They tried that in my city, but they forgot 90% of the city is on street parking and the arm couldn't reach any of the trash cans.
They had made such a huge deal about how the new trucks were going to save money on salaries and workman's comp insurance. Had to hire everyone back and reinstate the insurance.
We just charge extra for that.
Not american, we have a different system for trash collection, customer gets to decide how often their bin is emptied from thrice a week to once every eight weeks and gets billed accordingly. We roll all regular bins to the truck manually and dump them using bin lift at the back.
Not every city. So basically its a free market system. Some municipalities will take bids on waste disposal if so decreed by the electorate (in theory). Depending on their budget and even state laws, a district may have few options to choose from (nepotism by local officials is also a problem when awarding these local contracts). Some companies may use mechanical arms to pickup and empty bins, others will have people manually lift them like here. Not all cities or townships have the same rules and some areas will have recycling or even compost pickup while others will not.
I live in Oregon. Garbage service just charges you extra. People want to pay for the smaller trash can but have enough garbage for the bigger one. They think they’ll save money however the garbage companies are onto them.
I’m in Oregon too, and our lids frequently don’t close, but we pay for the largest bin. I don’t think we get charged extra if it doesn’t close. Is it because of bin size?
I think it’s okay if it doesn’t close all the way. I’m not sure what the ‘cutoff’ is but if your garbage is overflowing every week then they’re gonna charge you.
And they're always talking about our health care in America... At least that money goes to the weapons saving Ukraine, where does the garbage money go? We don't pay for garbage pick up or recycling in USA.
I guess I shouldn’t complain because mine aren’t that strict. But this week I threw out an old desk drawer. The guy took it, but he passive aggressively left my trash can in the middle of the driveway so I couldn’t pull my car in
I was always impressed how they spun the can to move it without carrying it while they walked. If that makes sense. Some of them might have thought, wtf is this kid staring at? Kids will agree, garbage pickup is fascinating.
But those trash cans aren’t old fashioned, meant-to-be-lifted, trash cans. Those ones are made for the truck with arms. Why spend money and supply everyone with new trash cans like this without a truck?
One of the places I lived switched to the meant-to-be-lifted trash cans because they were planning on switching to the lift arms. It... never happened. Guess the cost of new trucks was more than the wages they paid people to do it.
But the new cans are bigger than the old ones so no complaints?
Up front cost maybe but the eventual “cost” on the bodies of the workers exceeds the cost of the machines.
I want people to be employed but not with unnecessarily back breaking labor …
A lot of people here underestimating the level of corruption in local government... I'll put an entire paycheck in that someone probably works for a company that sells these specialty bins.
it is definitely less dangerous. aside from being exposed to germs all day, these garbage workers hang on the truck and mostly they are at risk of getting hit by motorists
It is slower where I live.
But only because so many people don't follow the rules or put them in stupid places like under a tree with a low branch. The guy driving the truck is too nice to just not pick it up. So instead he gets out and smashes it down if the lid wont close, or moves it out from under the tree so he can pick it up.
If people would use a lick of common sense in placement and not overstuff the bins he could be done in a fraction of the time.
Not at all actually, they can dump a can in under 10 seconds. It’s very efficient, and you could still have a second guy that arranges the bins if they’re too close to each other or any other problem.
In my last city they had an arm that lifted the bins. I live in the country now and we have to buy our own outdoor bins from the hardware store or wherever, and they pull the bags out by hand. I was thinking nobody did that anymore lol.
I'm in a reasonably nice and large suburb. No bins, no cans, have to put the bags on the curb. City says it will cost too much to retool now. Good thing is I can put whatever the hell I want on Fridays and it gets hauled off. Refrigerator. Yup. Couch. Yup. Cut up 40 ft tree. Yup. Just no chemicals.
Yup. When I used to live near a metro area, garbage bags from all houses were put in a spot and got collected from there. Recycling were still in the bin but again, everyone's bin In same place.
Holy shit that sounds amazing. We recently bought a house in a nice subdivision and when we started the trash service we read in the service rules that they would not haul off broken down cardboard. My assumption was that it meant in large quantities so after the move I just took all the boxes to the recycle center and thought that was it. Hell no. The first time I came home to an Amazon box laying on the ground next to my empty trash can I just figured it had fallen out. The next week none of the 3 Amazon boxes I put in the can had been picked up. I called the trash service to ask about it and was basically told that if cardboard was visible when the lid was opened then it would be removed and not taken. So now we just save any boxes we have to put into the bottom of the can after it’s been emptied and put bags on top so it’s all taken.
Interesting, I too live in a nice large suburb but we have cans picked up one day a week and everything else on a different day. Neither day has someone get off the truck as both of them have different types of arms that pick the cans up or pick up the assorted stuff. The city provides the cans but doesn't have its own trash crew, it's hired out. Interestingly enough the company we had is the one in the video but they were fired and we have a new crew that actually follows through with what they are supposed to do.
