A short trip to the transfer station...

[garbagekid1]

great post! there was a lot of trucks when you went. what day was this?

haha there was more EDCO trucks than EDI trucks :D

those were some beautiful maxons! i wonder where those operate!

this going into my faves :)

[lahluv]

3/21/2009. this was made exactly 2 years ago

[staintedcards]

the landfill would have been cheaper prolly 20 bucks

[stuntedcards]

the stuff they recycle goes too LA the green waste is fed into a big chipper machine then they use that too cover the trash at the landfills or they sell it too the public for your plants and garden its a big operation out by me

[Griffencph]

For some reason I can't get my video response to work, but there's a vid at my channel called "Re: A short trip...etc - Our transfers" that I intended to link. It's a 16 sec view of one of the transfers (called container sites / "containerpladser") we service.

[Trashman242]

looks like it works now, I see it as a response now...

[Griffencph]

Yeah, I saw it yesterday, don't know what happened...

[trashman243]

thoses are what edco trucks look like some of those com to my house

[LUISP1957]

is that the edco transfer in san diego? also, how much was it?

[Trashman242]

35 bucks and this was the transfer station in Escondido on Washington St.

[Griffencph]

Is the system that everybody pay by weight, and is that both for companies and private people?

Here everybody pays through the tax for the right to use the municipal container sites - that means that you in theory have unlimited access to those sites.

It is up to the munic. to set the regulations. I know of some pay-areas, but then the tax is relatively lower.

[Trashman242]

I have no idea about junk removal companies etc. but everyone else pays by weight, excluding the trucks of course

[Griffencph]

Over here trucks are not allowed at municipal transfers. Most places allow vans and pick-ups eventually with trailer at max 3.5 tonne total weight. They usually have no restrictions on how many times you can come, though...

Everything must be sorted into containers of different fractions, and those will be hauled to suitable dumps, incinerators or recycling sites.

[Trashman242]

Yeah they have the trash dropped in one area, ont he other side of that room they put the greens (yard waste), and in a different room they drop all the recycling, and they sort it out right there on conveyors. Not sure what they do with the sorted recycling, as well as greens, but I know that they push the trash into an opening where larger trucks are waiting underneath.

[Trashman242]

(Contd.) They then drive to the landfill about 40 minutes south of here where the trailer is lifted onto a platform that tips to empty the trailer.

[trashman243]

no its not its Escondido transfer edcos looks different, thats my comany

[200103511]

What a rip off. It is probably environmentalists (I know, the MENTAL in enviroMENTALists fits perfectly), that are wanting the price put up.

[Trashman242]

HAHAH yeah my uncle was pretty pissed afterwards about that price...good thing I stopped recording!

[whammy9531]

I wish I want to get rid of the old junkie stuff: like old matresses and broken viral PC's..

[ThaThunderStorm]

I'm in Amrep Heaven! Lovely video, seen any STS FLs here?

[Trashman242]

No only Maxons and Heils

[ThaThunderStorm]

It's amazing how similar in design Maxons and Amreps are.

[Trashman242]

yeah, maxons, amreps, and edges. The maxons have a large radius for the angles on their body so you can pretty much tell them apart. But Amrep vs. Edge...I'm not so good

[garbageboycd]

That was cool!

[Trashman242]

it rarely ever isn't a cool trip to go to the local transfer station...especially at prime unloading time! (around 3:30-4:00)