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City of Houston won't pick up your lawn clippings any more

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  1. droxford

    droxford Member

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    .. unless you use the specific biodegradable bags that the city is selling.

    Starting February 1st, the city will stop picking up your lawn clippings if you bag them in plastic bags that you purchased at WalMart, Costco, etc. The cost for the new bags will range from $6.99 to $7.99 for a box of ten.

    I'm absolutely livid at this. This is direct evidence of city corruption.

    Now I have to find a way to hack the city trash system.


    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6794996.html

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/memorial/news/6799526.html
     
    #1 droxford, Jan 6, 2010
  2. Shovel Face

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    Buy a mulching lawn mower and burn your leaves at night.
     
    #2 Shovel Face, Jan 6, 2010
  3. droxford

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    I have a mower that mulches, but I have an oak tree and mulching oak leaves is very bad for your lawn because of the acidity of the leaves (they have something called Tannin in them).

    Also...

    This November my tree dumped all its leaves at once. In one day, I filled 19 bags of leaves. That would be $16 worth of bags in one day with the new bags. THAT SUCKS!
     
    #3 droxford, Jan 6, 2010
  4. Shovel Face

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    Hmmmm - I mulched mine for the last 10 years and never heard of that haha. My yard even improved.
     
    #4 Shovel Face, Jan 6, 2010
  5. JuanValdez

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    I think this is great news. It will make our waste service more efficient, improve the environment, and lower costs for the city and ultimately the tax-payer.

    One day? Isn't that more like one year? Your tree will only shed it's leaves once per year. If that only costs you $16, I don't know what you're complaining about. Actually filling all those bags is ten times the burden that paying for them is.
     
    #5 JuanValdez, Jan 6, 2010
  6. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    Just put it in old boxes or fold each leaf carefully and put em in a pillow case or old vcr. Really stick it to em.
     
    #6 Ziggy, Jan 6, 2010
  7. Blake

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    I have no problem with this.
     
    #7 Blake, Jan 6, 2010
  8. thegary

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    seems a step in the right direction. i was just down in houston and it was appalling that recycling is still some exotic notion down there.
     
    #8 thegary, Jan 6, 2010
  9. Depressio

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    That's what you get when you put a lesbian in power. Freakin' green bags.

    /sarcasm
     
    #9 Depressio, Jan 6, 2010
  10. juicystream

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    We haven't been allowed to put leaves in bags where I live for as long as I can remember. We had to leave them in piles by the road and they were periodically picked up.
     
    #10 juicystream, Jan 6, 2010
  11. BEAT LA

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    I wonder who lobbied for this.
     
    #11 BEAT LA, Jan 6, 2010
  12. Shovel Face

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    Keep Houston real.
     
    #12 Shovel Face, Jan 6, 2010
  13. Hilltopper

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    I will buy the bags and put my unwanted chemical waste and syringes in the middle of the leaves.
     
    #13 Hilltopper, Jan 6, 2010
  14. thegary

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    what does that mean?
     
    #14 thegary, Jan 6, 2010
  15. Vinsanity

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    We have cats urinating on BBQ grills and now $16 per year for leaf bags??? This city is going down the tubes! :)
     
    #15 Vinsanity, Jan 6, 2010
  16. Shovel Face

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    Recycling Yankees suck.
     
    #16 Shovel Face, Jan 6, 2010
  17. thegary

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    so you "mess with texas"?
     
    #17 thegary, Jan 6, 2010
  18. Shovel Face

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    No, I throw my trash away, not on the highway. Yankee-like smoking, transfat and gun bans etc are messing with Texas culture much much more.

    Die hippies die.

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    #18 Shovel Face, Jan 6, 2010
  19. BigSherv

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    i am down to do this but 7 bucks for 10 bags???
     
    #19 BigSherv, Jan 6, 2010
  20. Mr. Brightside

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    It was Houston So Real. But then the site shutdown when the guy got a job at SXSW.
     
    #20 Mr. Brightside, Jan 6, 2010
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