On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:39:49 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



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On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:20:26 +0100, Rod Speed
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:26:17 +0100, NY wrote:

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On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:29:45 +0100, Arthur Conan Doyle

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In my experience (Chicago, Denver) those areas had back alleys for
trash
pickup (and some deliveries)

Wow, is that a flash from the past. My grandmother lived in a
suburban
Chicago
house with an alley. Most houses there had detached garages off the
alley
and
when I was very young, everyone used an incinerator next to the
garage
for their
trash. She had a coal furnace in the basement as well. Trash truck
would
come
around once a month or so to pick up the ash - hence the term "ash
bins."
Those
were heavy monsters and the men who handled them were massive.

Yip, nowadays they're lazy like everyone else. Mechanised bin lifting
for
goodness sake. When I were a lad, my English teacher predicted that
in
the future we would all evolve to have no limbs, as everything would
be
done for us. We're getting that way....

Our garden waste wheelie bin, full of shredded tree branches and
leaves,
is
very heavy. I wouldn't be able to lift it. Even wheeling it up steps
(our
patio has several different levels) takes a fair amount of force.

Funny how 30 years ago there were no wheelybins. The binmen lifted the
bins onto their shoulder and tipped them into the cart.

Those were much smaller bins, stupid.

And suddenly we produce twice the waste?

They had more than one bin,

No, there was one (half wheely bin sized) bin collected once per week. No other bins, recycling or otherwise.

and had incinerators

Irrelevant to how heavy they are when lifting.

and yep, we do produce a lot more packaging waste
and that wasn't suddenly either.

I don't believe you, what do I get in packets that I didn't used to?