Here on the island where I live, it costs $300+/tonne to dump. When I take my stuff off island (to the same place it ends up when I dump it here) it costs me $85/tonne. They charge to drop off recycling now tooMikey wrote:Harley wrote:The only option for me now is to take it to the tip. That tipping fees are $65.00Bill Fitzmaurice wrote:Make a burn pit, burn it, use the ashes as garden fertilizer.By asking people to PAY to dump, they're encouraging people to take their stuff out into the wilderness to dump it. That's just plain stooopid.Harley wrote:Golly gosh, I'd be arrested for burning that stuff in my section
Here in Pahrump, there's no charge for residents to take stuff to the dump, yet there are still a lot of people who are too lazy, or don't want to spend the gas money to go to the dump, so they dump it in the desert. It really sucks when I'm way out in the middle of nowhere, riding my horse and enjoying nature, and I come upon a truckload of someone's ignorantly discarded furniture, appliances, car parts, trash, etc. Makes me wanna leave THEM out in the desert!

Technically it is illegal for me to take the garbage out of county (off island) to dump it, but I talked to the mainland dump and they said they are aware of our dump situation and the higher authorities are OK with it.
Gotta love the beuracracy



Benj