Thread: What's Your Dumpster Policy?

Do you allow tenants to use them? Do you have a security camera on the area?

How do you keep tenants from leaving trash behind?

I have a sign that says "No Dumping, this area is under 24 hour surveillance".

We don't let people dump, we even took that smaller trash cans off the property when we took over 3 years ago.

If they break our No Dumping law, we hunt them down and charge their account a fee proportionate to what they dumped.

You hauled it in...
You haul it out!

We are not the local dump.

Originally Posted by Gina6k

You hauled it in...
You haul it out!

We are not the local dump.

Amen, sister!

We simply don't have a dumpster, too many people would take advantage of it.

We have a sign that states Video Surveilance so that usually deters any 'huge items' but on occasion when a customer comes in and asks to use the dumpster we simply ask what and how much they are getting rid of and if its not to much we allow them to. However if it is something useable we are working with a local freecycle group to save those items from the landfill! We had a woman last month who was so happy that we allowed her to leave a very old stereo 'table' thing and put some boxes in the dumpster that she was in tears as her situation for moving in/out of storage was a sad one. As long as we can handle the amount of things one wants to 'dump' we don't mind. Make a customer happy because they will return and save very useable things from the landfill!!

My policy is "No dumpsters or publicly accessible trash bins onsite." Otherwise tenants will dump their trash and I will be responsible for the time and cost of disposal.

As Gina said:

You hauled it in...
You haul it out!

- Michael

Even though we are pretty easy going on the dumpster deal - I DO LOVE Ginas theory but we try to offer as much customer service as we can, since, like many we are not swamped at the moment.

I keep wondering if Gina works for us


I tell everyone -- it's your stuff not mine take it with you 'cos I don't want it!


Every once in a while someone wants to "give" me their "good" stuff! If it were "good" stuff you would be keeping it and selling it!!!!

Actually (here as always different in other locations) people DO give away 'good' stuff and as much as I know its a pain to 'oversee' others junk - there are MANY out there in freecycle (in our area) that are more than happy to take 'all' that we have. You either take it all or nothing and if you show up and say "I don't need that but i need this" you do not get considered next time. It works well with us.