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On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by rwallace »

elmuchoprez wrote: post #41

As a Midwestern suburbanite, I don't think I understand this service. When it comes to trash removal, the city already comes around once per week and collects whatever I put out there. The cost of this is baked into my city taxes and can't be opted out of so far as I know. There may be some technical limit as to how much they'll take at once, but I've never hit it. They even come around and take big stuff, like couch…

I can't speak to the US, but here in Ireland the city does no such thing, so we would love to have this service! Creators thereof, please consider expanding over here. You'd get a lot of customers at double or quadruple your current price.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by zo1 »

jarnix wrote: post #2

In Paris it's free, you just have to go on this website and tell what you are throwing away: https://teleservices.paris.fr/sira/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page=... BTW in the URL: "&form=ramen" I suppose that the developer was hungry.

Is this a company? A government service? More info, please?

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by zo1 »

pocketstar wrote: post #27

"Currently in the San Francisco Bay Area." Does not pick up in Palo Alto, Mountain View or Foster City. That's the just few addresses I've tried. A service area map would be helpful.

Also, the whole thing is on a *.com domain and yet from your comment only services a portion of a single city? I am disappointed.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by fragmede »

They just updated their text and dropped San Francisco from the list of supported areas. Currently they are only in Berkeley.

I would use this service. I easily have couple bag of not-quite-trash that wants to be dealt with. But really, what are they going to do with an old Nokia cellphone charger? Or a 24" LCD monitor with DVI and VGA input but the HDMI input is broken. Or slightly damaged clothes with rivets and zippers I keep meaning to repair but have never gotten around it, so might as well throw out.

For $5, I can't imagine I'll get any sort of post-processing report about what they got out of my crap or what they managed to do with it.

Hell, I've got a bunch of crap that I keep meaning to put up for sale on ebay/craigslist that I never get to. I doubt I'm alone in that regard.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by oxtopus »

shostack wrote: post #48
oxtopus wrote: post #38

In Mountain View, and likely elsewhere in the Bay Area, charitable organizations make the rounds once a month to basically do the same. They provide the bags, collect them, and presumably sell what they can for cash. As for batteries and other hazardous materials, there's a protocol to have the city pick them up for no charge. I've never had a problem getting rid of stuff and feeling like I'm doing it responsibly. It…

Any links you can share to these services? Will have a bunch of stuff to give away soon and I'm not familiar with the various organizations in MV that help with this.

http://donatedav.org/donation-pickup.html

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by shostack »

oxtopus wrote: post #56
shostack wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any links you can share to these services? Will have a bunch of stuff to give away soon and I'm not familiar with the various organizations in MV that help with this.

http://donatedav.org/donation-pickup.html

That's awesome, thanks for the link! Are there other non-profits that have similar services or just DAV?

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by kubiiii »

declan wrote: post #24

This really could be Uber for trash. I pay something like $50 a month for trash collection services, or around $12 a week. That includes yard waste and recycling. If I can fit my trash and recycling into two bags per week and find something else to do with my yard waste, I'll save money by using GoodAndTidy for weekly trash pickup. I like their website and the idea, but it seems like a service that may have trouble b…

You are right, I think it's the only way to expand this kind of service, and the reason why they require the bags to fit in a sedan.

We can even imagine an uberpop for thrash with untrained people driving and destroying their car with thrash, and picking up hazardous wastes such as asbestos and everything that should be highly regulated instead.

If there is room for improvement the solution is always an uber for X because people have cars and people need money.

To be a little bit more constructive, there are already lots of convenient ways to get rid of stuff we don't want anymore, most of them requiring some time investment. But that's not so bad since owning and getting rid of stuff should come at a price. A price we generally dont pay when buying stuff (the recycling tax for electric stuff in Europe is a joke for example).

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by cafard »

The District of Columbia gives each household a couple of large-item pickups every year. (Large item example--old storm windows, say 4 feet by 2.5.) Latex paint, as someone remarks, can be allowed to dry out and dumped with regular garbage. The Fort Totten transfer station accepts nastier stuff--solvents, oil-based paint, electronics--one Saturday every month. And with Goodwill on South Dakota Ave. NE and Community Forklift in Hyattsville one can get get rid of pretty much anything still usable.
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