Garbage Disposal

william webster

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We burn our garden refuse and build a compost heap with our kitchen/food scraps.

Rules ?
Burn outside the house..........
 

Matilda

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No such thing as municipal garbage pickup in DR?

It depends where you are. i have been lucky enough to always have it, and they tend to be regular and on time as long as you remember to tip. You have to pay around RD$2,000 pesos a year to the local authority.

Here is a blog post I wrote on them - we call them dustbin men in English English.

What about your saucepans?: The dustbin man cometh

Matilda
 

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It depends where you are. i have been lucky enough to always have it, and they tend to be regular and on time as long as you remember to tip. You have to pay around RD$2,000 pesos a year to the local authority.

Here is a blog post I wrote on them - we call them dustbin men in English English.

What about your saucepans?: The dustbin man cometh

Matilda

LMAO at Tyson's bits!!

Good stuff :D

RD$2000 a year is a very good deal for that service. Glad it exists for you.
 

dv8

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we have garbage disposal here as well, they come twice a week. no one in our area burns the garbage apart from a bunch of idiots from la cafemba who collect heaps of rubbish right under the electricity pole with transformer on the top. then every now and then the morons burn it down. they blew the transformer 3 times already. you'd have thought they'd learn something...
 

william webster

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dont burn anything that you throw out by accident. And dont put your hand in the fire.

We had some very good hand clippers (Fiskars) that our yardman loved.
One day , he couldn't find them. We searched everywhere...

A couple of days later, in true Dominican fashion, he's still mulling it over and decides to check the burn pile.
Why? Dunno - but he must !

Yup, finds 'em.... scorched but functioning.......... he still uses them.

Thrown out by accident...see above
 

ctrob

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I agree, start a compost pile, and buy less plastic. It's killing you anyways. That stuff outgasses chemicals for something like 3 trillion years. And never burn plastic.

And if you don't have garbage pickup, go ask the Mayor what to do with it.
 

william webster

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The compost pile has been a big success w/ our workers - who questioned it at the start - it seems that the avocado pits just love it in there and take root much better than other mediums.

So, we are awash in avocado trees..... young, but aplenty

Have yet to try CB's pineapple re-rooting
 

dv8

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Compost, burn and who knows where those beer, wine and rum bottles end up. 'tis a mystery.

bottles are collected from trash bins, beaches and bushes. sold to botelleros who then sell to brugal/barcelo/presidente who all have bottle washing machines and recycle a certain percentage of bottles. those that cannot be recycled are crushed and shipped out of DR for production of new bottles. the bottles from different brands (corona, whiskey) are cleaned by botelleros themselves and sold by a box to the producers of mabi, honey and other goods.
 

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william webster

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bottles are collected from trash bins, beaches and bushes. sold to botelleros who then sell to brugal/barcelo/presidente who all have bottle washing machines and recycle a certain percentage of bottles. those that cannot be recycled are crushed and shipped out of DR for production of new bottles. the bottles from different brands (corona, whiskey) are cleaned by botelleros themselves and sold by a box to the producers of mabi, honey and other goods.

If you look, you can see that a beer bottle has been used before... slight abrasion where they bump into each other in the filling process.
Cdns see this easily from the old'Stubby' days.

Yes, they reuse and recycle in RD.... most people contribute to this cause ... we do... ours go to these 'botelloros'