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
Making more frequent, smaller trips might make it less of a pain? Maybe stop by the dumpster if it’s on the way to/from a daily route you need to take?
Yeah, I would just make it a habit to always leave the home with a trash bag and drop it on the way to wherever I’m heading. Using large trashbags makes you wait until the bag is full. Buy those small 13 gallon (or smaller) bags. I use all my grocery bags as mini trash bags hung on cupboard doors. Makes it easier.
Out of curiosity: what is a “car’s drive away” according to fellow Americans? I mean how many meters would that be?
In my experience, about five or six parking meters.
What about e-meters?
About tree fiddy e-meters
I guess, just a tad too long for an easy walk.
I’m guessing they live in a large sprawling suburban apartment complex whose trash facilities were designed to be out of the way and unobtrusive rather than functional and convenient.
My last apartment was in a place kind of like that. It sat on a lot that was probably about eight city blocks. For the entire complex they had eight dumpsters in four trash enclosures around the perimeter, two of which were toward the front of the complex, and the other two toward the middle. If you lived at the back of the complex you’d have to carry your trash for at least a block and a half to dispose of it. It wasn’t uncommon to see people driving to the trash enclosure with bags of trash balanced on their car’s trunk lid.
It’s when you are speeding down the highway and huck bags of garbage out your window, then you drive the car away. It’s the most economical way to dispose of waste because it doesn’t cost anything or end up in a landfill.
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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
You can get a cart that’s more along the lines of a hand truck - more vertically shaped. They’re often folding too, so you don’t have to take up toouch space. A regular hand truck would work too if that’s all that’s available by taking the whole trash bin rather than just loose bags
Something like this should do well as long as one doesn’t mind looking like an urban granny.
Down four flights of stairs? That’s even worse than just holding the bag.
I did forget about the stairs. In that case I’d ask OP how big the window is
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.
Find someone that lives in the complex that will be your trash valet for a small fee. Or post a listing on Craigslist for hiring your own personal trash valet.
Or start a small business and be the trash valet for your complex and make money off your chore.
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.
eh just put it all down the garbage disposal
That’s why they call it that, right?
don’t buy things that come with garbage.
Do you have access to money? It sounds like you need a drone, however if you want to fully fill your garbage bags up it will probably require a heavy lift drone. I have found a link for an agricultural drone that should suit your needs.
Lmao
Unethical solution: throw it out your window.
Ethical solution: suggest a maid service to the office that add be added to your rent a la carte
Step 1: get a box
Step 2: cut a whole in that box
Step 3: put your junk in that box
Step 4:
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Can you move? Was this not disclosed before you moved in?
