the answer is: Copy the neighbors.
Always copy the neighbors.
We have two trash services in competition. 🤷🏻 Wasteful, I know, but the competition keeps prices down and service up. Never had such solid trash service. :)
I was house sitting once and tried this… turns out the garbage system in that area is privatized and they all have different garbage days. Which is fucking insane imo.
Copy the binfluencer.
Someone has to be the neighbor everyone copies.
My city provides a handy ics file that we can import.
Our city offers email reminders the day before pickup, showing what items will be picked up that week.
Nice try. You will not geolocate me based on my bin day
You’re a Wednesday bin day guy I can tell.
Metadata kills!
Double it and give to neighbor
“The weatherman said the word “snow” so now we won’t be picking up this week. You’ll have to wait until next week. Sorry, not sorry. Also, your quarterly payment is due and no, we’re not going to give you a discount for the pickup that we missed.” --Republic Sanitation
I just get notified by the smart home that the bin should be out (but isn’t yet). Nu clue what is on what days
Doesn’t matter, I live in an ‘apartment’, there’s a dumpster.
… you people all have houses?
Must be old, or lucky.
Tuesday morning so put out on Monday night.
If we’re talking holiday schedule I give up and just go to the website and look at the calendar. It’s accurate!
You must live where there are few wild animals. Where I live that’s a great way to have your trash strewn all across the road by morning.
I live in NJ. So while there are absolutely animals that would do that, just not here in this specific area. Deer don’t really do that much. And the rabbits are a bit small for it. They just both eat gardens.
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That’s funny. Where I am the coons, crows, and if you’re mountainous enough or at the edge of town enough, then the bears will all tear your garbage apart. My neighbours always put their garbage out the night before and then at the same time I’m putting my garbage out in the morning they’re out shoveling it back into their bins because the animals got it. Every time. It baffles me that they don’t change their habits
Just look at the phase of the moon, like a normal dog-person.
How can you forget its the same day every week. The only disruption is when there is a public holiday that week binday moves one day later.
Now knowing if its recycling that week, thats wizardry and I just go based off how full my recycling bin is or if my neighbours have theres out.
there are places that don’t follow a weekly schedule but rather another number of days, presumably because it’s considered a balance of lower cost and frequent enough pickup
I’m happy with my alternating garbage/cardboard and plastics/glass weeks, with the green bin picked up every week, though. seems like a perfect schedule — just enough time to get a bin of recycling worth putting out, and with the green bin coming weekly, I sometimes struggle to even get enough garbage to bother tying the bag up and putting it out
Dude, we are species that went from arguing about who does the dishes to arguing about who fills the dishwasher… We are not paying attention to bin day… lol.
Bin day is the highlight of my week so maybe I pay an abnormal amount of attention to it.
I just have a fortnightly recurring entry in my calendar for the recycling bin.
Yestermorrow
Live in an apartment: you don’t have to think about it.
Though I can’t say how it works everywhere, but here in Sweden all apartment buildings have trash rooms or separate “houses” with bins for everything (food waste, plastics, metal, glass etc). And many have areas of those rooms, or separate rooms, for leaving stuff that isn’t broken so others can take what’s there. About half my furniture, electronics and other random stuff are from those. I often check mine and the one where my mom lives and have a friend group chat for sharing what we find and don’t want ourselves. It’s also pretty common to collect stuff there and transport it to places where it’s given to people in need, stuff like clothing, entertainment (books, board games, dvds etc.), kitchen ware and so on.
