Phoenix and in-ground trash receptacles full of water (Sun City, Green Valley: condos, home)

[Valley Native]

Underground garbage receivers are a relic of the past, and they were pretty common in certain Phoenix area subdivisions before the 1980s. At the time, garbage collection basically consisted of two guys on the truck: the driver and the collector. The collector would jump off the truck, pick up the trash cans and dump the garbage in the truck. (There were no barrels and no recylcing, just regular garbage cans.) Empty cans were left on the curbs so that the homeowners could simply put them in the underground receptacles. They looked very much like these:
https://untappedcities.com/2016/09/2...-waste-in-nyc/

[wit-nit]

Originally Posted by Valley Native

Underground garbage receivers are a relic of the past, and they were pretty common in certain Phoenix area subdivisions before the 1980s. At the time, garbage collection basically consisted of two guys on the truck: the driver and the collector. The collector would jump off the truck, pick up the trash cans and dump the garbage in the truck. (There were no barrels and no recylcing, just regular garbage cans.) Empty cans were left on the curbs so that the homeowners could simply put them in the underground receptacles. They looked very much like these:
https://untappedcities.com/2016/09/2...-waste-in-nyc/

^^^Those in ground garbage cans in the above web photos are exactly what are used throughout the Sun Cities. They are left in the ground with the lid cover kept on to keep predators from knocking them over and creating a mess. The trash company Parks and Sons picks up trash twice a week. The trash men jump off the back of the trash trucks go to your driveway lift the lid and pull the inner can out then dump the trash into their barrels, then they replace your can back into the ground. After filling up their barrels they then dump the trash into the trash truck container.
Recyclables are picked up every other week in separate containers left on the driveway near the street.

[thinkalot]

Originally Posted by Burning Madolf

When I saw them for the first time here I was shocked. We used to have them in some towns in the Boston metro area when I was a little kid. They were for garbage. Trash went in your regular barrel. They had separate trucks/men come into the yard to empty them.
I tell my renters in SCG they're actually pretty convenient. You fill a grocery store bag with your trash from dinner every night and drop it in the pale. Never have to worry about trash day or moving a barrel to the street.

Is there a difference between garbage and trash?

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by Valley Native

Underground garbage receivers are a relic of the past, and they were pretty common in certain Phoenix area subdivisions before the 1980s. At the time, garbage collection basically consisted of two guys on the truck: the driver and the collector. The collector would jump off the truck, pick up the trash cans and dump the garbage in the truck. (There were no barrels and no recylcing, just regular garbage cans.) Empty cans were left on the curbs so that the homeowners could simply put them in the underground receptacles. They looked very much like these:
https://untappedcities.com/2016/09/2...-waste-in-nyc/

So weird! I am glad they are a thing of the past. How ugly.

[MalteseJane]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

So weird! I am glad they are a thing of the past. How ugly.

not as ugly as the garbage bins sitting at the curb on trash days. And no need to run after the bins rolling down the street on a stormy day.

[MalteseJane]

Originally Posted by 4khansen

Had a good rain last night and just moved to AZ from the Midwest. Our in-ground trash/recycling receptacles are full with water and the ground is really saturated around the receptacles themselves.


Any suggestions? Do I try to bucket the water out? I've take the inner receptacle out but the outer one, I don't believe, is normally removed. I assume some of the water is in the receptacle because the ground is so saturated. There were lids on the receptacles but they still filled to the brim.


Not sure what to do?

In 11 years we have been here we never had a problem with water in the in-ground receptacle but I have read on Next door that a few people have this problem. So you are not the only one. Wish I could tell you what to do. We have pavers around the receptacles.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by Valley Native

Underground garbage receivers are a relic of the past, and they were pretty common in certain Phoenix area subdivisions before the 1980s. At the time, garbage collection basically consisted of two guys on the truck: the driver and the collector. The collector would jump off the truck, pick up the trash cans and dump the garbage in the truck. (There were no barrels and no recylcing, just regular garbage cans.) Empty cans were left on the curbs so that the homeowners could simply put them in the underground receptacles. They looked very much like these:
https://untappedcities.com/2016/09/2...-waste-in-nyc/

I miss those days when we just put our cans and boxes and whatever out and they took them. This was in the late 90s in my neighborhood. But progress and mechanization has taken over and we have the big ugly things now.

My MIL still has those in-ground things. She doesn't really have enough room to store one of the big trash bins we have now. Lifting a heavy bag up to the height of the trash bin would be hard for many elderly women (and men), so that's an advantage to the in ground system. And with all the coyotes that run around Sun City, cans in the alley would be out of the question.

[DetroitN8V]

I find it odd that you have to bend down to the ground to throw away your trash in the communities where people most often have trouble bending down. I'm nowhere near Sun City age, and I'm glad I don't have to do that.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

I find it odd that you have to bend down to the ground to throw away your trash in the communities where people most often have trouble bending down. I'm nowhere near Sun City age, and I'm glad I don't have to do that.

They don't. They step on a handle, the lid opens and they DROP. I do pity the poor guy who has to lift those cans out all day.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

They don't. They step on a handle, the lid opens and they DROP. I do pity the poor guy who has to lift those cans out all day.

Ah that makes more sense! Now I'm jealous.