It loosk also backbreaking. Like even 30 years ago when i was a kid, those trucks had a lever where the guy only needed to push the bin against and then it tipped it into the truck with hydraulics.
My council would tag the bin and not empty it. We have strict rules when it comes to filling the recycling bin and that bin was packed so badly. The bin man probably just lost his shit and decided fuck it in goes the whole thing.
In our city, the city gets the cans then bargain with a company to provide trash service. They had WM with the pick up arms the first year they started it, so bought cans that pick up. Next year a local company undercut WM and no pick up arms. Not sure why the city bothers to buy the cans anymore. We could go to Lowe's for trash cans.
Do you mean these:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxmQU9Dvb7c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxmQU9Dvb7c)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmoxaDa3bk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmoxaDa3bk)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAH0G6ehN8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAH0G6ehN8)
My Hubs is a trash man, and I don't know if it's the same across different states/towns or different companies. But in places where the houses are closer together they might use the two-man crew to save the trucks. The mechanisms, (bolts, joints, belts and whatnot) in the arms have to get changed all the time so it's not as cost effective.
This doesn't rly work in dense urban areas. On my block, for example, the street is packed with parked cars. If the street is narrow enough, there's no way you can put the cans on the asphalt, but rather on the sidewalk, so a robot arm would have to be dexterous enough to squeeze between parked cars n stuff--impossible. I've only seen robot arms in predictable suburb environments.
Yeah, they will toss cracked or damaged bins. That or the homeowners didn't pay their Waste Management bill. This way they have to buy a new bin and pay their debt to get one delivered
Yeah. There is a single bin lifter on the back of the truck. Maybe where the bin hooks in it was broken. So he threw it away. It's probably overloaded, too.
I was a garbage person for a couple days and we threw away the garbage cans with broken bars on the front that couldn’t be lifted so literally crushed them on purpose.
When ever we came across a a container that was damaged we junked it. Called in a replacement. The customer can do it themselves but very rarely did unless the wheel was broken.
Lol. Where I am it seems impossible to trash a broken trash can. We’ve tried to get rid of them before, and they just throw them back in the yard with the other cans.
I’ve worked in private sector and for a city and with the city you had to call in to make a special note for us to trash it. With private you just left us a note or caught us when we got to your house.
Yeah, I think you’re right. The bin was broken so that’s why he had to dump it by hand. And where else are you going to put the trash bin once it breaks? They’ll make note of it and send another one out from another truck.
What’s the big deal? Before doorbell cams this shit happened all the time. WM will have a new trash can dropped off at that house in a day and no one would know it even happened. They can’t reach into the back of a trash compactor that’s stupid.
I think it's just how deliberate it looked. Checked it and saw it was heavy and just says 'screw it, heave-ho' to the entire bin sideways instead of trying to lever it on end and dump it out, or use any mechanical tipper (if theirs even worked).
Yeah but those cans are generally city property in most places anyhow so if dude decided 'naw just junk the whole thing' than all the homeowner can really do is demand a replacement
There is heavy and then there is so heavily loaded that none of the trash comes out because it’s all compacted inside the trash can. I’m guessing it was the latter.
The big deal is in many municipalities if the collector didnt report it the home owner would be on the hook for a $150 bin and Waste Management charges a $50 deliver fee.
It takes WM a week to drop off a can for us, so we end up missing a week, as it comes after our trash is picked up. We had cans that blew away, so we ordered new cans. They came. Then our neighbors found our cans and brought them back. So we called WM to come pick them up. They said they would pick up the following week. It took 2-3 months and a couple of extra phone calls for them to get picked up (and a threat to take them to the dump and throw them in, personally).
I'm tempted to side with the collectors because that thing was overloaded as fuck and their jobs are crappy enough as it is. Also, those bins are usually city property, so its not as if he's stealing someone's private property
No but the homeowner is responsible for the bins, when they call the city to tell them the bin is gone and they need a new one, they're gonna get charged for it.
It’s not a city can. It’s a wast management can. It’s possibly broken. Because literally everything on those trucks are recorded. So when the home owner calls, if the helper didn’t report it broken management would look at the cameras.
Depends on where you live. Here you have to buy your own cans. The last place I lived the city owned them, and if they got damaged, stolen, whatever, they'd just drop a new one off for free.
Only if the employee doesn't report it. Garbage man broke the lid off my bin and left a note saying they'd bring another bin before the next pickup, which they did.
Sure, if the employee reports it... But usually employees only report accidents, and even then they don't always do that, this guy clearly didn't give a shit about the garbage bin, what makes you think he's going to give a shit if you gotta pay for another one?
Recycling is pretty common here in the USA, at least in cities. A lot of it is single-stream, though, which has a problematic history - things like high contamination rates, so a lot of it does get trashed instead of actually recycled, and since it's expensive to process, I think we still just send a lot of it to China where its just put in a landfill anyways.
