Post Collapse, What to do With Your Garbage?

[shanrose]

I wondered if stores are really going to close.

 

[UserNameTaken]

Poop - We live on top of a hill overlooking town. "It" flows downhill. Not my problem.

Trash, throw it over the neighbors wall? No?

We would burn what isn't saved or composted.

As an aside, I was in a shootout my second day as a security guard during a violent garbage strike back in the 70's. People get downright testy over trash.

Funny story on that. The first day I was riding a truck. Everyone was waving and honking at us at one point. The crew was like, "Wow, people are really happy we're finally empying the trash!"

We stopped at a traffic light, and smoke engulfed us! It was one of those back loading trucks and someone threw a molatov cocktail in the bay and caught the trash on fire. The whole truck burned up!

Then the Italian guys from Waste Mgt out of New York showed up. I swear, greased hair, pin stripe suits and .45's in shoulder holsters. The violence stopped.

 

[LadyLocust]

I wondered if stores are really going to close.

My opinion because who can really tell the future. I don't think they will close, but I do think what is sold will be controlled and what stores are allowed to remain will be dictated. We've already seen it: Dol. Gen. in stores where it doesn't make sense - running out the mom and pop stores. By patronizing the $ Gen, one is handing their food liberty to the corporate giants I try to avoid lg. chains and support local whenever I can. I've yet to step foot in a DG and pray I never have to. It's been a long time comin', but hindsight is 20/20.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Post collapse, there is no garbage. Only used alternate resources.

 

[Tirediron]

The cause of the collapse would dictate what was left, and what functions, war or unrest, probably things will sort of work, When the sun pops off a big cme and if it frys things then with the current state of electronics and electrics, everything will stop for a fair while, Skills will rule.

 

[Quark]

For me just leave the garbage out and the bears and other vermin will take care of it for me.

 

[Tirediron]

For me just leave the garage out and the bears and other vermin will take care of it for me.

until they decide that you might taste good too,

 

[Quark]

until they decide that you might taste good too,

Nah Ferengis do not taste good but Ferengis do have good taste,

 

[Tootsie]

How can you melt cans? I don't think they would melt on a regular fire - unless you had some kind of incinerator. We saw one of them in someone's backyard in Arkansas when we drove through.

An occasional can in a coal stove will ‘disappear’. I don’t remember seeing anything recognizable when ashes were dumped in the driveway.
In rural Mexico not that many years ago, there was a pipe, much like a casing, just beyond the homes where things that could not be repurposed were dropped into the depths. The few empty cans were all saved. You could get creative with them. A flattened can might become a patch somewhere. Garbage was definitely not a problem in that area. Low income area, yes, but those folks were some of the happiest and healthiest I ever met.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I tore up carpeting in a 1872 house. Found a tin can patch. Underneath that tin can was evidence of a chimney fire.
Must have been chimney fire from a long gone chimney.

I put the tin can back down for future generations to ponder.

 

[LadyLocust]

I tore up carpeting in a 1872 house. Found a tin can patch. Underneath that tin can was evidence of a chimney fire.
Must have been chimney fire from a long gone chimney.

I put the tin can back down for future generations to ponder.

Could have been a lamp fire too. I would think a chimney fire would be large.
When I was a kid the metal “lids” from tin cans (think opening a can of veggies or tuna) were used to patch holes from woodpeckers.

 

[joel]

I wondered if stores are really going to close.

If stores do not close, then IMHO it not a Collapse, it is a depression.
No collapse then no SHTF, just a hard adjustment for some time.

 

[Quark]

If stores do not close, then IMHO it not a Collapse, it is a depression.
No collapse then no SHTF, just a hard adjustment for some time.

Stores are closing but that doesn't mean a collapse or even a SHTF. The collapse when it comes will be gradual and then suddenly.

 

[shanrose]

If stores do not close, then IMHO it not a Collapse, it is a depression.
No collapse then no SHTF, just a hard adjustment for some time.

I know it's hard to gauge what's ahead but from all we've seen and collectively have read, it seems like a war of some sort is coming.