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Brian Shaw
Brian Shaw is the owner/operator of Action Hauling. Brian runs the company with the help of his fiance Michelle. Their goal is to help individuals and business’ by cleaning up and properly disposing of junk, debris, and rubbish. You can contact Brian by phone at 316-210-6309.
Environment
2010-01-01 15:32:00
Disposing of holiday trash
Answer: Plastic toys, old bikes, vacuum cleaners, Christmas Trees, you name it, almost anything imaginable line driveways all over the country the day after Christmas. There’s always something weird that you find in the trash, even a left over swimming pool isn’t out of the ordinary. By far Christmas is the biggest holiday for trash. The volume of trash picked up on the average is 15% to 20% higher Christmas week than that of any other week. In anticipation of the wave of trash, collectors adjust their schedules, work longer shifts to pick up the extra garbage, and that extra bit of garbage per house means additional trips to the landfill for trash collectors. Each house could have as many as two to three more bags of trash and that makes difference; in some cases they may have to make two trips for what would have normally been one. Collectors dump a lot of wrapping paper and cardboard the day after Christmas, which doesn’t weigh much, but quickly fills up the truck. Mounds of cardboard boxes from toys and scooters or other large toys put beside trash cans are a very common site after Christmas. A standard 25 cubic yard truck can hold an average 12 tons, or about 800 to 900 garbage cans’ worth of trash. And going to and from the landfill for that extra trip can take an hour or two, depending on what part of the city the truck is coming from. Simple things such as bagging all the trash and tying those bags tight can make the job easier for trash collectors. The worse is packing popcorn, if the lid is opened on a windy day and that stuff goes blowing everywhere it not only becomes an eye sore, but could be an environmental issue as well. Not tying bags properly slows everything down. They don’t have time to pick up loose trash so it blows all over the neighborhood. Working in the waste removal industry really shows you how wasteful people really are. A lot of trash can be reused or recycled, but people throw it away and don’t think about how much room it takes up at the landfill. Remember recycle, recycle, recycle. And remember not all trash can be picked up by your trash collector, electronics, unwanted appliances, and furniture shouldn’t be thrown away with the regular trash. In this case there are many waste removal contractors that are very reasonably priced, and offer much more flexibility than your trash company can provide.
 
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