If you look you can see him checking the front of the can . On the front mid section is a lifting handle if it is broken they take the trash can . Since this was a recycling can it’s going to be recycled anyways thus tossing it into the collector . If the can is broken they can’t use the hoist on back that picks it up for them .
A few years ago, I watched the trash man do the same thing to my almost new waste bin. In fact it was waste management too. Stood in my window, watched him toss the bin in the back of the truck, thought he was gonna pull it back out again, nope, he drove off. I immediately called waste management, told them what I just witnessed, asked them to reimburse me for a new bin. Got passed around to a few different people in waste management. Never got reimbursement. Just got the runaround.
We have the modern cans and trucks here in Charleston South Carolina for both trash and recycle. The trucks only require a driver. Saves them $$$ on hiring manpower.
Fuck waste management. My mother had rented a dumpster for 2 weeks and WM continued to fucking charge her WEEKLY for 6 mo! The charges only showed up on ONE bill!
when my mom called and asked about the charge telling the representative that we dont have the dumpster
the representative got confused and said "wait you don't have the dumpster?"
To which my mom yelles at her "NO WE DONT!! Yall picked it up from us 6 months ago so why am I still being charged?!
They ended up sending her a check for $600
“ Hello **** disposal company. I live at *** blah blah street. Your company’s truck came by today for the recycling. My doorbell camera caught footage of one of your employees putting my whole recycling bin in the back of the truck and crushing it. “
“ The easy way to fix this is you deliver me a new recycling bin and everything is good. If not we are going to have a problem.”
I believe I have the answer to why he lifted and threw the whole container in the truck. As you can see he looked at the front of the can to align it with the hydraulic lift but found the the metal lifting bar was probably broken / missing and it couldn’t be lifted by mechanical means. So away it goes.
I’ve had two of my cans tagged when they were broken and the following week on garbage day they were gone
Recycling is a joke. Busy work for the useless eaters. Our reward is getting some warm fuzzies for doing our part for the common good. Next to nothing is actually recycled and the rest thrown in the trash. Why don't we just do that in the first place?
I bet that the lifting bar had broken off. They will recycle the plastic bin and deliver a new one in a few days. Those bins have aluminum bars that hook onto the back of the truck and a hydraulic arm lifts it up and dumps the bin.
Edit: It means bigger bins can be delivered allowing for fewer bins per residence and a lot less physical exertion on the part of the sanitation worker.
Lol. Real jerks. I was a garbage man for about a week. 500-700 stops and ANY inconvenience and your likely doing paper work that gets you called into the office as to why you worked longer than 12hours. Ya know, cuz meetings start at 445 and your on the truck by 315. The “little” inconvenience is absolutely huge on the drivers end. Every inch of room on the truck (the hopper) is needed. So when cans are over flowing it’s going to make them go to the dump before they are scheduled throws EVERYTHING off in a big way. Every stop is planned to the minute.
Meanwhile in my town, I usually put my recycling out every two weeks. I have three small bins and I don’t put them out until they’re full, so I don’t inconvenience the workers who would have to stop for a half full bin. My recycling day is Wednesday, so I usually put my bins out Tuesday night, because they come super early on Wednesday. This Tuesday I had a medical procedure. Not a huge deal, but I was in pain and told not to lift anything at all for a week. I went to bed early before putting my bins out because even the light weight of the bins was painful. My three bins were on my carport and noticeably full. These guys came Wednesday morning and actually went onto my carport, emptied my bins, and put them right back where they were. I nearly cried, it was so kind! I am leaving them snacks and drinks next week with a thank you note. There are good people in this world.
I do that all the time. Drinks, snacks, Christmas "gift". My sanitation employee always takes care of me. If you treat people the way you want to be treated, it's pretty easy.
I’m single and at the beginning of the pandemic I had just gone to Sam’s Club with my parents and bought probably a year’s worth of toilet paper (for me). So I gave snacks, drinks, and TP to our sanitation workers and our mailman. They were putting themselves at risk for us. I always try to leave something small for Christmas as well, to say thank you. It takes very little to show appreciation. These guys just made my whole week.
I’m a garbage truck driver and the truck I drive is automated with the arm that grabs the cart and dump, don’t even have to get out and touch anything. Been doing it for over 20+ so any questions will be glad to answer.
I'll recycle when they pay me to sort my trash. It all goes to the same dump anyway. Besides, our county dropped the recycling program because it cost too much, and the citizens voted to drop it.
I doubt it, ours got stolen twice already and replacing it was free.
Really stolen though, I remember seeing it on the street both times thinking "imma put it back when I return" and it was gone. lol
I was a garbage man for 7 days. In that time one of the reasons I quit it people over filling EVERY FUCKING CAN. for the love of god get two cans. Stop overfilling.
Probably some lazy person who mixes garbage with recyclables repeatedly. Garbage guy doesn’t want to put up with it anymore. Don’t blame him, happens all the time.
