"Wilmington Police were able to locate the town on Evergreen Drive in their town and noted it had heavy front-end damage." *Giggles*

Free minichiello!

What is a Class D substance?

If the Town of Tewksbury didn't limit us on 1 trash barrel and then charge us $5 for a little orange sticker for overflow bags then people would dump illegally in town. Oh thats right we can buy a second barrel for around $225 a year. Ya because most average residents have an extra $225 laying around just for trash. And before the haters start making comments I do not know the person who dumped illegally I am just stating my point.

There is no excuse for breaking the law.
There are various legal ways to get rid of extra trash.
I do not want to pay extra taxes to subsidize people who generate too much trash.
Take responibility for your own trash.

The trash situation really bugs me. Not only do kids like to steal the tags off of overflow bags (and then they don't get picked up), you have to go to town hall to get them. Other nearby communities sell specific bags (which can't be stolen, unless someone is going to rip it and dump out the trash), and you can buy them at the local grocery store. They make things so difficult here.

But who are they to say how much trash is too much? And what about, say, Christmas? I'd venture to guess that the majority of the town has more trash on the trash day after Christmas than usual. Especially this year, seeing that Christmas falls right at the end of the trash week. Wouldn't it be a nice "present" to allow for this once a year?

If you recycle everything that can be recycled, odds are your trash barrel will rarely be full. You can recycle wrapping paper (not the foil kind, though) and gift boxes after Christmas. We bought a cheap plastic garbage can at Home Depot and use that along with the town issued recycling bin. Our blue trash barrel is rarely filled to the top and I don't think we've ever had an overflow issue.

This discussion is not about liberals or conservatives.

The town a couple years ago while we were looking to decrease costs & spending, secured a trash program which has saved the town and reduced the amount of trash. Not only that but the increase in recycling has saved us money.

As for the sewer, the residents of this town voted to spend $100M+ to put in a sewer system in 8 years. The problem is not the sewer, the problem was the plan to implement it and not fund it. Complaining about it doesn't change the things that have happened in our past. Unless you have a new solution that hasn't been considered.

You have a choice how much trash you have. My family of four is able to use one barrel every week to put our trash in. If we want to do more, than we can CHOOSE to pay for it.

Also at Christmas time they pick up extra trash. Just like they do with leaves and just like you can do with Large trash pickup. Many options out there.

A family of 6 - one blue bin and two trash barrels used for recycling. The only time my blue barrel is over full is if I missed the pickup the week before. If you recycle, you don't have a problem. If you choose not to recycle, then it is your problem.

I agree with Shannon . . . if you recycle, one barrel is fine.

if you live in a condo the town gives you a smaller barrel that's my concern and the only way to get a larger one is to pay for its not fair. i don't see why it matters if you live in an apartment, town house, condo, house, or mansion everybody should get the same size barrel. its not like the folk on Mitchel g drive have extra large barrels cause their houses are larger than average. so why living in a condo constitutes having a smaller barrel.

Does anyone know anything else about the breakin on Roper Lane?? I live on that end of Kendall and didn't know or hear anything about it

I agree with justaquestion. Condo households generate just as much trash as the houses in town. I think the barrel size issue sould be addressed along with the bag sticker issue.
Mr Wilson, still following this thread?

I agree. Family of four, rental town house. Small size barrel, we do recycle. Small size barrel is not enough. When we asked our landlord he said to put extra trash into area dumpsters. We had a older special needs child in diapers and can easily fill 3-4 trash bags a week, that do not all fit into the small bin. Forget if you want to do any cleaning and get rid of stuff.

We live in a small condo development with a dumpster. It is not practical to lock it with 50 households,but it is constantly overflowing with trash left by others who do not have a convenient/inexpensive way to get rid of theirs. Also we have far fewer recycling barrels than needed because we do not have an area large enough to put them. Around the holidays our dumpster is a disaster area. A town dump would alleviate so many of the problems. I have also seen bags of trash dumped in wooded areas near our condos.

denise - I never have sorted my recyclable barrels - everything goes into them together and I have never had a problem. I didn't even know I was expected to separate...

Sean, that is interesting because I could have sworn they dumped all of my recycles into the same thing that raises into the truck. I admit I am rarely home when they are doing the pickup, but I am really surprised, as I've never had an issue and I never knew we had to separate.

Glass, plastic, and cans are all dumped into one bin in the truck. Cardboard is separate.

WELL THE PROBLEM WITH THIS TOWN IS ALL THE BIG SHOTS ARE WORRIED ABOUT STUPID THINGS LIKE OUR BUILDING INSPECTOR HE IS A REAL KNOW IT ALL IF HE WAS A CIRCUS WORKER LOL INSTEAD OF WORRING ABOUT STUFF OF HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS IF HE DONT LIKE YOU OR SOMEBODY HE KNOW DOESNT LIKE YA THEN HE BREAKS YOUR NUTS FOR NO REASON AND THEN LIES ABOUT IT SAYING OH I DONT KNOW WHO IS CALLING IN COMPLAINTS OR TAKING PICTURES OF STUFF OR REPORTING YOU FOR THING WHEN ITS HIM HIMSELF HE IS AN A#$%^& AND THE TRASH SHOULD BE DUMPED @ HIS HOUSE

BUT THEN AGAIN NOBODY SHOULD DUMP THERE TRASH IN A DUMPSTER THAT SOMEBODY ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR NEXT TIME JUST ASK MOST PEOPLE WILL LET YOU THROW A FEW BAGS AWAY IF NEEDED BECAUSE THEY PAY EVEN IF THE DUMPSTER IS FULL OR EMPTY ITS THE SAME PRICE ITS NOT A BIG DEAL THE GUY OFFERED TO GO BACK AND TAKE IT OUT