Let's talk trash

Yes, garbage, you know refuse, the stuff you don't want.

Now in the US usually it comes once a week. How much garbage do you make in one week?

Well, we started to recycle here, so that cuts back on some of it... 

You can recycle plastic, paper and aluminum here. So we mostly have plastic from our water. Since we drink only bottled water. We have a dispenser in the house, but we sometimes need large bottles or jugs for ease of use when filling the coffee pot and etc.

Usually we struggle to get one bag a week full of garbage... A week, so weekly garbage pick up is great, unless you are doing some big project then you wish they came more often... We have no projects here...since we don't own the home...

The garbage here comes three times a week... It seems excessive, I have only been putting garbage out one day a week... Although with out yard waste from Saturday, my curb is piled full today... 

What do you think of when you think typical garbage man? 

I think middle aged, slightly over weight chubby guy hanging off the back of a garbage truck riding from  house to house (this is what I grew up with)

When we lived in NC they had fancy garbage trucks that a little arm reached out and picked up the can and dumped it in the bin, and they went on. There were two men in the truck in case anyone had something additional to the can.

Here, the typical garbage man I see is young and fit, and not lazy, they run around behind the truck, which doesn't stop moving for the most part, it slides through the neighborhood slowly while the two men on the back run for garbage can to truck, dump it in, run back to replace the garbage can and then on the next garbage can... No wonder they are in shape! 8 hours or more of running a day!