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Trash in the East is an interesting thing. Back home, every week, you'd take your bags of garbage to the curb, a couple of burly men would pull up in a truck and take them away. That was pretty much the extent of the experience. Eventually, the towns bought a pile of big green or blue plastic containers and instead of bags, you'd
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I try and avoid collecting junk, which isn't too hard because I hate shopping.<br /><br />And I try and buy stuff that I can recycle... Vancouver has an excellent and easy to use recycling program, so I don't feel so bad about throwing garbage out.
We put it in a plastic bag in our house and Grandpa takes the bag out to the garbage cans every morning. If we have something large, we borrow a pickup and take it out to the dump. It generally costs me a dollar or two to dump junked computer, an old chair or broken what-a-ma-call-it at the dump. The city buries and life goes on. Eventually, the city will sell the landfill and something will be
In the county, we have the big plastic containers with hollow-sounding wheels. Occasionally we fill it up and have to pile stuff off to the side but they've been good about picking that up as well.<br /><br />I can't imagine living somewhere with no trash pick-up service. Ick!
Austin - Good call on the no junk policy - We're trying to do that, but I have a hard time with it, I seem to think that I have to have or save every little piece of paperwork or packaging that might be important
Steve - your comment is awesome! It reminds me of the west as much as anything, and I mean that in a good way.
Randy - It really is ick! We have three bags of trash chilling on the porch right now, waiting for us to justify a trip to the dump with our magic city bags... it's kind of ridiculous.