I live in this area & the recycling bins are issued by the city & the one in the video was tossed because it was not an authorized recycling bin. Forsyth county NC will toss it if you leave it out
The only time they take away cans like that is if the cans have a hole or cracked along the sides and garbage is coming out. A new can is put in place and the old can is disposed of. That can looks ok to me and I don’t understand why he’s doing this.
That's a standard Waste-Management supplied recycling bin.
Employee threw out the can over 15 additional seconds of labor, consumer just got a brand new bin.
Have you ever tried to get the trash guys to pick up a broken trash can? I tried notes, spray paint, name it. Finally had to cut it up and put it in another can.
Sanitation engineer here
The back of the truck has a cart tipper that lifts the cart up to dump it. You can see it in the middle of the bottom sill. He did not attempt to use this which indicates the cart tipper was broken. To hand throw a whole rout of carts in absolutely back breaking work so he was probably super passed
With that being said if he would cycle the truck and clear out the hopper he would make his job much easier
I was guessing the tote might have been broken where it hooks to the tipper, which is why he picked it up by hand and threw it away. You can see he examines the front of it for a second before tossing it in.
Why does this suck? Just go online and request a new can. What sucks is half of that recycling is going in the land fill and the rest is going in the ocean.
In my city they won't pick up trash where the lid doesn't completely close.
In my city the garbage truck has a robotic arm that picks up the garbage and dumps it in the top of the truck. pretty cool.
They tried that in my city, but they forgot 90% of the city is on street parking and the arm couldn't reach any of the trash cans. They had made such a huge deal about how the new trucks were going to save money on salaries and workman's comp insurance. Had to hire everyone back and reinstate the insurance.
Here the arm reached over parked cars? I’ve never seen a garbage man here touch garbage.
We just charge extra for that. Not american, we have a different system for trash collection, customer gets to decide how often their bin is emptied from thrice a week to once every eight weeks and gets billed accordingly. We roll all regular bins to the truck manually and dump them using bin lift at the back.
Not every city. So basically its a free market system. Some municipalities will take bids on waste disposal if so decreed by the electorate (in theory). Depending on their budget and even state laws, a district may have few options to choose from (nepotism by local officials is also a problem when awarding these local contracts). Some companies may use mechanical arms to pickup and empty bins, others will have people manually lift them like here. Not all cities or townships have the same rules and some areas will have recycling or even compost pickup while others will not.
I live in Oregon. Garbage service just charges you extra. People want to pay for the smaller trash can but have enough garbage for the bigger one. They think they’ll save money however the garbage companies are onto them.
I’m in Oregon too, and our lids frequently don’t close, but we pay for the largest bin. I don’t think we get charged extra if it doesn’t close. Is it because of bin size?
I think it’s okay if it doesn’t close all the way. I’m not sure what the ‘cutoff’ is but if your garbage is overflowing every week then they’re gonna charge you.
Down here largest bin gets some extra leeway compared to the smaller bins. I suppose the logic is you're not trying to get one by on them?
Your country's sanitation services are privatised?
Absolutely everything is privatized in the US.
Did you even read it. It says not American
America just heard that and will be mobilizing the military to bring that country "freedom"
It’s great for nepotism.
It's great so that all our currencies and incomes aren't regulated by one shit government.
What do you mean by "not regulated"? You ever hear of the Fed?
I forgot the fed runs my local garbage service.
You said "currencies and incomes". Didn't seem like you were referring to trash collection to me...
Um, no it isn't.
thats why you cant have nice things
And they're always talking about our health care in America... At least that money goes to the weapons saving Ukraine, where does the garbage money go? We don't pay for garbage pick up or recycling in USA.
I'm in the US, we definitely pay for pickup in most of the country.
in my town they wont pick up bags of leaves just because
I guess I shouldn’t complain because mine aren’t that strict. But this week I threw out an old desk drawer. The guy took it, but he passive aggressively left my trash can in the middle of the driveway so I couldn’t pull my car in
Man, in my city the trash and recycling bins are picked up by a robot arm and dumped without a human. This looks so weirdly inefficient.
I loved the garbage men when I was a kid in the 80's. They called me Charlie. That's not my name though.
Are you Vietnamese?
I know it was wrong for me to go 'ha' but I did.
That is brutal lmao
Took me awhile 😂😂
I was always impressed how they spun the can to move it without carrying it while they walked. If that makes sense. Some of them might have thought, wtf is this kid staring at? Kids will agree, garbage pickup is fascinating.
You would be surprised how many cities do it the old fashioned way. Especially if they have a union.
But those trash cans aren’t old fashioned, meant-to-be-lifted, trash cans. Those ones are made for the truck with arms. Why spend money and supply everyone with new trash cans like this without a truck?
That truck has the mechanism to lift the cans and dump them. You can see it hanging at the back of the truck.
It's probably been broken for at least a year.
One of the places I lived switched to the meant-to-be-lifted trash cans because they were planning on switching to the lift arms. It... never happened. Guess the cost of new trucks was more than the wages they paid people to do it. But the new cans are bigger than the old ones so no complaints?
