Andrew Corman • November 23, 2021
Pile Of Trash — Noblesville, IN — AC Trash Hauling & More

I bet you never stopped to consider the effect of gas prices on the unglamorous task of picking up and disposing trash and junk.

Welcome to the snowball effect of the cost of fuel!!!

The attached video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJOD6aDBdAE) only scratches the surface about the transportation and movement of trash and junk. Trash hauling and removal, while labor intensive, is subject to a more volatile mark, the cost of fuel.

Most people and communities subscribe to the NIMBY factor about trash disposal and landfills. What is, NIMBY? It stands for, Not In My Back Yard. Understandably, no one wants a dump (landfill) in their backyard or community. Easily understood. Now the challenge, how does the trash you generate make the journey to the dump/landfill?  One word answer, TRUCKS.

Question next, once at the dump, how does it get treated? Simply answer, heavy equipment consisting or trucks, bull dozers, excavators, and other heavy equipment move the trash. Ah, once again this large scale Tonka Toys require fuel.

So let’s track the journey of a piece of trash. AC Trash Hauling picks up a load in your garage. It gets loaded onto our truck, then driven 15 to twenty miles to a transfer station. This is a temporary holding spot for trash. Here it gets sorted, consolidated, and loaded onto another truck. That truck journeys down the highway to a facility, Landfill, which will use heavy equipment to spread and cover with a layer of “dirt”. This action is repeated hourly and daily!! Once again the extensive need for gas and fuel.

Bottom line, not heavy on manpower, but definitely heavy on fuel consumption. A few pennies at the fuel pump gets multiplied by the number of steps it takes to put a piece of trash in the landfill.

Oh baby, a few cents at the gas pump grows rapidly in the trash disposal story.

We hope  you have a better understanding of how your trash gets handled and how expensive it really is.


#Trash Hauling  #Fuel  #Dumps #Landfills

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