Please Don't Share Your Garbage

Someone decided that they’d share their garbage with us since we only had one can out.  Two boxes of  old farm stuff , rusty cans and dirty bottles. The town was good enough to pick up the rust cans but my wife had to collect the rest and stuff it in a garbage bag to go out next week.  She was very NOT impressed.  It is just rude and laziness in her opinion.

This reminds me of when we lived in Germany in a six plex apartment in a tiny village called Beggendorf.  We didn't have a clue how the garbage system worked there.  For the first few weeks I would just leave my garbage bag by the curb beside everyone's large roll away bins.  I remember an older gentleman watching me and shaking his head and saying something I couldn't understand, probably that I was rude and lazy.  Later we got the key to our storage bin and started putting our bin out properly.  Several weeks later one of our neighbours was all upset as we were using their bin.  Within a few minutes everyone in the building was out sorting out all the bins as they were all mixed up.  We just stood to the side and waited for them to figure it all out and let us know which one was ours.  It turns out each bin had a bar code and each apartment had to pay for the removal based on the weight of their garbage.  They take their garbage pretty seriously over there.  I'm sure we will some day too.

Comments

[Mary]

Found this artical very interesting. Maybe this system should/could be used in Ontario. It would force everyone into shopping with a more eco/friendly mindset. Unfortunately a vast number of folks cannot or refuse to see the big picture and would probably end up dumping garbage all over the place to avoid the costs associated. Some people are already practicing this anti-social and illegal behaviour.