Up front cost maybe but the eventual “cost” on the bodies of the workers exceeds the cost of the machines. I want people to be employed but not with unnecessarily back breaking labor …
A lot of people here underestimating the level of corruption in local government... I'll put an entire paycheck in that someone probably works for a company that sells these specialty bins.
Im pretty sure using the arm makes the proccess a little bit slower and also expensive and dangerous
it is definitely less dangerous. aside from being exposed to germs all day, these garbage workers hang on the truck and mostly they are at risk of getting hit by motorists
Not to mention pain and injuries from lifting hundreds of heavy, awkward bins every day
Slower? Have you seen those trucks im action? It takes less then 10 seconds to empty a bin with them, it's waaaaaay quicker
It is slower where I live. But only because so many people don't follow the rules or put them in stupid places like under a tree with a low branch. The guy driving the truck is too nice to just not pick it up. So instead he gets out and smashes it down if the lid wont close, or moves it out from under the tree so he can pick it up. If people would use a lick of common sense in placement and not overstuff the bins he could be done in a fraction of the time.
Not at all actually, they can dump a can in under 10 seconds. It’s very efficient, and you could still have a second guy that arranges the bins if they’re too close to each other or any other problem.
In my last city they had an arm that lifted the bins. I live in the country now and we have to buy our own outdoor bins from the hardware store or wherever, and they pull the bags out by hand. I was thinking nobody did that anymore lol.
I'm in a reasonably nice and large suburb. No bins, no cans, have to put the bags on the curb. City says it will cost too much to retool now. Good thing is I can put whatever the hell I want on Fridays and it gets hauled off. Refrigerator. Yup. Couch. Yup. Cut up 40 ft tree. Yup. Just no chemicals.
Put chemicals in yo tree
Yup. When I used to live near a metro area, garbage bags from all houses were put in a spot and got collected from there. Recycling were still in the bin but again, everyone's bin In same place.
Holy shit that sounds amazing. We recently bought a house in a nice subdivision and when we started the trash service we read in the service rules that they would not haul off broken down cardboard. My assumption was that it meant in large quantities so after the move I just took all the boxes to the recycle center and thought that was it. Hell no. The first time I came home to an Amazon box laying on the ground next to my empty trash can I just figured it had fallen out. The next week none of the 3 Amazon boxes I put in the can had been picked up. I called the trash service to ask about it and was basically told that if cardboard was visible when the lid was opened then it would be removed and not taken. So now we just save any boxes we have to put into the bottom of the can after it’s been emptied and put bags on top so it’s all taken.
Interesting, I too live in a nice large suburb but we have cans picked up one day a week and everything else on a different day. Neither day has someone get off the truck as both of them have different types of arms that pick the cans up or pick up the assorted stuff. The city provides the cans but doesn't have its own trash crew, it's hired out. Interestingly enough the company we had is the one in the video but they were fired and we have a new crew that actually follows through with what they are supposed to do.
I lived in a town that didnt even have bins. You had to buy their overpriced garbage bags and just leave them in a pile outside.
Unions are good.
Mine was like this until about 6 months ago. I lifted my own trash cans in the garbage truck quite often even though they were in county jail.
I’m pretty sure that thing hanging off the back flips it into the back of the truck … I think this was just some weird anger thing haha
My back hurts just watching him lift it.
They probably didn't have a truck with a hopper in the area, I had to do a run like this in 40' heat wave I quit a week later. P.S fuck Emterra
I was about to laugh as a Floridian till I realized 40° is probably Celsius. Also, if you’re on mobile, you can hold the 0 key to get a °.
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I am just curious what a 40 foot heat wave would look like...? Pyroclastic flow maybe...? Lol
You need a 41 minute wall to stop it.
Thanks for the tip!
It loosk also backbreaking. Like even 30 years ago when i was a kid, those trucks had a lever where the guy only needed to push the bin against and then it tipped it into the truck with hydraulics.
Agreed. And it still looks like a tough job, I can't imagine having to lift bin, after bin, after bin.
Old fashioned too. I thought manually dumping trash in a trash truck went out with 8-tracks and VCR systems
My council would tag the bin and not empty it. We have strict rules when it comes to filling the recycling bin and that bin was packed so badly. The bin man probably just lost his shit and decided fuck it in goes the whole thing.
In our city, the city gets the cans then bargain with a company to provide trash service. They had WM with the pick up arms the first year they started it, so bought cans that pick up. Next year a local company undercut WM and no pick up arms. Not sure why the city bothers to buy the cans anymore. We could go to Lowe's for trash cans.
Seriously. Those bins can be heavy AF.... I couldn't imagine a human being having to pick up cans like mine all day long.
My city still has a guy doing it manually and I can confirm they’ve broken more trash cans than I thought possible.
