• the_crotch
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    13 days ago

    I had some Karen type yell at me for doing this. So I pointed at the side of the can, which did not in fact say her name, but instead said Borough of Naugatuck, and reminded her that as a resident of Naugatuck I had as much of a right to its garbage bins as she did.

    People downvoting this probably also get pissy if you park in the street in front of their house. ITS EVERYBODY’S STREET YOU SCHMUCK

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      Trash disposal isn’t free, yea the dog poop is probably a negligent amount, but most people have to explicitly pay for trash disposal, and so filling up other people’s trash cans can either cause an additional financial burden on them, or mean that they can’t effectively dispose of all of their trash.

      It looks like in your case, each unit gets a can assigned to it, and service fees and replacements cost the individual directly, additionally, there are fines for trash violations, so having other people put unknown trash in your bins can result in a direct financial burden. I think it’s pretty reasonable to be relatively protective over your trash bin if you are the one that has to pay for service, replacements, and fees.

      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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        13 days ago

        My trash pickup is municipal. Even if it wasn’t I’d rather just take an extra kilo of trash than have it in the street.

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        Trash pickup is paid for by regular local taxes in Naugatuck Connecticut. The town gives each household a trash bin and a recycling bin with instructions to fill them and leave them by the curb on a specific day. Nobody weighs them. The bins say ‘Borough of Naugatuck’ on them, because the town owns them, which makes them fair game.

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      I don’t know how trash disposal works wherever Naugatuck is, but it is usually a paid service. It makes no difference whatsoever which party owns the container serving that household.

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        It is not a paid service in Naugatuck. It’s a municipal service. That’s the case in most of Connecticut.