far no lights and sirens have followed me out the gate.

 

[Alaskan]

Actually knew someone that built a really nice 2 bedroom cabin 100% from the dump.

Great stuff in there.

I bet you can find some pretty decent dimensional lumber for smaller projects in there!

 

[Alaskan]

I wish we had a scrounge section. It kills me to see some of the perfectly good stuff that ends up at the dump. There is a wood recycling section for pallets and lumber, tree limbs and brush. They have a gigantic grinder machine that reduces it all to small chips. I have been known to back up to the pile in a spot that has some promising looking wood, and casually load plywood back into my truck when I have pulled out my work related brushy debris. They have No Scavenging signs all over and video surveillance, but so far no lights and sirens have followed me out the gate.

Ack! That would drive me crazy!!!

I am now banned from doing dump runs... the kids or spouse have to go...

Because usually I would come back with more than I hauled away.

 

[messybun]

Our dump is similar, no scrounging allowed! You just have to wait for the right person to be on duty lol. It’s amazing what people throw out! Especially after hurricanes; metal sheets, wood, play house roofs, play houses, bent fence panels. They should totally allow us to reclaim stuff! Maybe next time I just “won’t ask”. In oyster season they even have a huge container of shucked oyster shells, talk about great chicken coop flooring or even driveways, but they sell that to the local quarries usually.

 

[Alaskan]

Our dump is similar, no scrounging allowed! You just have to wait for the right person to be on duty lol. It’s amazing what people throw out! Especially after hurricanes; metal sheets, wood, play house roofs, play houses, bent fence panels. They should totally allow us to reclaim stuff! Maybe next time I just “won’t ask”. In oyster season they even have a huge container of shucked oyster shells, talk about great chicken coop flooring or even driveways, but they sell that to the local quarries usually.

See? You understand! How in the world could I pass up stuff like that!!!

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
No free dumps around here, you have to pay to get rid of stuff, burn it or some bury it. The county we used to live in had a public place where you could take brush and such, they chipped it up and anyone was free to load up the chips for whatever use. It was nice.
Still no kits. Sold a bunny yesterday, another one was supposed to be picked up today but looking at other transports now...the transportation was using cardboard boxes. They had too far to go in a box. if a local person comes with a box I am ok with it. But this was a "professional " transport. And a 3 to 4 day trip. glad the buyer found out before they got here.... but ugh.
Finally got Jocelyn's pony measured for a sheet. We don't blanket often but I like to have them available, and Schneiders has a very good sale right now. We'll see what he thinks about it. Co op and off to get dog food.

 

[Mini Horses]

We have localized dumps, no scrounge allowed. Shame really as many times --- well, ones trash, another's treasure! We need to repurpose. Sometimes the tenders look the other way. I sure understand reclaiming.

Watched the inauguration and the poet was AMAZING!

Cool start here -- thin ice on troughs but, heading to low 50s. I'll take it happily.