Many nearby towns have discovered that curbside pick up does not solve their disposal problems. One sticky problem is disposal of bulk items. Most towns have one bulk item day per year. Residents bring in their bulk items, the town places them in dumpsters and, at the end of the day, they are carted away. Pound Ridge, for example, has an annual Spring Cleanup day. They charge $15 per car; $20 per station wagon or van; and, $50 per pickup. Everything is put into the big roll-offs and hauled away at the end of the day. Its expensive. Towns must pay the workers who unload the cars, they must rent the roll-offs and pay for their final unloading. It can also present more serious problems.

At Kent's last annual clean up day cars, waiting to unload, were lined up along 311 and spilling over onto Route 52. There was such traffic confusion at the unloading site that one of the workers was seriously injured.