Maybe they got to the dump and there was a big sign and chain across the dump saying “Closed on Thanksgiving” and they had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before and with tears in their eyes they drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage. They didn’t find one. ‘Til they came to a side road and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff was another pile of garbage. And they decided that one big pile is better than two little piles and rather than bring that one up they decided to throw theirs down.
Kid, we found your name on an envelope under a half a ton of garbage.
And you do what everyone else does, drop it off at the gate and leave cash.
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Increases the cost to the community many times, but it’s free for one person
Ah, the old Coon Hill Rd. special. Grew up near a wooded country road that was full of trash like this. People apparently came from all around the township to dump their trash and furniture up and down this road, and the county never bothered to clean it up. My family was never down with that, but my dad used to catch possums in his livetraps and relocate them on this exact road. I guess he didn’t know how beneficial it was to have possums around. Coon Hill may have been lined with trash, but it was likely 100% tick free.
I had to do a school project once where we took disposal cameras and snapped photos of things that we found beautiful, and things we found ugly. I knocked out almost all of the ugly ones just on Coon Hill, but I did snap a few beautiful ones off the beaten path a bit. It was in the dead of winter and mostly snow and rotting vegetation, but beautiful enough at the right time of day. There was a duality down Coon Hill.
I swear I wasn’t a redneck, but it sure sounds like it.
Thank you for writing this. You painted the scene very well I can tell you learned a lot from your art teachers!
Thanks! Very kind of you to say.
You are a skilled writer fr. Excellent prose.
Thank you! Genuinely, that means a lot to hear. I’ve never heard anyone compliment my prose, but it’s something I value a lot in other literature, and have a hard time getting into novels that are lacking it.
I’ve been wanting/trying to write a fiction book for years, but I have a horrible habit of knocking out a few pages and then getting into my own head and picking apart my work. I’ll end up reworking it sentence by sentence until I hate whatever’s left. Your nice comment makes me want to try again. All the best to you!
As the squeeze continues, the trash dumps will increase. It costs money to dump trash appropriately. Out of all the utilities, trash pickup will likely be sacrificed first. This isn’t an endorsement.
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Littering really pisses me off. I’ve seen kids throw trash on the ground when a trash can was 5 ft away. Infuriating.
You are legally allowed to beat them with the trash.
You are legally
allowedobligated to beat them with the trash.FTFY
Merci.
I balk at the idea of paying to dump your junk in a landfill site. I pay myself but that silly system only leads to broke people having to dump elsewhere.
Everything that costs money (evermore, at that) will see people decline to pay in favour of saving the cost. This shouldn’t cost the public money to do, it should be taken care of by the county.
I think it’s true that not every landfill charges
Edit: op said they only charge for specific items at that location so it probably would’ve been free
We use a regional landfill and they charge your hometown. It’s only for hazardous waste so the town get pissed if you waste their money with insufficient items or something that can go in trash or recycling
But I still have old style fluorescent tubes in my basement. What do I do as they burn out and are replaced by LED? Because of mercury, trash won’t take them. However I’ll never have enough to make up for the $50 my town is charged. Plus the last thing I want to do is accumulate old tubes that will eventually get broken and contaminate my house
you should coordinate with your neighbors to consolidate the neighborhood output, which then can justify the town charge.
I’ve thought of that, and there already are versions of that - I’m pretty sure Scouts organizes one. However the result is me accumulating dead fluorescent tubes, oil based paint and insecticide. Then I forget about it and it may be years of accumulated hazards. I need to change that result
In truth at least here Most of that type of dumping comes from the landfill being closed. Lazy people in general don’t know the schedule of a facility and as a result there are game cameras on most dumping spots near the local landfill. Every now and then they catch someone in the act and make a big production number in the prosecution. With some getting community service picking up trash on the side of the road.
Yea but dumping it there is free.
What you do when no one is looking is your true character.
Wouldn’t law enforcement be able to find a couple of receipts or something that could indicate who it was that threw all this away? It’d be so satisfying to issue a massive fine to the assholes who did this.
That would involve actual police work. They don’t even process rape kits brought to them.
“Someone stole my trash”
^ Right here. Company I worked at had trash dropped in the back of one our service vehicles (as well as some straight up vandalism), had lots of personally identifying info and the culprit had already made themselves well known to our staff a couple weeks prior. Guy told the police the trash was stolen and nothing further ever happened with it.
If. Old bottles, pizza boxes, etc aren’t going to identify you.
So they’re lazy and stupid.
Probably didn’t want to pay / put effort into sorting it. Sad.
Carefully check for labels with name and address and then contact the authorities.