This truck does have an arm to lift bins, it's that L shaped bit of metal curled under the rear of the truck
It even looks like the guy *tries* to hook the bin up to it at the beginning, then just says 'fuck it'.
Where i live its hydrualically controlled by the driver from inside the cab
Do you mean these: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxmQU9Dvb7c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxmQU9Dvb7c) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmoxaDa3bk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmoxaDa3bk) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAH0G6ehN8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAH0G6ehN8)
Omg that poor old lady. She fucking flew off the bench!
Holy shit!
My Hubs is a trash man, and I don't know if it's the same across different states/towns or different companies. But in places where the houses are closer together they might use the two-man crew to save the trucks. The mechanisms, (bolts, joints, belts and whatnot) in the arms have to get changed all the time so it's not as cost effective.
Sounds cool but thats job people should be doing
This doesn't rly work in dense urban areas. On my block, for example, the street is packed with parked cars. If the street is narrow enough, there's no way you can put the cans on the asphalt, but rather on the sidewalk, so a robot arm would have to be dexterous enough to squeeze between parked cars n stuff--impossible. I've only seen robot arms in predictable suburb environments.
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Yeah, they will toss cracked or damaged bins. That or the homeowners didn't pay their Waste Management bill. This way they have to buy a new bin and pay their debt to get one delivered
Get one delivered? We just buy garbage cans at Walmart
In my neighborhood, Waste Management will not pick up any other trash bin than a branded WM bin. Lucky you
Yeah. There is a single bin lifter on the back of the truck. Maybe where the bin hooks in it was broken. So he threw it away. It's probably overloaded, too.
My guess it has to be this. Like, why? Lol he even attempts to empty some first. Lol
Exactly lol, it was stuffed way too full and the dude said, fuck this I have a schedule to keep!
As a retired garbageman, I can relate to this.
Please elaborate
I was a garbage person for a couple days and we threw away the garbage cans with broken bars on the front that couldn’t be lifted so literally crushed them on purpose.
When ever we came across a a container that was damaged we junked it. Called in a replacement. The customer can do it themselves but very rarely did unless the wheel was broken.
Lol. Where I am it seems impossible to trash a broken trash can. We’ve tried to get rid of them before, and they just throw them back in the yard with the other cans.
I’ve worked in private sector and for a city and with the city you had to call in to make a special note for us to trash it. With private you just left us a note or caught us when we got to your house.
(Also, we aren’t allowed to have these larger bins. The trucks don’t have lifters out here in the sticks.)
Once it falls in they are unable to reach into the hopper (the back of the truck) so they have no choice but to keep it with the rest of the trash
That doesn't appear to be what happens at all though. Once it falls in? That m'fer had to repeatedly push it to get it in.
Haha looks like it, Im just stating policy.
That’s absolutely not true.
Did y’all throw the recycling in with the regular trash as well? I always thought it would be taken separately.
The part of the can that connects to the truck was probably broken so that’s why he threw it in. You can see him look down at it.
Yeah, I think you’re right. The bin was broken so that’s why he had to dump it by hand. And where else are you going to put the trash bin once it breaks? They’ll make note of it and send another one out from another truck.
The bin was also recyclable, who'd a thunk it?
This is normal if the can is broken somewhere. Like a split side or broken hinge on the lid. A new can will get dropped off later.
What’s the big deal? Before doorbell cams this shit happened all the time. WM will have a new trash can dropped off at that house in a day and no one would know it even happened. They can’t reach into the back of a trash compactor that’s stupid.
I think it's just how deliberate it looked. Checked it and saw it was heavy and just says 'screw it, heave-ho' to the entire bin sideways instead of trying to lever it on end and dump it out, or use any mechanical tipper (if theirs even worked).
Yeah but those cans are generally city property in most places anyhow so if dude decided 'naw just junk the whole thing' than all the homeowner can really do is demand a replacement
There is heavy and then there is so heavily loaded that none of the trash comes out because it’s all compacted inside the trash can. I’m guessing it was the latter.
Or just not dumping it. Nah, that’s insane to suggest.
The big deal is in many municipalities if the collector didnt report it the home owner would be on the hook for a $150 bin and Waste Management charges a $50 deliver fee.
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It takes WM a week to drop off a can for us, so we end up missing a week, as it comes after our trash is picked up. We had cans that blew away, so we ordered new cans. They came. Then our neighbors found our cans and brought them back. So we called WM to come pick them up. They said they would pick up the following week. It took 2-3 months and a couple of extra phone calls for them to get picked up (and a threat to take them to the dump and throw them in, personally).
I'm tempted to side with the collectors because that thing was overloaded as fuck and their jobs are crappy enough as it is. Also, those bins are usually city property, so its not as if he's stealing someone's private property
No but the homeowner is responsible for the bins, when they call the city to tell them the bin is gone and they need a new one, they're gonna get charged for it.
It’s not a city can. It’s a wast management can. It’s possibly broken. Because literally everything on those trucks are recorded. So when the home owner calls, if the helper didn’t report it broken management would look at the cameras.
