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Poll #20354 So when you take out the trash....

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 129

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How do you tie the handles?

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I cross one under the other, just like tying my shoes
93 (80.9%)

I loop them together, like tying up a loaf of bread or a pillowcase
11 (9.6%)

I don't
11 (9.6%)

Which of these terms are in your active vocabulary?

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Trash
99 (78.6%)

Garbage
98 (77.8%)

Rubbish
42 (33.3%)

How many times a month is trash pickup?

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Mean: 4.82 Median: 4 Std. Dev 3.25

0		1 (0.8%)
1		1 (0.8%)
2		8 (6.7%)
3		1 (0.8%)
4		87 (73.1%)
5		5 (4.2%)
6		1 (0.8%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		9 (7.6%)
9		0 (0.0%)
10		1 (0.8%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		1 (0.8%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		0 (0.0%)
19		0 (0.0%)
20		4 (3.4%)

Do you have curbside recycling?

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Yes - metal, plastic, glass, and paper
95 (74.2%)

Yes - but not all those things
19 (14.8%)

No, but we can take them to collection events and drop-offs
9 (7.0%)

No
5 (3.9%)

Curbside compost?

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Yes!
37 (29.1%)

Yes, but only certain times of year
7 (5.5%)

No, but we have drop-off points for scraps
6 (4.7%)

Yes, but only certain times of year AND we have drop-off points for scraps year-round
4 (3.1%)

No
73 (57.5%)

Who pays for all this, anyway?

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We do
60 (46.9%)

The city/state does
38 (29.7%)

IDK
19 (14.8%)

Other
11 (8.6%)

Ticky?

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TICKY!
108 (100.0%)

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Comments

[stardreamer]

The kind that hotels use in their big trash cans -- translucent and just open at the top. The bags are much larger than our kitchen can, but that gives us enough leeway that stuff doesn't spill out when we pull the bag out of the can. We could tie a knot in the excess, but we generally don't.

For smaller wastebaskets around the house, we recycle plastic bags from the grocery, drugstore, etc. the one next to my computer takes the larger Target bags, or others of a similar size. Aside from the bags for the kitchen can and the heavy black ones for yard waste / the litterbox*, we haven't bought a trash bag in well over a decade.

* We have 7 cats. The litterbox is 2 cement-mixing trays, one inserted into a black trash bag and then nested into the other. Dumping the litterbox is then a matter of lifting the top tray out and inverting the bag -- no touching of litter required, and spills are rare.