Where to throw away various debris: broken furniture, rotten wood, etc....

[bamboozled]

Hi folks, besides the obvious side of the road, where might I properly dispose of some refuse that I need to get rid of? Mostly old rotten particle board (from cheap furniture) and bamboo pieces that are too big for the normal bin.

Thank you.

[Olmate]

No vacant land in your soi? 

[proton]

Our bin men take anything, even a front door sawn in half once, why not ask them to take it?

[itsari]

What i do is cut up the furniture to a size that will fit into a 36x28 plastic bag . I do not make each bag weigh too much as the rubbish collectors will not take the bag . I avoid putting many bags at the same time and wait until the next collection days .

I sometimes use stronger bags that are more costly . The collectors like that as they will recover the bags and sell them .

[it is what it is]

4 minutes ago, itsari said:

What i do is cut up the furniture to a size that will fit into a 36x28 plastic bag . I do not make each bag weigh too much as the rubbish collectors will not take the bag . I avoid putting many bags at the same time and wait until the next collection days .

I sometimes use stronger bags that are more costly . The collectors like that as they will recover the bags and sell them .

 

think; the great escape

[bamboozled]

Thanks folks. Yes, I might do the cut up multiple bag thing. My soi is only 200 m long so lot a lot of vacant lots. I'd like to avoid doing something like that.

 

Looks like I'm in for an upper body workout: 1000 reps of sawing.

[marin]

When we trim our trees of have more than the normal we often offer say 200 baht for them to take away the extra. Been here over 20 years and done it a few times so they are aware. Never a no. 

[Heng]

26 minutes ago, itsari said:

What i do is cut up the furniture to a size that will fit into a 36x28 plastic bag . I do not make each bag weigh too much as the rubbish collectors will not take the bag . I avoid putting many bags at the same time and wait until the next collection days .

I sometimes use stronger bags that are more costly . The collectors like that as they will recover the bags and sell them .

This is the way.  It's amazing how some people just put a whole sofa or table set right next to the trash cans assuming they'll somehow be able to get compact it on site.      

[Doctor Tom]

40 minutes ago, proton said:

Our bin men take anything, even a front door sawn in half once, why not ask them to take it?

I leave whatever is broken outside of my gate and it always goes, sometimes within minutes . Thai's are expert in mending, recycling, utilizing, selling on anything you have to give them, broken or not.  

[greenmonkey]

Round where we live we have disposed of many items in the past by keeping an eye out for people that are preparing land for building. The first thing they do is fill the land with people's junk (before piling mud on top), they put a sign up and invite anyone to bring their rubbish and dump it. Every few months we see this happening and if we have any junk to get rid of we take the opportunity.

[Captain Monday]

I don't know about construction waste, I just tell one of the condo maids. 

 

TV with screen issues (not worth repair cost IMHO), broken appliances, unwanted furniture.

 

As long as it is free it is gone. 

 

When I needed to gut out the used condo I had bought I told "my fren me" next day men from her village came with a truck and took everything no charge.

 

Other than a bed, an unfashionable style breakfront with glass doors I doubted anything was usable.

 

A bunch of ghastly old built in furniture torn off the walls?  Thailand can be amazing in my country you have to pay to get rid of stuff like that.

[bamboozled]

I did the "break it all up and put in bags" method. It's still sitting there at the end of my street but eventually it will go. It wasn't as bad as I had predicted.

 

Thanks all for the input!