"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:26:11 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> > I gather that the rest of the world and even this country does not live
>> > like we do here. We are very green here. Recycling has been mandatory
>> > here
>> > for a very long time. The food thing is fairly new to some areas. A
>> > recent
>> > post on Facebook was from a woman saying that the maintenance man was
>> > checking their bins. She felt violated. But... They can fine us for
>> > doing
>> > wrong. So I'm sure the man was just doing his job.
>> >
>> > When we lived in CA, the housing office did routine checks on our bins.
>> > A
>> > violation could cause us to lose our housing. I well remember the angry
>> > knock on the door at 7:00 a.m. one morning. The man was yelling at me,
>> > telling me that if the item was not removed from the alley in 30
>> > minutes,
>> > we would lose our military housing. I had no clue what he was talking
>> > about. Turned out that my husband set a broken microwave by the trash
>> > can,
>> > thinking they would pick it up. Nope. Things like that can't just be
>> > thrown out here either. They have to go to special disposal stations
>> > and
>> > often there is a small fee for disposal.
>>
>> I have read of this kind of stuff happening in England, but not here yet.
>> There have been reports of bin men refusing to empty a bin because there
>> was
>> something in it they objected to.
>
> For both recycling and regular trash, a truck with a hydraulic arm
> comes along, picks up the bin and dumps it in the truck. Unless
> something goes wrong, the driver of the truck has no idea what was in
> the bin. I probably could dispose of a dead body.

Blimey! Here a man will take the bin to the back of the lorry and attach it
to a lift things which will empty the bin into the back. It then comes back
down and he replaces it.

Not like the old days though. The bin men would come all the way into your
back yard to take it (on his shoulder) to the lorry, empty it and bring it
all the way back! Now, it seems the bins have to be in a particular places
and you take them and bring them back yourself.

Sigh .. changed days. Incidentally, there was some news on the radio about
some woman having died and in her back garden they found her husband wrapped
in plastic and rolled in carpet!! He was mummified!! No one had any idea
how long he had been there. No need to stick 'em in your bin



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