Donnahill's List: dumpster_xmas

Why would anyone need Christmas roll off dumpsters? A better question to ask may be when would someone need Christmas roll off dumpsters? The answer is quite simple; whenever you are generating more waste material than you can handle with your regular garbage pickup. Will a regular waste management or garbage collection company be able to supply Christmas roll off dumpsters? Sometimes they, can but not always. Dumpster Rental Direct, however, will always be able to deliver the Christmas roll off dumpsters that your task at hand calls for and always at a price that you can afford.

  

At Dumpster Rental Direct we specialize in providing Christmas roll off dumpsters. Our roll off and construction dumpster dispatch staff is well trained to answer all of your questions courteously and professionally. Gone are the days of rude roll off dumpster phone attendants and answering service. When you call Dumpster Rental Direct you will be instantly connected to an expert who thoroughly understands Christmas roll off dumpsters. At Dumpster Rental Direct, our pride is our people, and we strive for excellence in everything we do. Don't place your trust in any other dumpster company when you need the best Christmas roll off dumpsters. Dumpster Rental Direct can handle any job, large or small. When you order Christmas roll off dumpsters from Dumpster Rental Direct, you can rest assured that your order will be handled expediently and with great care.

Christmas is coming soon. Recycle your Christmas tree.   

 

  As soon as Christmas is over, countless Christmas trees are dumped on sidewalks, to be picked up with the household waste by Municipal Waste Management companies and burned in incinerators. This process, which is costly for the community, involves the waste of a raw material that could benefit the soil. Some towns collect the trees for composting. In Georgia, more than 135 communities and organizations sponsored a Bring One for the Chipper Christmas tree composting event. Over the last 15 years, the program has recycled almost 4 million trees.

If your local authority does not collect Christmas trees, ask if it can arrange to do so. If you are in Georgia you can get more information from a local private waste hauling services companies, for example,    Dumpster Rentals in Atlanta    , GA or    Dumpster Rentals in Augusta    , GA. Also, consider alternatives, like a potted Christmas tree that can later be planted in the garden.

Grocery stores dumping their goods provide me with a free lunch, and the film was certainly a fun project. But the documentary showcases a huge problem—food waste. Every year in the United States, we throw away 96 billion pounds of food. That’s 263 million pounds a day, 11 million pounds an hour, 3,000 pounds per second!

  

All in all, Americans throw out a whopping one-half of the food we produce and import. This wastefulness coexists with a devastating recession and record numbers of Americans dependent on food stamps—one in eight of us, to be exact. Our propensity to waste has now reached beyond our means to do so, and yet we keep up the bad habit even while our neighbors go hungry.

 

As for the environmental impacts, a 2009 study found that food waste in our country accounts for 300 million barrels of oil and 25 percent of our freshwater supply every year. That oil and water are used to produce food that winds up in landfills, rots, and produces methane, a greenhouse gas 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide. And if you know anything about meat production, genetically modified crops, pesticides, soil degradation, and global warming, you undoubtedly have an unsettling picture of how destructive wasting food is—because you know how destructive producing it is.

I will describe the special case of holiday dumpster diving in a separate blog. The best days of the year to dumpster dive are December 26 and January 2. You don’t even have to really even dive a dumpster or leave your vehicle; just drive up and down the streets and alleys and pick stuff up. It is like a solid month of Christmas. Christmas lights for scrap are delivered throughout the spring. This is the best time of the year for cardboard.

Our one-year plus survival dumpstering experiment leads us to this: If and when we ever have money, we will continue to retrieve food that is otherwise destined for the landfill.