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I lived in an apartment complex for 5.5 years and because the complex was so large - it had its own trash collecting department - so I never had to "worry" about someone picking through my trash. It just seems weird for someone looking thru my trash. I completely understand that once I put the containers on the street (not my driveway as I was told this morning  ), I relinquish said trash. ...but still feels weird having someone look thru your things.
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...the guidelines apply to office holders past and present. I'm joining my neighborhood association this evening. Henseforth, I shall be called: mr. california rick  This morning I got a call from the new city that I moved to. One the phone was a lady from the SOLID WASTE DIVSION: Lady: Our driver is outside of your home and he says that there is a large cardboard box sticking out of the blue recycling bin. Nothing can be sticking out of the recycling bin. ============= I go downstairs, open the garage door with the automatic garage door opener and there is a solid waste truck in front of my garage and the driver has a cell phone stuck in his ear. I remove the card board box (fomerly holding the bed frame) and he grabs the bin with his automatic jaws and hoists the can up and shakes the contents into his truck. I point to the long box. The driver gestures with a "I dunno" I step; closer to the truck and heave the box hard into the air and it lands into the truck. I gave him a thumbs up!  Our city has the same stupid rule as well. That's why every Sunday evening if I have a large cardboard box that needs to be recycled I cut it in smaller pieces and stuff it in the bin so that it can be properly closed. This is why, when Mr. Scoutgal and I bought our house four years ago, we made sure there were no HOAs for our neighborhood. We are also in unincorporated Riverside County, so we dont have a lot of municipal ordinances, either.
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How do you Ranters feel about people scrounging around the recycle bins to take items that they can turn in themselves for cash before the recycling truck comes around?
I have mixed feelings about it - due to the economy and all - but for the most part, I feel the city should be making the profit.
What do you Ranters think? As long as they don't leave a mess, let them have at it. One person's trash is another person's treasure.
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Yes, it does, it would fee weird to me too. It's also why I shred almost every piece of paper that leaves my house. But it's one thing to pick through for identity theft purposes, and another to pick through to find things I didn't use to the fullest extent.
If someone wants to sell my recyclables, or pick up a broken lamp they can repair and sell -- more power to them.
Of course, I also live in an apartment complex, and we have no recycling program at all...
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One person's trash is another person's treasure. Perfect! I'll let it go! Thanks Scout!!!!!!!! 
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One person's trash is another person's treasure. Perfect! I'll let it go! Thanks Scout!!!!!!!! Glad to help out, Monsieur Rick! 
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No, the guidelines apply to office holders past and present.
Phil Hoskins, moderator This is correct. Scoutgal AdministratorBummer, dude. I tried to warn ya Mellow.....we got all kinda moderators and admins watchin' us now.....
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Anybody wants my garbage is welcome to it. I don't recycle, it seems stupid to send a truck way the hell out in the country to pick up six tincans and a wine bottle every week.
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Lest I be mistaken for a penurious curmudgeon, allow me to expand on this. I regularly deposit items on the curb (such as old computer equipment), full knowing that they will be scrounged, and will probably end up at some poor soul's flea market stand by the following weekend. I also am an active participant in our local FreeCycle program which keeps usable items in circulation, rather than clogging up our already overloaded landfills. However, I still object to scroungers rifling my trash for aluminum cans and waste paper. Those items do have a scrap recycle value, and as long as I'm paying a monthly fee to have my trash hauled, I'd prefer that any money generated from this recycling be used to keep my costs down. The costs I'm paying for trash (and recyclable) pickup keep increasing. If the money recouped from recycling is used to hold down the fees, then I wouldn't be very happy if I found someone cherry-picking through my trash.
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Glad to help out, Monsieur Rick! ...as I've told you before - you're the (slightly) older sister I never had. You always give good advice!! 
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