Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Trash Chutes

[Anne Jackson (a.jackson]

We had trash chutes in an apartment building and it was very convenient. We
also had huge roaches, at least on my ground floor. I used a lot of
pesticides, not knowing that roaches are harmless and can be eliminated with
borax and other non-toxic materials. I began to experience strange symtoms.
When I moved to a new building without roaches, I was better, and didn't
break down completely until I moved to CA and used bug bombs for fleas. I
know most cohousers are hip to this, but just want to to be sure we all stay
well. Coheartedly, Anne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Trash Chutes


>
> On 6/18/2003 5:03 PM, "Rodney Elin" <elin [at] rff.org> wrote:
>
> > Are there any co-housing communities out there that have a trash chute
> > installed in their buildings?  Eastern Village will have 55 households
in a
> > 4 story condo building.  The developer currently has a trash chute drawn
> > into the plans and we are questioning the necessity of this.  Many of us
> > view this as a huge expense and longterm maintainance issue.
>
> After living in many buildings where there was a trash chute and many
where
> there wasn't one, I much, much, much prefer that there be one. There are
> probably not many in cohousing, however, because not many are tall.
>
> The chutes were never a problem in terms of things getting stuck. The door
> where you put things in is smaller than the actual chute so that prevents
> people from putting things in that are too large. If something does get
> stuck, another bag coming down dislodges it.
>
> You will have a cleaner building and fewer cockroaches with a trash chute.
> While some people go out everyday with an extra hand to carry trash, not
> everyone does. And with a trash chute, you put out the trash every night.
If
> you live on the fourth floor you are not going down just to put out the
> trash.
>
> Sharon
> -- 
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
>
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