Yeah, I would just make it a habit to always leave the home with a trash bag and drop it on the way to wherever I’m heading. Using large trashbags makes you wait until the bag is full. Buy those small 13 gallon (or smaller) bags. I use all my grocery bags as mini trash bags hung on cupboard doors. Makes it easier.

Or zip line to your trunk and then drive it to the dumpster. Afraid to say I have in fact done this… Long rope one end tied to balcony support and the other on the support arm for the trunk then tied bags together in pairs and sent them down riding a wash cloth (i was worried friction would tear through the bags…). Then walk down and load it in the trunk, untie the car and drove it to the dumpsters like 1/4 mile away.

I did it in the middle of the night, less witnesses.

If not? Trebuchet.

In my experience, about five or six parking meters.

It’s when you are speeding down the highway and huck bags of garbage out your window, then you drive the car away. It’s the most economical way to dispose of waste because it doesn’t cost anything or end up in a landfill.

I’m guessing they live in a large sprawling suburban apartment complex whose trash facilities were designed to be out of the way and unobtrusive rather than functional and convenient.

My last apartment was in a place kind of like that. It sat on a lot that was probably about eight city blocks. For the entire complex they had eight dumpsters in four trash enclosures around the perimeter, two of which were toward the front of the complex, and the other two toward the middle. If you lived at the back of the complex you’d have to carry your trash for at least a block and a half to dispose of it. It wasn’t uncommon to see people driving to the trash enclosure with bags of trash balanced on their car’s trunk lid.

Am American and there’s not enough context to know. I’m guessing OP lives in a city, and is using “a car’s drive” to mean any distance that he doesn’t want to drag trash to. Anything longer than a city block, maybe?

I give op props, because I refuse to live anywhere that doesn’t have an in-unit washer/dryer and dishwasher, much less a place that has no elevator and no trash shoot. Fuuuuck that.

I guess, just a tad too long for an easy walk.

One American football field

The dumpster is so far away that they recommend driving a car instead of walking.

The dumpster is too far to walk to when carrying garbage bags, I’d guess.

It usually means you reside in a multi-block sized apartment complex and that the dumpsters are on one end of the complex rather than being centrally located, and your apartment is on the other end… and those distances feel doubled if it is raining, or there is snow or ice on the ground.

Holy shit that site is so bad on mobile

sensible too!

Gee, what a totally realistic suggestion

Something like this should do well as long as one doesn’t mind looking like an urban granny.

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Don’t quote me but only something like 5% of an apartment building needs to be ada accessible. So like as long as ground floor has a certain amount of ada units the higher floors don’t need to have ada access at all.