Saturday, May 31, 2008

scheduled trash pick up

Here is our local dumpster, with the sign as to which days we can leave which things.  It seems so complicated but basically I just have to remember on Weds. morning to put out the unburnable stuff like cans and glass in the clear bag with blue writing on it.  Also same day I can take out the burnable stuff in a yellow bag with red writing on it.  On Friday evening for Sat. morning pick up is when I have to take down our large junk (sodai gomi in Japanese, Japanese women sometimes call their retired lazy husbands this!)

So different in Idaho where all garbage is just put out mixed up in any kind of container.  In CA too DS2 just dumps everything in the condo joint trash bin. DS1 has 2 trash cans one for grass and leaves and the other for mixed garbage with each a different pick up day on the street.  I think at the place where all this garbage is taken is where it is sorted probably by magnets?

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