• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    In the USA, you usually pay for garbage collection services which are private companies that provide you trash and recycling bins and they pick them up from your house on a regular schedule, usually once or twice a week. If you live in a rural area, really rural, you might need to handle your own garbage. In these cases you either haul it in your truck to a dump where you either pay a flat rate to dump, or pay by the pound (they weigh your car before and after), or some places allow you burn trash if you’re really in the middle of nowhere.

    Sometimes payment for these services is included in rent, HOA fees, or sometimes you hire/pay seperately.

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      Sometimes payment for these services is included in rent, HOA fees, or sometimes you hire/pay seperately.

      Or included in property tax, because (as a matter of public health) they really don’t want anybody to be able to avoid paying it.

      In my city, it’s a flat fee per residence (as opposed to scaling with the millage rate), so it’s broken out on a separate line-item. It’s a little over $500/year.

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      That’s weird. Not sure where you are. Where I live the city just adds it to the utility bill (trash, sewer, and water). That sounds like it’s probably expensive. Fuck that.

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      Ohh ok ok. Yeah, very different from Greece. Probably because Greece isn’t that much of a capitalistic country I think🤷. We just have some big trash cans (around 1m³ of volume) every like 50meters (±40meters) in residential areas and trucks pick up the garbage.

      They are by the streets/in indetations of the pavement (I’ve seen in other european countries, that they have those trash cans inside an apartment complex instead and other stuff. We had hard time figuring out where to throw our trash in Hungary).

      Though people doesnt care very much of what they dispose of and frequnetly you can see stuff like big carboards and abandoned furniture near those trash cans which are rarely collected (many times you have to call the appropriate service of the municipalty).

      We also have those small bins (around 50liters) on the pavement scattered around in the cities where you can throw various small garbage.

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        Some municipalities in the US may also have public trash collection similar to what you describe. It varies a lot from place to place.

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      Allow is a stretch, back in the rural part of the US I grew up in we burned our trash since there was no trash company that serviced within 50 miles of us. No one cares for the environmental or health impacts of it when there no other realistic option