Covert dumping issues

[glatt]

Here in Arlington VA, they have an inert trash dump, where you can drop off tile, brick, concrete, etc, and they grind it up and use it for pavement or something. You have to be a county resident and can only make one free drop off per month. They record your vehicle license plate number in a binder.

Houston must have something similar?

Edit: I was curious, so I looked up the Houston rules. Looks like they have no legal solution for you. I would never urge you to break the law, but if they don't provide a legal path, then who can blame you for dealing with it the best way you know how?

[Lamplighter]

Now I am in search of a covert dumping spot since my trash guys
won't touch construction and demo waste without a large extra charge

... and we bitch about Halliburton and fracking and BP and...

CIH does have a legal way to dispose of the stuff.
It just costs him some $, but he doesn't want to pay for it.

[chrisinhouston]

OK, you guys got me going...

I had researched this in the past and was told that the city of Houston will not take any inert material like tile, cement or bricks. And my trash service charges $125 for a dumpster for this kind of stuff.

So thanks to glatt's suggestion I called the county landfill that services my area's trash companies and was told that if the tile is separate from any other construction trash they will take it for free as they crush it up for road building.

This solves my problem!

[glatt]

Excellent!

[Gravdigr]

Beats illegal dumping, by a damn sight.

I spend a lot of time in the country/woods/riverbanks, and it never ceases to piss me off when I come across a site where some jerk was to lazy/cheap to dump his shit somewhere legal/intended for such.

Any construction site would probably let you do a one time dumpster deposit. If'n ya ask nice like.

[glatt]

I agree, but government has to make it relatively easy to do legally. Around here, you have to pay $10 to have an old CRT television picked up for trash. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. That not a lot of money, but a lot of people just dump them anyway. That pisses me off.

Downtown, there are very few public restrooms, so the homeless piss on the sidewalks. Every morning, the businesses are out there with hoses, cleaning it up. I don't blame the homeless as much as I blame the government for not offering restrooms. I don't know where they go to take a shit. I don't see any shit on the sidewalks. A guy's gotta go to the bathroom, whether you make one available or not.

[chrisinhouston]

Just got back from the land fill and it was quite an adventure. I got weighed and as I did not have a yellow safety vest was issued a loaner. I was told to follow the road up the hill and look for where there was a lot of dumped concrete. The term "land fill" is a bit of a misnomer as it is more like "build a mountain out of trash and grow grass on it"

I motored up amongst the big boys in their Waste Management dump trucks of all kinds. Found a spot and dumped out all of my boxes.

Snapped this picture of my vehicle on Trash Mountain as a souvenir!