Posted on 07/26/2025 6:06:02 AM PDT by Twotone
I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed!
When I was in Italy just 2 years ago, there was trash dumped everywhere along the back roads.
Unsorted.
Everywhere.
Rotting, moldy, bulging out of the trash bags tossed along the road.
Wherever there was a dumpster, it was filled to overflowing, with trash, garbage and hazardous wastes spilled everywhere.
Even untreated sewage spewing into the bays.
Some beaches were unusable.
You had to know where to go.
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and me
Thanks!
I learn something new today.
I feel the same way about the fine plastic bottles many of our products are shipped in today.
N. korea
Me, too. I'm appalled at the single-use plastic waste. I have come to hate the case of water in disposable bottles, so I bought a couple of stainless steel bottles which I refill with ice and water whenever I head out. Right now I'm munching on some green grapes that came in a disposable "clamshell" plastic container. Ugh!! I old enough to remember when you bought grapes by the bunch in the produce bin and put them into small paper bags. At least those composted at the dump, unlike the plastic clamshell containers that will last 1,000 or 10,000 years.
Depending on the property of mine I am staying in at any given point I have from zero trash service to three waste cans and compost bags and yard waste bundle requirements.
Austin the City has three blue, green ,brown for recycling, compost, other trash not blue or green wastes. They charge by the bag at my condo downtown, the homes have cans but if you fill a can and it won’t close it’s by the bag with bag tags you have to buy from HEB or it just sits on the curb and they will issue a code violation and fine you.
North Texas has blue and grey cans, but you have to compost bag all your yard waste none of it is allowed in the grey can, you must bundle the sticks or limbs into 40 lb or less and two ties so that the can be picked up by said ties.
The automated arm on the truck has a weight sensor if your can is over 50lbs they will drop it and put a notice it’s over weight and you must call for bulk pick up at additional cost. Of course all bulk must be prescheduled and paid upfront.
My rural properties has no trash service at all , I burn pit what’s flammable diesel fuel and some fire giggles is always a fun day , compost the organics or for aluminum ,glass and steel cans take them to a recycling center once every other month by the 50gal sack full. Aluminum gets paid by the lb, so does tin/steel glass is just take it away I can’t burn it or compost it so have at it.
It’s not just the Italians who do multiple cans on multiple days.
Kids today do noy know what a ‘doggy bag’ is.
We now get leftovers in a fine clamshell that gets used over and over at my house!
I was thrilled to move to my little Idaho town. One bin, everything goes in it. If you WANT to, you can take cardboard, steel & aluminum cans for recycling. Multiple charitable groups, including the humane society where I volunteer, takes aluminum cans to make some extra money. We get enough to pay for the monthly electricity bill. It’s a system that’s easy & works. :-)
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