Comment on Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system?

chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s big and metal there’s a scrapyard that will, at the very least, take it off your hands for free. Free metal is free metal. Getting the big metal thing to the scrapyard is another story.

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• Drusas@kbin.run ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goddamn. It cost like thirty bucks to throw out one of those items here (not construction debris--that's too big/heavy).

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s so much NIMBY about landfills they’re rare and very far apart.

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    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean to be fair having a landfill around would be one of the only things I’d be a NIMBY about.

      I’d even accept a nuclear reactor over a landfill.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Both are very safe? I don’t understand

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s unfortunate that waste disposal is one of those things that gets cut back (see, it doesn’t work. Let’s save money). I was pleasantly surprised by my town having more traditional service where they’ll pick up anything. For something big, like furniture, they want you to call ahead so they can send a flatbed, but they’ll take just about anything.

  Meanwhile, my ex a couple towns over, has to pay per bag and you’re on your own for anything big

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