South Everett has this thing about garbage, and it’s a real hassle for most of the complexes wishing to build there. In short it says that you can only have ONE single, central place for dumpsters. You can imagine how tricky this gets.
Why, at Heatherwood Apartments in Mill Creek, Washington alone, there are apartments fully 1/4 mile from the dumpsters, so how do landlords deal with it in ways that keep the tenants happy?
Equity Apartments has a number of properties in this area, and the way they deal with it is by saying you can just put your trash in front of your door 5-nights a week so the little golf cart can come by and deal with it for you. I mean, that makes more sense than making you figure out a way to get trash from your door step to the dumpster a good quarter mile away, right?
It’s only a few extra dollars a month, and no one complains because the service is so wonderful. Never deal with overflowing dumpsters or when to bring what how far, right?
Heatherwood Apartments takes a slightly different approach. Though they bill themselves as the very pinnacle of Lifestyle with Disiability accomodations, they actually expect you, me and everyone (even those who are elderly or otherwise infirmed) to deliver their own trash to the dumpster, no matter how far away it is.
We tried paying the nieghbor kids to do it for us (they asked, we accepted) but they just scattered the trash all over the complex, and despite our inability to get a refund, we were left picking it all back up to drop it off.
At all hours of the day and night you’ll surely see cars driving from far away locations with bags of trash on their hoods and trunks delivering their waste to the dumpster. Mind you, it’s almost always full, and you can’t put anything of any size in it (we tried to put in a broken-down desk, but they said the pieces were too large, though they would fit, and that we’d have to drive it somewhere else to get rid of it.)
Call me bitter, but shouldn’t I be able to live in a place where I don’t have to drive my garbage to the dump? If I’m already driving it that far, why not take it to the gas station or supermarket? At least those places understand and accept my business, and accept me for my quirks, even if it isn’t their job… but isn’t it my apartment’s job to take my garbage? I used to think it was, but at Heatherwood Apartments, I guess it isn’t.
Tags: driving, garbage, inconvenience, nuissance, refuse, throw-away, trash, waste