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Garbage bill went up again!
I just came to Ecomodder to post about it. Doing a search for "garbage", I found this old post and that I was complaining about the same thing almost exactly one year ago!
We pay in advance for garbage pickup, every four months. My current bill is $94.51 for Jan to the end of April.
That includes a $9.88 for "Fuel/Enviromental Fees", which I think means they are just charging us for how expensive gas was last summer!
That's over $23 a month! Seeing as how we compost, we make about one 13 gallon bag of garbage a week. We do go through a fair amount of recyclables - can's, bottles, junk mail, etc.
Has anyone intentionally "car-pooled" their trash with a neighbor, taken it to an alternative location, etc, to save on the cost?
(No, I am NOT advocating "dumping", which is illegal)
Just looking for practical, out-of-the-box ideas for saving some money.
Almost $25 a month for one trash-can seems like a lot!
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