Where To Dump House Rubbish/refuse?

[julesandmartin]

Where officially are we supposed to do this?

We see many green wheely bins dotted around the Ring Road, are these communal or do they belong to householders? Also same question to those wire cages.

I noticed you can buy a green wheely bin at hardware stores, if we buy one and leave it by the side of the road will it's contents automatically be collected without charge by the refuse collection service?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Rooo]

Where officially are we supposed to do this?

We see many green wheely bins dotted around the Ring Road, are these communal or do they belong to householders? Also same question to those wire cages.

I noticed you can buy a green wheely bin at hardware stores, if we buy one and leave it by the side of the road will it's contents automatically be collected without charge by the refuse collection service?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Wheelie bins on the ring road are communal & you also have the large skips. I think the wire cages are private.

[yorkie100]

Where officially are we supposed to do this?

We see many green wheely bins dotted around the Ring Road, are these communal or do they belong to householders? Also same question to those wire cages.

I noticed you can buy a green wheely bin at hardware stores, if we buy one and leave it by the side of the road will it's contents automatically be collected without charge by the refuse collection service?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Once they find out where you live a man from the Tessabaan will come around once a month and charge you 30 baht (with official receipt) for bin emptying.

Great value for money compared with my hometown where the bin men have been on strike now for 10 weeks as earning £18,000+ per annum is not enough for them.

[SantiSuk]

Where officially are we supposed to do this?

We see many green wheely bins dotted around the Ring Road, are these communal or do they belong to householders? Also same question to those wire cages.

I noticed you can buy a green wheely bin at hardware stores, if we buy one and leave it by the side of the road will it's contents automatically be collected without charge by the refuse collection service?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Once they find out where you live a man from the Tessabaan will come around once a month and charge you 30 baht (with official receipt) for bin emptying.

Great value for money compared with my hometown where the bin men have been on strike now for 10 weeks as earning £18,000+ per annum is not enough for them.

Maybe you are from Leeds. in which case - oh sh&t, all that stuff I left outside the house is still lying there

[yorkie100]

Maybe you are from Leeds. in which case - oh sh&t, all that stuff I left outside the house is still lying there

Spot on. And even when they ARE working you only get one collection a fortnight (the alternate week is the 'green' bin) unlike Samui where they collect EVERY day, so I for one am very happy with the services I get from the Tessabaan and for 30 baht a month???

Living on Samui is great and for those who disagree, well, why are you still here?

Edited November 5, 2009 by yorkie100

[samuijimmy]

Wire bins on my Soi in Maenam, are public..

Thankfully many people use them rather than dumping rubbish everywhere or burning it.... or not separating it out...

I am still working on some "farang" neighbours on that....they dump things in a hole & the dogs drag the stuff everywhere.... glass et al. ... it's not fair to the Guys who cut down the weeds & grass who get pings & cuts from glass etc.... when using their weed eaters

If you separate out your recyclables ... glass, plastic, aluminium cans, etc some one will take them and recycle without going through all the trash!

I leave my recyclable stuff in a plastic bin at my gate, it always gets picked up... now they know it will be there... generally on the week ends, it's gone.... to a better place, than the landfill

BTW..... Where does the rubbish end up that is collected, does anyone know that????

[Rooo]

BTW..... Where does the rubbish end up that is collected, does anyone know that????

Incinerator, smokeless, German made I think.

[notime]

The Samui rubbish collection story is as complex as funny. Each time I asked someone what they do with their rubbish after arriving at Samui I got evasive answers oand they would change the subject. Hence the rubbish had to be disposed off I would just take it to the closest biggish road and dump into some bin there. I always looked around and felt like a cuckoo leaving her egg in someone else’s nest doing that because I wasn't sure if the bins are private or not. In addition someone once waved to me not to leave my rubbish in their bin. Someone else told me that I may need to "give the people living near the bin some money" for allowing me to use their bin. This made me feel even worse since I hardly ever see anybody standing next to a bin collecting fees.

Well, after 3 years on Samui things are clearer to me now. It seems like one can officially order the wheelie bins from Tessaban to be placed where convenient. They don't charge for the bin but will come to your house later with a receipt and ask about 100 THB per month for the every day collection. They don't come every month maybe every 6 months. They will also try to collect some money from the houses around that are obviously also using "your" bin but it's still unclear to me what happens when they refuse to pay - probably nothing. It looks like the system is similar to the electricity use. The one who orders the line first pays for it and the others cuckoo a free ride after.

[notime]

By the way, does anyone know how to dispose of some garder refuse or construction rubble correctly?

[samuijimmy]

I found out this evening that the Green Bins in Maenam streets are for public use... & are emptied every morning at 4 am, at least at the location where we were eating...

I think if some one asks for money to use the bins, they are just hoping you might open up your wallet ....

Also noticed the other day people picking through the bins for recycable stuff.... (topic covered in another discussion already... ) Seperate recycleable stuff.... One of my pet pieves I keep repeating...

The discussion about garden waste, also mentioned before... not sure.... no one has come up with a good answer..... If small stuff compost it!

As for concrete, I think a case of finding a construction site where fill is required... but would ask first if OK to dump!

Edited November 8, 2009 by samuijimmy