i cannot possibly express how much of a gigantic pain in the ass this is; it’s making more more slovenly than i want to be because it’s such an inconvenience to throw stuff away.
like should i buy a hand truck? that wouldn’t help for garbage bags
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Holy shit that site is so bad on mobile
When did we decide it was okay to open the play store without user input?
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Yeah Firefox prompted me as well, sadly cancel still doesn’t let you view this and is just an endless loop. Weird that they insist this much on using the app that the other option is useless… I’m guessing only non mobile version works ok.
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sensible too!
Gonna be honest I have no idea what a cars drive away is. But 4 staircases sounds like a lot, so is there a way to just a sail it out the window onto the car? And if it’s about the distance a bike with a cart on the back has helped me a ton for trash and groceries personally.
Is the dumpster within line of sight? If so, zip line.
If not? Trebuchet.
Trebuchet! Trebuchet! Trebuchet!
Or zip line to your trunk and then drive it to the dumpster. Afraid to say I have in fact done this… Long rope one end tied to balcony support and the other on the support arm for the trunk then tied bags together in pairs and sent them down riding a wash cloth (i was worried friction would tear through the bags…). Then walk down and load it in the trunk, untie the car and drove it to the dumpsters like 1/4 mile away.
I did it in the middle of the night, less witnesses.
My idea: Buy a big trash can with wheels and a lid that seals. If no wheels then add wheels by strapping it to a hand truck. Add trash until full then empty in dumpster. Small bags into large can then large can into dumpster.
Also, you did not mention recycling. How does that work where you are? Most of my waste goes into recycling.
Window.
What does “the dumpster is a car’s drive away” mean?
It usually means you reside in a multi-block sized apartment complex and that the dumpsters are on one end of the complex rather than being centrally located, and your apartment is on the other end… and those distances feel doubled if it is raining, or there is snow or ice on the ground.
The dumpster is so far away that they recommend driving a car instead of walking.
That’s the obvious interpretation.
If it is the correct interpretation, in what country is this legal? I’d be getting the tenants together to take the landlord(s) to court, if that is the correct interpretation and it is a country with laws about this sort of thing. But I don’t know if it is the correct interpretation or what country we’re talking about.
The US has very anti-tenant leanings in the judiciary, and bureaucracy overall.
So does every capitalist country. It’s very hard to imagine it being legal to rent an apartment without providing trash disposal.
Are we talking an actual car’s drive, or a USians idea of a distance that cannot be walked?
Yes. Europeans will walk 3 miles for a coffee, but consider 3 hours a long drive. Americans will drive 100 ft to take out trash, but will drive for 12 hours straight to leave their state.
Likely the latter.
How is it possible for your building not to have an elevator up/down those four floors? I thought ADA would mandate that.
Don’t quote me but only something like 5% of an apartment building needs to be ada accessible. So like as long as ground floor has a certain amount of ada units the higher floors don’t need to have ada access at all.
That’s terrible. I’m imagining moving mattresses and couches in… yikes.
I’ve only lived on a second floor once. Lucky my sister had strange guy friends to help with that stuff.
Zipline
eh just put it all down the garbage disposal
That’s why they call it that, right?
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There’s always a way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhYEOG9LOIk
Can you move? Was this not disclosed before you moved in?
There’s a guy that throws his trash out the window on TikTok. If it makes it in the can it’s a good week and if he misses it’s a bad week. Calls it the garboscope. My point here is that you can at least skip the stairs
To add to the other comments: try to reduce how much stuff you generate that needs to be thrown in the dumpster. Of course, from the sounds of things, juggling a small bag of trash plus a bin of paper, a bin of plastic, a bin of glass and a bin of all other recyclables would be even more of a headache. Maybe start up a program with the other tenants who must be having the same issues?
its good exercise, you could get a shopping cart thing and use it for the trash bags.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!