l, not -l wrote:
> On 21-Jul-2008, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> l, not -l wrote:
>>> Tuesday's and Friday's are trash days here, so today is
>>> eat-up-everthing-that-is-too-good-to-toss-tomorrow-but-won't-make-much-longer
>>> day. Brunch is pork steak cooked over applewood smoke, sweet pepper
>>> slaw
>>> and a dab of leftover whole-wheat spaghetti with butter and garlic.
>>> Shasta
>>> Diet Grapefruit soda to wet the whistle.
>>
>> You have TWO trash days? Where ARE you? I don't recall if we
>> ever had two such days. (I do recall garbage pails though....)

> I'm in a suburb of St. Louis MO USA; our city provides trash pickup
> two days per week for about $17/month; no pails involved, bags only.

My trash is picked up twice a week, too. There usually isn't much
to toss on the second day.

> and Fridays on the west. The first pickup day of the week actually
> has two pickups; one for yard waste (which is turned into mulch and
> compost),

Very nice ... we only have brush pickups twice a year. Other
times you have to haul it to the recycle center or think of
something else to do with it.

> the other for general garbage. Recycling is not included;
> but is available through third-party pickup at additional cost or
> through drop-off at a central repository at no cost.

Recycling is once a month here. Hardly in the spirit of recycling
if everyone drives their SUV to the place to drop of cans and bottles.
And newspapers.

nancy