People are really shitty sometimes. Crap like this is a constant problem in rural areas. WHY do assholes in suburbia bring their garbage to the country to dump on the side of the road? You see everything you can think of dumped!! RVs, furniture, household garbage, tires…it’s despicable. 🤬🤬🤬
These are two different streets, different years but a common sight out here. 🖕🏻#DontDoThis
@NorCalCherylLyn I hate seeing this kind of thing!
@Tattoomonkey29 it happens so often it’s shocking.
@NorCalCherylLyn Yeah , every now and then my county has free days for large items but if they were consistent it would be much better!
@Tattoomonkey29 @NorCalCherylLyn As much as I hate living here, we get to throw away one large item a week for free. Nothing in Lansing was free, you had to buy a $35-40 sticker to get a large item picked up and those had restrictions on them. The only restriction I’ve run across here is mattresses and box springs have to be securely wrapped in plastic.
Took me a couple years to find this out about here because I’m so used to not putting large items out for pick up.
@cjcrew @Tattoomonkey29 we need to find a metal scrapper to reduce our large item disposal costs. Daughter and sil have like 3 washers to get rid of. Rural folks store their trash on their property, urban/suburban people are the dumpers out here.
@cjcrew @Tattoomonkey29 I’ve never understood making your trash a neighborhood or a law enforcement problem.
@NorCalCherylLyn @Tattoomonkey29 The problem is disposing of large items is expensive, for both the municipality and the residents. This was a student/poor working class area and most people couldn’t afford the fees. If you left it in your yard the city would fine you, which was more expensive than a tag would have cost, so if you couldn’t afford the tag you definitely couldn’t afford the fine. Dumping it becomes the only option many could afford.
@cjcrew @Tattoomonkey29 it should be more civically minded. I get the being unable to afford it! It shouldn’t be cost prohibitive.
@NorCalCherylLyn @Tattoomonkey29 It shouldn’t be cost prohibitive and it shouldn’t be information you have to hunt down. However, if I’d have called and asked they may have been forthcoming with this information, I don’t know since I didn’t call. I get confused trying to figure out most organizations phone systems.
@NorCalCherylLyn @Tattoomonkey29 Lansing did have a program for people who couldn’t afford the stickers but I’m not sure most knew that was available. I didn’t learn about it until a year or so before I moved and I lived in that house for 20+ years so I doubt most know about it. Not many would have bothered to inquire and they didn’t have it in a prominent position on their website. I’m not sure how I discovered it but I’m sure I found it while looking for something else out there.
@cjcrew @Tattoomonkey29 I think they hide that info on purpose so it so t get used effectively. 🤦🏻♀️
@NorCalCherylLyn @Tattoomonkey29 They don’t want to spend the money is my guess. They’d rather use it toward something else and leave us to deal with the problem of disposal.
@NorCalCherylLyn @Tattoomonkey29 I’m noticing most areas no longer have junk yards or dumps for you to take that stuff to either. There was a scrap metal yard on the north end of the city but it cost to take them there so it would have been easier and not much more to just buy a sticker.
@cjcrew @Tattoomonkey29 a scrap yard helps but there is so much you can’t take to them.
@NorCalCherylLyn @Tattoomonkey29 When I lived I Lansing my neighborhood was right off the intersection of two fairly major highways, but the neighborhood was mostly residential with a couple gas stations and small businesses clustered around the on/off ramps (with MSU just down the street). It wasn’t unusual to see large appliances tossed out along one of the side streets, or furniture. We were the “worthless” area where many tossed their old couches or dryers. Residents also did this as well.