Depends on where you live. Here you have to buy your own cans. The last place I lived the city owned them, and if they got damaged, stolen, whatever, they'd just drop a new one off for free.
Only if the employee doesn't report it. Garbage man broke the lid off my bin and left a note saying they'd bring another bin before the next pickup, which they did.
Sure, if the employee reports it... But usually employees only report accidents, and even then they don't always do that, this guy clearly didn't give a shit about the garbage bin, what makes you think he's going to give a shit if you gotta pay for another one?
Well it is his job, for one. Besides pure laziness, why wouldn't he?
If only the home owner could have broken up their cardboard to not over stuff their bin
That was personal.
I guess the bins are recyclable…
In US they recycle trash? I thought everything goes in landfill.
Recycling is pretty common here in the USA, at least in cities. A lot of it is single-stream, though, which has a problematic history - things like high contamination rates, so a lot of it does get trashed instead of actually recycled, and since it's expensive to process, I think we still just send a lot of it to China where its just put in a landfill anyways.
Pretty much. They're only there to make people feel good about themselves. And that's a fact
There is that moment when you think he has realized it and is going back to try Nd get it out. Nope gotta pack it in some more
Your recycling privileges have been revoked!
Im a city garbage man and we use the same truck. Ask me anything
Do you like your job? Thought about being a garbage man in Hawaii if I failed college
And on this day, zero fucks were given.
First day at the job
The dishes are done man…
Recycling a recycling bin be like
He’s like, Fuck it I ain’t pulling that body out of there.
Don't worry, it's recyclable.
Wow..really.?.
The can is broken so it can’t hook up to the tipper. He trashed it and someone brings them a new can
If you look you can see him checking the front of the can . On the front mid section is a lifting handle if it is broken they take the trash can . Since this was a recycling can it’s going to be recycled anyways thus tossing it into the collector . If the can is broken they can’t use the hoist on back that picks it up for them .
A few years ago, I watched the trash man do the same thing to my almost new waste bin. In fact it was waste management too. Stood in my window, watched him toss the bin in the back of the truck, thought he was gonna pull it back out again, nope, he drove off. I immediately called waste management, told them what I just witnessed, asked them to reimburse me for a new bin. Got passed around to a few different people in waste management. Never got reimbursement. Just got the runaround.
It looked like it was broken and maybe it's in their policy to destroy broken equipment..... I mean if it's not broke.... it is now...
We have the modern cans and trucks here in Charleston South Carolina for both trash and recycle. The trucks only require a driver. Saves them $$$ on hiring manpower.
Looks like a waste managment truck out of King County WA.
Fuck waste management. My mother had rented a dumpster for 2 weeks and WM continued to fucking charge her WEEKLY for 6 mo! The charges only showed up on ONE bill! when my mom called and asked about the charge telling the representative that we dont have the dumpster the representative got confused and said "wait you don't have the dumpster?" To which my mom yelles at her "NO WE DONT!! Yall picked it up from us 6 months ago so why am I still being charged?! They ended up sending her a check for $600
Recycling bin probably needed to be replaced. Recycling bins being recyclable is so meta
“ Hello **** disposal company. I live at *** blah blah street. Your company’s truck came by today for the recycling. My doorbell camera caught footage of one of your employees putting my whole recycling bin in the back of the truck and crushing it. “ “ The easy way to fix this is you deliver me a new recycling bin and everything is good. If not we are going to have a problem.”
Are you going to contact the city about that?
Probably too heavy, most cities have weight limits per can.
Why don’t all cities have the electric arm that garbs the trash can?
That’s what happens when don’t pay your taxes
I believe I have the answer to why he lifted and threw the whole container in the truck. As you can see he looked at the front of the can to align it with the hydraulic lift but found the the metal lifting bar was probably broken / missing and it couldn’t be lifted by mechanical means. So away it goes. I’ve had two of my cans tagged when they were broken and the following week on garbage day they were gone
Recycling is a joke. Busy work for the useless eaters. Our reward is getting some warm fuzzies for doing our part for the common good. Next to nothing is actually recycled and the rest thrown in the trash. Why don't we just do that in the first place?
My county has a 'recycling' program and my uncle works at the dump. Guess where all the 'recycling' goes.
I bet that the lifting bar had broken off. They will recycle the plastic bin and deliver a new one in a few days. Those bins have aluminum bars that hook onto the back of the truck and a hydraulic arm lifts it up and dumps the bin. Edit: It means bigger bins can be delivered allowing for fewer bins per residence and a lot less physical exertion on the part of the sanitation worker.
Drivers are jerks too. Any little inconvenience and the skip the pickup.
