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Anonymous wrote:In similar situations I've driven my trash to the dump.

We don’t have dumps in our part of Northern Virginia. Where do you live?

Yes, yes you do. Where do you think your trash goes?

We are not allowed to utilize the dump that the county utilizes for trash pickup.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In similar situations I've driven my trash to the dump.

We don’t have dumps in our part of Northern Virginia. Where do you live?

Yes, yes you do. Where do you think your trash goes?

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Anonymous wrote:I think if you do it one time, it's not a big deal.

But what if everyone did it just that once this week?

What if everyone bought their groceries at one specific Safeway on Saturdays at 10am? Wouldn't work.

What if everyone decided to play board games every week around the Columbus Memorial Fountain? Chaos.

Just because everyone can't do it doesn't make it wrong, PP. You need additional assumptions to make that case. It's not a slam dunk.

Public dumping is illegal and OP could be fined. Your reasoning is illogical. It’s not illegal to go to the grocery store on a Saturday morning.

Is it public dumping, though? I consider public dumping to be things like tires and batteries and other things not easily disposed of.

We get trash twice a week. Once a week? I cannot even imagine the stench in the summer! Food trash, period trash, diapers when they were little--yikes. (3 teenagers who make a lot of trash.)

I don’t understand why it couldn’t sit in the trash can at your house until the next pickup, or how this was different than any other week?

That said, I don’t see this as a big deal. It doesn’t sound like a lot of stuff; and was a one time thing…that lady was being a busybody.

Anonymous wrote:For the people who are saying it’s fine, don’t complain that the park bins are overflowing or that there are rats on the playground.

Pretty soon you won't have trashcans at the park. That's the usual solution.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you do it one time, it's not a big deal.

But what if everyone did it just that once this week?

What if everyone bought their groceries at one specific Safeway on Saturdays at 10am? Wouldn't work.

What if everyone decided to play board games every week around the Columbus Memorial Fountain? Chaos.

Just because everyone can't do it doesn't make it wrong, PP. You need additional assumptions to make that case. It's not a slam dunk.

Public dumping is illegal and OP could be fined. Your reasoning is illogical. It’s not illegal to go to the grocery store on a Saturday morning.

Anonymous wrote:What if everyone did that?

Free trash pickup!

Next time, just triple bag it OP. I've had trash for two weeks due to vacation, NBD! Summer weather may need some extra steps like adding baking soda on top and clean the trash can afterwards!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you do it one time, it's not a big deal.

But what if everyone did it just that once this week?

What if everyone bought their groceries at one specific Safeway on Saturdays at 10am? Wouldn't work.

What if everyone decided to play board games every week around the Columbus Memorial Fountain? Chaos.

Just because everyone can't do it doesn't make it wrong, PP. You need additional assumptions to make that case. It's not a slam dunk.

For the people who are saying it’s fine, don’t complain that the park bins are overflowing or that there are rats on the playground.

It is fine

Anonymous wrote:I think if you do it one time, it's not a big deal.

But what if everyone did it just that once this week?

I think it's fine as a one off -- you are trying to ensure very smelly trash actually gets collected today instead of in several days. If you made a habit of it, I would think it was rude, though not disgusting. It's trash, it's a trash can.

We have people in our neighborhood you will regularly just place small bags of trash that include old food and diapers in the street or on the curb. THAT is disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:How often is your trash collection? Ours is twice a week and I'd just put it in my own trash. Don't you ever throw out trash not picked up the same day? I do think it's a little rude to bring personal trash (beyond a couple wrappers from a car trip) to a public park.

If you have a week between pickups it's different than a couple days. I'm the guy who drives the last bag of trash before vacation to the dump, because I ended up cleaning maggots out of a trash can once when it was left for a week. If we had twice a week, I'd be less worried.