The ultimate poll. How is the household waste removed from your abode?

[PartyPooper]

Poll question: The ultimate poll. How is the household waste removed from your abode?

This is probably a first at DU. I don't recall ever seeing such an informative and scientific poll such as this before. ;-)

Me? I live in the country. My partner and I have a septic system. It is working fine. No problems so far. :fingers crossed:

Only inconvenience...we can't put coffee grounds, egg shells, or any non-biodegradables down the sink or toilet. :-(

Plus, we're supposed to pump the septic tank every few years. We last did so in 1996.

What about you. Tell us your story.

:-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I flush..after that it goes straight to the White House

and Bush comes out

[alittlelark]

2. On the FR site my guess is

that chamberpots would reighn - followed closely by outhouses.

[Ready4Change]

3. City sewage system, but...

We've got some narrow inground pipes that are prone to buildup and blockage, so we also limit the amount of solids run through the disposal, sinks or toilets. Still have to snake out the drains every year or two.

[Spinzonner]

4. Restraining Order

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

5. What do those options mean???

I live in a city of 150,000 next to a city of a few million. What do I have?

[PartyPooper]

6. If you don't already know, you're probably on city / municipal sewer.

BTW, believe me, if you were using a chamber pot, you'd know!

:D

[KT2000]

7. Septic and it scares me

In a 30 year old house, if it fails, it will cost a small fortune to bring it up to current codes. Now they require mounds above ground for the drain field - looks awful.

[Kali]

8. Other - rural too.

Indoor plumbing but it merely goes a few tens of yards down some old irrigation pipes to be composted and solar disinfected. No pit, no septic. Burn paper(except huge piles of newspaper or magazines - they eventually go to dump or other readers as they are mostly hand me downs anyway), crush glass in a "pit" (translation - break against a rock and try to keep it in one spot - kids' favorite chore) for a future mine, aluminum to the local firefighters for 4th of July fireworks show, organics go to the chickens, washingmachine/grey water for a little patch of lawn. Only cans and plastics (and occasional loads of magazines)to the county dump. (virtually NO recycling in our county)

[Gore1FL]

9. Sewer -- but "no problem" is not the case

I have spent over $300 on roto-rooter in the last year (though I think they FINALLY did more than open a small hole the last time as my Washing maching now drains without flooding the basement.

In the house I bought that my ex-wife owns now, I had in the neighborhood of $8,000 of work done in the first couple of months because the damn thing collapsed -- had to replace from the stack to about 8 feet out in the fron yard (about 25 to 30 feet of pipe).

Sewer -- Problems wasn't a choice.