This is a Gas Station, Not a Landfill

[Justin]

For whatever reason, people seem to think that the trash cans at their local grocery store's gas station are the equivalent to a dump. I assure you, dear reader, they are not. You see, not only is it not a dump (You can tell by the lack of garbage trucks), but the trash cans are not equipped to handle large amounts of trash. We use the garbage bags the company provides us, which of course have as much rip protection as a wet napkin.

Sure, you may think it's convenient to have a trash can right next to the pump, so that you may "empty the bowels of your soccer mommobile", but a limit must be drawn if it takes you more then two trips to do so. It is a receptacle for you to throw away things, such as coffee cups and burger wrappers, not a weeks worth of fast food garbage.

By the by, a few things you really shouldn't be throwing away at a gas stations trash can:

Beer bottles (Why you have these in your car, I don't know. But it concerns me greatly)

Unopened cases of soda (I don't even...)

Shower Curtain Rods (I wish I was making that up >_<)

Strollers (Baby free, thankfully)

Used diapers (Ew. Just ew)

[Dave1982]

I'll admit that I've done stuff like this before......at a local carwash that has extra large trash barrels for just this sort of scenario. Otherwise I'll drag one of my own trash barrels over to my car to clean it out (yes, my car gets very messy).

[ralerin]

It is a receptacle for you to throw away things, such as coffee cups and burger wrappers, not a weeks worth of fast food garbage.

I find this quite sad. I find it very sad that there are people out there who are too busy to cook, cannot cook or don't even want to cook and instead opt to eat fast food for every meal.

[zombiequeen]

I keep a trash bag in the car, when it gets full it goes in the dumpster, or if we're out, the store's outside garbage cans. However, this is a grocery plastic bag of garbage...my father in law's buick regal has filled my parent's large dumpster (which, improbably, has more volume than the car has total)before.

[Racket_Man]

By the by, a few things you really shouldn't be throwing away at a gas stations trash can:

Beer bottles (Why you have these in your car, I don't know. But it concerns me greatly)

Unopened cases of soda (I don't even...)

Shower Curtain Rods (I wish I was making that up >_<)

Strollers (Baby free, thankfully)

Used diapers (Ew. Just ew)

try having someone dump the following at a gas station
1. a semi-working laser printer (found next to the vacumn cleaner but it was rendered dead by the rain storm)
2. a BIG dildo (realistic and BIG) (again left by the vacumn cleaner)
3. dead car batteries
4. bodily fluids excreted or extruded from ALL orafices both intake and output
5. various large and unuseable car parts including rims and tires

[searssoulslave]

I know the used diapers thing is gross, but where TO put them then if not in the garbage can? I mean if your kid goes in the car and you change him you REALLY don't want that thing in the car. Trust me.

[Jay 2K Winger]

We had this kid dump a bunch of old school textbooks in the trashcans in our vestibule at the wholesale club. I caught him trying to dump them in the one right by the main door, I told him "You can't dump those here."

So he went to the end of the vestibule, where I couldn't see him, and dumped them there.

[Victory Sabre]

Someone once threw cement bricks into our trash can, SEVERAL CEMENT BRICKS.

Also someone once threw the bottom of a fireplace (the metal thingie where the wood sits on) into our trash can.

We've had someone throw several bags of beer cans and bottles by the trash cans.

Last week I got an early Christmas present: some jack hole dropped of a box full of cleaning chemicals, used paint, and motor oil by the dumpster.

[Justin]

I find this quite sad. I find it very sad that there are people out there who are too busy to cook, cannot cook or don't even want to cook and instead opt to eat fast food for every meal.

From the sheer amount of laziness I've seen, it doesn't surprise me one bit -_-

We had this kid dump a bunch of old school textbooks in the trashcans in our vestibule at the wholesale club. I caught him trying to dump them in the one right by the main door, I told him "You can't dump those here."

So he went to the end of the vestibule, where I couldn't see him, and dumped them there.

Why not take them for yourself and sell them?

[Hyndis]

I'll admit that I've done stuff like this before......at a local carwash that has extra large trash barrels for just this sort of scenario. Otherwise I'll drag one of my own trash barrels over to my car to clean it out (yes, my car gets very messy).

Its different at car washes. Most dedicated car washing places have a station before the actual wash where you can tidy up the interior of the car, including using a vacuum cleaner and with large garbage bins. As its a full service car wash they also clean the inside of your car as well, and this gives you a chance to go over it and get rid of anything embarrassing or ensure no valuables are just laying around.

[jedimaster91]

I keep a plastic grocery bag in my car as a trash bag. When it gets full, I tie it up and toss it in the trash. Sometimes my trash bin at home, sometimes at the gas station. At least it's in one nice little package for ya.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

try having someone dump the following at a gas station
2. a BIG dildo (realistic and BIG) (again left by the vacumn cleaner)

Could you imagine somebody dumpster diving and finding THAT?

Besides, I don't think even the most faithful of dumpster divers would give that a good home . . . that'd be like stealing someone else's boyfriend in a perverse sort of way wouldn't it?

Either way, I don't think there's enough for that one.

[bhskittykatt]

We periodically get memos on our top sheets of our newspaper bundles reminding people to NOT throw away their newspaper trash in the trash bins at the dropsite. Being a paper carrier generates a LOT of trash. I've seen paper carriers take the trash (cover sheets, those plastic string thingies, etc) and just toss it in the trash cans right there at the dropsites. Those trash cans were emptied at the end of the business day...it only takes a few large routes to fill them back up before the next business day starts.

We're supposed to dispose of it at the newspaper HQ dumpsters downtown (I sort the paper recycling at home, though. None of my neighbors seem to use the recycling bins....that leaves plenty of room for my stuff)

[Bloodsoul]

To be honest, I'd much prefer people to leave the diapers in the garbage can and not in a shopping cart or on the ground.

Of course I still despise all of the heavy, sharp objects that end up going in there, like engine parts and broken tile. It would also be nice if the store would replace some of the older, more broken garbage cans.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Why not take them for yourself and sell them?

Because A-- I didn't think of it at the time, and B-- I had no easy way to transport them all home to do so.