Making more frequent, smaller trips might make it less of a pain? Maybe stop by the dumpster if it's on the way to/from a daily route you need to take?
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Yeah, I would just make it a habit to always leave the home with a trash bag and drop it on the way to wherever I'm heading. Using large trashbags makes you wait until the bag is full. Buy those small 13 gallon (or smaller) bags. I use all my grocery bags as mini trash bags hung on cupboard doors. Makes it easier.
Is the dumpster within line of sight? If so, zip line.
Or zip line to your trunk and then drive it to the dumpster. Afraid to say I have in fact done this... Long rope one end tied to balcony support and the other on the support arm for the trunk then tied bags together in pairs and sent them down riding a wash cloth (i was worried friction would tear through the bags...). Then walk down and load it in the trunk, untie the car and drove it to the dumpsters like 1/4 mile away.
I did it in the middle of the night, less witnesses.
If not? Trebuchet.
Trebuchet! Trebuchet! Trebuchet!
There's a guy that throws his trash out the window on TikTok. If it makes it in the can it's a good week and if he misses it's a bad week. Calls it the garboscope. My point here is that you can at least skip the stairs
What does "the dumpster is a car's drive away" mean?
The dumpster is so far away that they recommend driving a car instead of walking.
That's the obvious interpretation.
If it is the correct interpretation, in what country is this legal? I'd be getting the tenants together to take the landlord(s) to court, if that is the correct interpretation and it is a country with laws about this sort of thing. But I don't know if it is the correct interpretation or what country we're talking about.
The US has very anti-tenant leanings in the judiciary, and bureaucracy overall.
So does every capitalist country. It's very hard to imagine it being legal to rent an apartment without providing trash disposal.
Are we talking an actual car's drive, or a USians idea of a distance that cannot be walked?
Yes. Europeans will walk 3 miles for a coffee, but consider 3 hours a long drive. Americans will drive 100 ft to take out trash, but will drive for 12 hours straight to leave their state.
Likely the latter.
The dumpster is too far to walk to when carrying garbage bags, I'd guess.
You can get a cart that's more along the lines of a hand truck - more vertically shaped. They're often folding too, so you don't have to take up toouch space. A regular hand truck would work too if that's all that's available by taking the whole trash bin rather than just loose bags
To add to the other comments: try to reduce how much stuff you generate that needs to be thrown in the dumpster. Of course, from the sounds of things, juggling a small bag of trash plus a bin of paper, a bin of plastic, a bin of glass and a bin of all other recyclables would be even more of a headache. Maybe start up a program with the other tenants who must be having the same issues?
its good exercise, you could get a shopping cart thing and use it for the trash bags.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Why is the dumpster so far? Don't every building have to have a place for trash? If not can't you just talk to the apartment union to get one? That's a pretty standard thing for apartment unions.
"The apartment union" wtf? Lmao
How do you decide to do renovations or hire cleaning for the general purpose areas in apartments without one?
You don't. That's wholly at the discretion of whatever investment firm owns your apartment complex. I've never lived in an apartment that worked any other way.
Oh wow, that sucks. I'm pretty sure an apartment union is a requirement here and I have never had a different experience either. Like we have a general trash area in front of the apartment building, like 4 trashcans for different kind of trash with a tiny building around it that's maintained by the union and the trash there gets emptied once a week.
I guess it's good to say where you are if asking for advice.
They might be under the impression that people are buying these apartments instead of renting them, and then there’s some sort of HOA that covers those things.
It doesn't matter if you buy or rent. At least here you always have an apartment union that all residents are a part of, it's required. Like if you want a water filter installed to the general water intake or want a bike rack in front of the building you ask the union and they bring it up during a meeting so if the budget allows for it they'll put it on a vote. Like how else would you get like a bike rack or a garden for your building?
Like how else would you get like a bike rack or a garden for your building?
You ask the owner, and then accept it will never happen.
Out of curiosity: what is a “car’s drive away” according to fellow Americans? I mean how many meters would that be?
In my experience, about five or six parking meters.
Find a box with the Amazon logo on it. Put your trash in the box. Seal it up professionally. Leave it outside your door. It will be gone the next day.
I'm trying to imagine how much garbage you're producing for it to be a gigantic pain in the ass.
The best solution seems to be to reduce your waste or exercise a bit.
Stop buying trash. No Really, use reusable bags, insulated grocery bags, silicon bags. https://www.amazon.com/Stasher-Bag-Leakproof-Dishwasher-Safe-Eco-friendly/dp/B087XBR564 https://www.amazon.com/BAGHOME-Insulated-Shopping-Grocery-Cooler/dp/B06XJNKMGW https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Organic-Cotton-Produce-Bags/dp/B07Z2SPLMT/
Get a compost bucket for food waste rather than tossing it in the trash. Even if you dont compost it, separating food waste from trash means you can bring just the bucket to the dumpster when needed and it wont stink up a half full garbage bag.
If you buy things that come in packaging ask for scissors or a knife at checkout and cut off the packaging before leaving a store.
Dont order shit online, again seriously if you dont buy a bunch of junk from Amazon (even though I linked it) you wont have all that packaging that needs to be trashed/recycled.
If your not buying trash/packaging, and not bringing it home then you wont have to take out that same trash.
Gee, what a totally realistic suggestion
Find someone that lives in the complex that will be your trash valet for a small fee. Or post a listing on Craigslist for hiring your own personal trash valet.
Or start a small business and be the trash valet for your complex and make money off your chore.
Step 1: get a box
Step 2: cut a whole in that box
Step 3: put your junk in that box
Step 4:
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Step 6: after fermentation process is complete,…
Can you move? Was this not disclosed before you moved in?
Unethical solution: throw it out your window.
Ethical solution: suggest a maid service to the office that add be added to your rent a la carte