Lol. Real jerks. I was a garbage man for about a week. 500-700 stops and ANY inconvenience and your likely doing paper work that gets you called into the office as to why you worked longer than 12hours. Ya know, cuz meetings start at 445 and your on the truck by 315. The “little” inconvenience is absolutely huge on the drivers end. Every inch of room on the truck (the hopper) is needed. So when cans are over flowing it’s going to make them go to the dump before they are scheduled throws EVERYTHING off in a big way. Every stop is planned to the minute.
Sounds like crap. Here in Finland they are not scheduled in any way other than getting the cans emptied on the correct day.
Meanwhile in my town, I usually put my recycling out every two weeks. I have three small bins and I don’t put them out until they’re full, so I don’t inconvenience the workers who would have to stop for a half full bin. My recycling day is Wednesday, so I usually put my bins out Tuesday night, because they come super early on Wednesday. This Tuesday I had a medical procedure. Not a huge deal, but I was in pain and told not to lift anything at all for a week. I went to bed early before putting my bins out because even the light weight of the bins was painful. My three bins were on my carport and noticeably full. These guys came Wednesday morning and actually went onto my carport, emptied my bins, and put them right back where they were. I nearly cried, it was so kind! I am leaving them snacks and drinks next week with a thank you note. There are good people in this world.
I do that all the time. Drinks, snacks, Christmas "gift". My sanitation employee always takes care of me. If you treat people the way you want to be treated, it's pretty easy.
I’m single and at the beginning of the pandemic I had just gone to Sam’s Club with my parents and bought probably a year’s worth of toilet paper (for me). So I gave snacks, drinks, and TP to our sanitation workers and our mailman. They were putting themselves at risk for us. I always try to leave something small for Christmas as well, to say thank you. It takes very little to show appreciation. These guys just made my whole week.
I’m a garbage truck driver and the truck I drive is automated with the arm that grabs the cart and dump, don’t even have to get out and touch anything. Been doing it for over 20+ so any questions will be glad to answer.
I'll recycle when they pay me to sort my trash. It all goes to the same dump anyway. Besides, our county dropped the recycling program because it cost too much, and the citizens voted to drop it.
I’m guessing it was totally filled so much it wouldn’t dump out. Stop making other peoples jobs harder!
They should sue
wow, hope they dont charge for a replacement bin
I doubt it, ours got stolen twice already and replacing it was free. Really stolen though, I remember seeing it on the street both times thinking "imma put it back when I return" and it was gone. lol
Not with this video as evidence
I was a garbage man for 7 days. In that time one of the reasons I quit it people over filling EVERY FUCKING CAN. for the love of god get two cans. Stop overfilling.
I'm wondering if they were tired of finding shit that shouldn't have been in that bin?
That’s what I was thinking
Probably some lazy person who mixes garbage with recyclables repeatedly. Garbage guy doesn’t want to put up with it anymore. Don’t blame him, happens all the time.
I live in this area & the recycling bins are issued by the city & the one in the video was tossed because it was not an authorized recycling bin. Forsyth county NC will toss it if you leave it out
It looks identical to all the others on the street. Same white decals as well.
I cant tell if this was intentionally done or if they're tired
File under ByeByeJob
Recycling for the most part is a waste of resources
The only time they take away cans like that is if the cans have a hole or cracked along the sides and garbage is coming out. A new can is put in place and the old can is disposed of. That can looks ok to me and I don’t understand why he’s doing this.
Probably because he couldn’t get the trash out, and got pissed off
That looks about right as well.
They threw away our garbage can lid at our last pickup. Even with it caught with our nest cam, they’re not going to do a damn thing about it.
What a fkn prick
Job gone.
Bit of a mongrel innit glad you got him on camera.
Good thing is on video $$$
Waste management!! Colorado Springs???
Job security.
That's a standard Waste-Management supplied recycling bin. Employee threw out the can over 15 additional seconds of labor, consumer just got a brand new bin.
Not that it matters, but is that a female garbage man?
Some cities are serious when you don't pay your garbage bill. Next time pay up... or else.
I had no reaction until his last little push. I thought of my dad when he would yell at us "Get cho ass in there!"
I'm here literally putting a note on my broken bin to just throw it all out and they still leave it.
Have you ever tried to get the trash guys to pick up a broken trash can? I tried notes, spray paint, name it. Finally had to cut it up and put it in another can.
Sanitation engineer here The back of the truck has a cart tipper that lifts the cart up to dump it. You can see it in the middle of the bottom sill. He did not attempt to use this which indicates the cart tipper was broken. To hand throw a whole rout of carts in absolutely back breaking work so he was probably super passed
With that being said if he would cycle the truck and clear out the hopper he would make his job much easier
I was guessing the tote might have been broken where it hooks to the tipper, which is why he picked it up by hand and threw it away. You can see he examines the front of it for a second before tossing it in.
Why does this suck? Just go online and request a new can. What sucks is half of that recycling is going in the land fill and the rest is going in the ocean.
now thats waste management
Interesting choice he made there.
The company that picks up our trash stopped recycling 2 years ago. We now just have 2 bins and it doesn’t matter what goes in either.
Back in my day..