Wednesday Wonders

Living in the city was a new thing for us when we went to Oregon.  There were big trash bins and recycling bins in the apartment complex. At least once a week big old trucks came and dragged everything off.  When we lived in Vermont we had a compost pile.  We had a recycling bin on the east porch which we took to the recycling center every Saturday.  We had a trash man come to the end of our driveway.  Every two or three weeks we left a bag for him since we did not generate very much actual trash.

Here in South Carolina we have Wednesday trash pick up. Also Wednesday recycling pick up.  We have one bin for each of them.  There are VERY SPECIFIC rules about what can be picked up.

If there is corrugated cardboard to be picked up we need to call the Department of Public Works on Thursday to notify them that we have cardboard to be picked up, place the flattened cardboard ONLY (no paper, no plastic, no styrofoam, no fake wood that was in the box) at the curb BEFORE SEVEN AM, and most likely the cardboard picker-upper will come by sometime during the day as long as the cardboard cowboy comes by earlier and verifies that there is cardboard at the curb.

Today almost the last of our cardboard was taken away.  Yay!

The truck came and picked up a good-sized load from the curb.

And emptied it into the truck!  It will be great when all the cardboard is gone.  Did I say that the bug guy who came the other day told us that cockroaches just love cardboard?!!!  Well, that put an end to my collection of nice bankers' boxes and apple boxes with handles.  We will just get more if we need them at some distant time in the future, and JUST BEFORE we need them loaded!