Exciting topic - Recycling

MrsJMB

Probably not the most exciting topic, but I'm curious

Do you northsiders have to pay to have recycling picked up at your house?  In Greenwood we have to pay to recycle and then they pick it up once a month.  I thought maybe we could get our trash pick up reduced to twice a month instead of once a week to reduce costs, but no dice.  When I lived in Evansville they gave everyone a bin and you could recycle or not but they picked it up (for free I think).  Here we have to call, pay, have them bring out the can, etc.  It seems like a lot of legwork with no real incentive beyond recycling itself, so I can see why a lot of people don't do it.  Joe and I have been talking about starting some kind of encouraging initiative in Greenwood, but I wanted to see what the situation was in other areas of the city.  

Again, not exciting, but does anyone care to share? 

kelclay724

We live in Marion County/Indianapolis. We would have to pay to have recycling picked up, I believe. We drive to Broad Ripple about once a month to take our recycling to the park there that has recycling drop off. It is really annoying because it piles up in our garage and I wish it was free like it was when we lived in Ann Arbor!

Val&B0604

Who picks up your trash?  We switched this spring, around the time the trash got added to the water bill, to Best Way and at that point they left us all recycling bins.  I don't think we pay extra for it.  It is also picked up weekly.  

MrsJMB

Val&B0604:

Who picks up your trash?  We switched this spring, around the time the trash got added to the water bill, to Best Way and at that point they left us all recycling bins.  I don't think we pay extra for it.  It is also picked up weekly.  

Best Way.  We pay $45/quarter for trash pickup and I called them about recycling and it's $6/month (which is nothing, but still) and they pick up only once a month they said.  Which is perfectly fine, but with all the recycling we'd be doing we would really reduce our trash so a twice-monthly pickup would be fine, but they don't offer it.  

I called Republic and it's $22/month for trash plus I think $8 for recycling, so more. 

Val&B0604

MrsJMB:

Val&B0604:

Who picks up your trash?  We switched this spring, around the time the trash got added to the water bill, to Best Way and at that point they left us all recycling bins.  I don't think we pay extra for it.  It is also picked up weekly.  

Best Way.  We pay $45/quarter for trash pickup and I called them about recycling and it's $6/month (which is nothing, but still) and they pick up only once a month they said.  Which is perfectly fine, but with all the recycling we'd be doing we would really reduce our trash so a twice-monthly pickup would be fine, but they don't offer it.  

I called Republic and it's $22/month for trash plus I think $8 for recycling, so more. 

I think it was Republic before, our neighbors had bins and I always wanted to call and get one.  Then they left them for us... Who sends your trash bill?  We used to get it from the City of Greenwood then they added it to our Indiana American water bill.  When it was that way we paid about $26/mo for trash and $35ish for water, now that it's combined it's about $70/mo. 

MrsJMB

Val&B0604:

MrsJMB:

Val&B0604:

Who picks up your trash?  We switched this spring, around the time the trash got added to the water bill, to Best Way and at that point they left us all recycling bins.  I don't think we pay extra for it.  It is also picked up weekly.  

Best Way.  We pay $45/quarter for trash pickup and I called them about recycling and it's $6/month (which is nothing, but still) and they pick up only once a month they said.  Which is perfectly fine, but with all the recycling we'd be doing we would really reduce our trash so a twice-monthly pickup would be fine, but they don't offer it.  

I called Republic and it's $22/month for trash plus I think $8 for recycling, so more. 

I think it was Republic before, our neighbors had bins and I always wanted to call and get one.  Then they left them for us... Who sends your trash bill?  We used to get it from the City of Greenwood then they added it to our Indiana American water bill.  When it was that way we paid about $26/mo for trash and $35ish for water, now that it's combined it's about $70/mo. 

Our actual trash bill comes from Best Way.  We only get it quarterly. 

Val&B0604

Maybe something to do with 135 being a cut off?  Our friends live between Fry and Main on this side of 135 and their bills are like ours?  I remember reading about Greenwood having a self sustaining recycling program, and was free to residents.

MrsJMB

I think you're right, but we're outside of what they consider city limits.  Which is dumb considering we're in Carefree.  Oh well.  Joe's trying to start something around the neighborhood.  I don't know what he's thinking about proposing but it should be interesting.

Val&B0604

Good luck getting something going.  I will say when they brought the bin we have our trash dropped considerably.

IU_baby

Westfield actually has a great recycling/trash program that started about 2 years ago.  We pay $11 or $12 per month for trash and recycling through Ray's.  It's a city-wide contract.  We have 2 large carts (one for recycling and one for trash) and each week, our recycling bin is nearly full while our trash bin has maybe 2 or 3 bags.  It's definitely increased the recycling in our household. 

I think it's ridiculous that cities force you to pay for recycling, especially since that stuff is like gold to the trash folks.  They make tons of $$$ on recycling.  They should be paying us to take it

gizmo909

We live in Noblesville city limits so our trash/recycling is included with our property taxes and we don't pay anything extra.  We get 2 large carts for trash every week, and 1 smaller (but still large) cart every other week.  

SusieDMB

In Fishers we have republic.  We have a recycling trash can and it comes every other week.  I wish it came weekly or we had 2 of them b/c it's always overflowing.  Before Westfield (where my condo is) started recycling, I took my things to a sr. citizen center across from Noblesville HS.  They have huge bins for cardboard and then containers inside for glass, plastic etc.  Our HOA fees pay trash.