Is there such a thing as a household tip?
 

We've cut down a huge wooden pergola thing in the garden covered in a 6 foot bush. At the rate we are filling the trash cans it will take us around 6 months to get rid of it all.

In the UK I would have done a few car runs to the tip, what do we do with it here?

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Same thing. Some places will give you a discount if you show your utility bill.

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Have they got a different name?

I'm being lame and can only think to search for household tip and get lots of hints on how much to give my hairdresser:rolleyes:

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our trash people will take pretty much anything if its left out with the trash can.

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Nice idea, but the pile is around 20 foot wide and 10 foot high. We can't bag it either as the branches are too big.

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Hmmm ... I'd try searching for the county dump.

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City or county dump, or transfer station

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Some townships around here have waste disposal centres but we don't. We leave everything at the bottom of the drive and it's collected with the regular trash.

Not sure about something that size. I'd call the town hall or whatever it's called and find out the best way to dispose of it.

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Here the sign says Landfill it belongs to the county and Dh takes car loads of stuff at a time, no charge to residents but you have to show your drivers license to stop all those central valley folk coming up and filling it up seeing they charge down there.

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It's called a transfer station here.

They usually charge you. Or a friend of mine lives in a different town and she gets to go free once a year or something like that. It's weird, and probably depends on what taxes you pay for what and what your particular town does.

Although there is one place not far from us that will take natural stuff like lawn and bush clippings for free.

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:rofl::rofl:
When I was trying to find out I did loads of searches for dumps and got some very unsavoury results :lol:

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Landfill, or transfer station, or dump. Waste refuse, waste removal as well.

note: some cities/counties will have 'leaf collection' days or 'yard waste' days where they will bring by a 'chipper' and run branches and trees through it into wood chips. You might check with your county environmental or parks department for more info.

And...in some counties you can just burn it, provided "open burns" are allowed (varies depending on weather)

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That's an excellent suggestion - they'll know exactly what Nicky should do.

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Yeah....just good luck finding someone to tell you (if it's anything like ours)

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Might be worth checking out the website for your city and having a look around for refuse collect or trash collection or something like that. Our city allows a 'bulky waste' collection once a month where you can put out all sorts of stuff.... we are also allowed 2 visits a month for free to the tip - also called 'transfer stations' here.

Never having been to the tip at all, we'll be there the two free times this month after sorting stuff out for our move...

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There was and still is a radio program on Sat mornings on WDEV Waterbury, VT- WDEV: 550 kHz WDEV-FM: 96.1 MHz W243AT (FM) 96.5 MHz called Music to Go to the Dump By. :lol:

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I just had a great experience with ours. We had a dying tree that needed to be cut down and it was located not far from the street. Our neighbors suggested that it might be on city property and we should call to see, because in that case they would take it down for us. I called and talked to a nice gentleman in the public works department. They had an arborist come out to verify that the tree definitely needed to come down, and it was later cut down, the stump was ground and just yesterday the area was cleared, new seed was planted and straw was spread.

I was pretty impressed! So you never know.

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I live in Calfornia and use Waste Management for trash pickup. We are allowed to call them once a year for a free pickup of up to 8 cubic yards of trash. In my area they do have some restrictions on what they will pick up and will not pick up construction materials. Check with you local service to determine if they have such pickups and what can be picked up.

If you don't have that service in your area, you will have to bring it to the local dump yourself. Call them to find out where your local dump is located.

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Hi N1cky.. I know you want to do the right thing.. wood can be recycled!
Now, they'll charge you to take it. And then when you want the compost they've made out of it, they'll charge you again.

But, it keeps it out of the landfill, which is a good thing (methane).
Your city gov't website should have info on it, or look in the yellow pages for compost/recycling.

We get curbside pickup of small yard debris, but branches that are more than 3" diameter have to be bundled & tied outside the can.. this will be individual to each town of course.

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Get up before dawn on trash day and make it look like all of your neighbors have torn down their pergolas as well.

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Looks like we can do this too

Yep, found on the website they will take it if bundled, so will try that with some of it this week.

:)Best idea so far;)

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I seriously just snorted!!!! :lol::lol::lol::lol:

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We used to listen to it every Sat morning when I was a kid, I checked and sure enough it's STILL on, :lol:

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Cut it up and burn it in your fireplace...:D

If you need a chainsaw or a regular saw...head to your local HOME DEPOT..!!

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Er, its June in California you should know you don't need any extra heat in the house.

We already have a chainsaw from the lovely helpful people at OSH:rolleyes:

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just tryin to be helpful...good point tho..hardly (indoor) fire season:)

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Not to mention, you don't want to burn treated lumber indoors. ewww. :)

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I knew that was coming...thought i might get away without anyone noticing....:)

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I know.. it was good the way I waited and kept you on tenterhooks, huh? :D

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sittin on the edge of my seat i was....:)

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My Dh says he's going to the dump, I just sit sniggering!

Totally OT, NEVER search for mouth organ either, the word is harmonica :rofl:

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Call a tree service and ask them how much it would cost for them to stop by and run the stuff through a chipper. Might cost a little more but could save you a lot of hassle.