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I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. |
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How does one put a garbage can in the garbage?
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton |
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On 1/22/2020 6:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton That's right. Polyethylene cracking means it is degraded and needs to be replaced. |
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On 1/22/2020 6:20 AM, Thomas wrote:
How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? My garage is wider than average and will accept cans and cars. I did however, when they delivered an extra can for recycle, ask the guy, "Where can I put my ****ing cars?". Most neighbors have cans and cars parked in the driveway with garage full of other stuff. |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:39:01 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton Yep. In my district - it appears to belong to the hauler : https://www.bra.org/resources/supplies/ John T. |
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Thomas writes:
How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? sawzall |
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thank you all for recommendations.
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On 1/22/20 5:20 AM, Thomas wrote:
How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? Cut it up into small, unrecognizable pieces? -- "The sensible man leaves the future world [hereafter] out of consideration." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) |
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On 1/22/20 6:33 AM, Frank wrote:
On 1/22/2020 6:20 AM, Thomas wrote: How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? My garage is wider than average and will accept cans and cars. I did however, when they delivered an extra can for recycle, ask the guy, "Where can I put my ****ing cars?".Â* Most neighbors have cans and cars parked in the driveway with garage full of other stuff. I still get one car (and the garbage/recycling cans) in my 2-car garage, although I've only had this house for 22 years. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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On 1/22/20 9:26 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Thomas writes: How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? sawzall That's what I'd use (assuming it was my can, of course). BTW, once I put a self-propelled mower in the garbage, in parts. The only part that needed power tools was the deck. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:40:37 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 1/22/20 9:26 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: Thomas writes: How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? sawzall That's what I'd use (assuming it was my can, of course). BTW, once I put a self-propelled mower in the garbage, in parts. The only part that needed power tools was the deck. We would just set it out there and they would take it. They took a king sized mattress with the trash about a month ago. My neighbor always has furniture sitting out there. I think he buys cheap or just finds stuff for free and when he finds something a little nicer, he trades up. They took a whole bathroom away from here when I remodeled. Tub, toilet vanity/sink and 20 white buckets full of tile, concrete and other debris along with some lumber. They grumbled a little but they took it. |
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In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:20:28 -0800 (PST), Thomas
wrote: How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? ONe day the garbage men took my garbage can when I didn't want them to. It was filled up when I set it out, and, probably after they emptied it, they decided it should go. It had big problems (5 or 6 vertical slits about 8 to 14" long) but I could still have used it. I just wouldn't have put small things in that could escape through the slits. Any small things would have been put in bags. But I understand that few of their customers think like I do, so on average they did the right thing. |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:20:28 -0800 (PST), Thomas
wrote: How does one put a garbage can in the garbage? Cut it up and put it in a garbage bag??? |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:18:35 -0500, micky
wrote: Interestingly, Gorilla Tape in the size roll I got was cheaper at HDepot than Wal-mart, who would have you believe they are always cheap. I went to a commercial belt distributor to buy a belt for my snowblower and it was less than half the price of the cheapest one I could buy on-line (including shipping) - and it was a premier brand (gates Tri-Power) WHo'd have thought the cheapest place to buy a belt would be a brick and mortar local specialty shop???? I wanted a spare in case this one breaks in the next snow storm - or the one after that, or 5 years from now. I called the local NAPA store - not in stock, but available in 2 days - same price - again half what I'd pay on-line. Gotta love this "offline shopping" and buying from places you might actually logically expect to stock the stuff - - - - Just sayin' |
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On 1/22/2020 7:22 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:46:23 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:39:01 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton Yep. In my district - it appears to belong to the hauler : Even if it does belong to the hauler, it's in society's interest to repair it. Why throw away 5 pounds of plastic to fill landfill and never degrade if you can delay that. If the repair won't take too much time or money, I'd repair it. You can replace it in a few years when the repair failes. https://www.bra.org/resources/supplies/ John T. I did agree with your use of Gorilla tape. It might extend the lifetime. Container is likely PE which is recyclable. Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck and should be picked for recycle at the dump. It is done like that in many places and in order to recycle you have to have people at the dump anyway to pick through the recycle. |
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On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 8:02:38 AM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck and should be picked for recycle at the dump. It is done like that in many places and in order to recycle you have to have people at the dump anyway to pick through the recycle. Paper for recycling has to be clean. If it's got coffee grounds, oil, etc., it cannot be recycled. I doubt they could hire people to wade through disposable diapers, rotting meat, etc. just to get the useful recyclables separated and cleaned. We switched some years back to single-stream recycling, so we only need two cans (and two trucks). One for recycling and one for things headed to the landfill. If I am reliably informed, King County, WA, requires compostables to be disposed of separately. Your carrot peels can't go in with your diapers. Cindy Hamilton Cindy Hamilton |
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Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. We switched some years back to single-stream recycling, so we only need two cans (and two trucks). One for recycling and one for things headed to the landfill. Cindy Hamilton Here we have : 2 wheeled bins ; 1 truck ; every 2 weeks. No compost pick-up - we're rural and composters are no problem. All the recycle-bin stuff gets sorted at the big recycling facility. Homeowners need to take any hazardous waste to the landfill's collection area on certain specific days. My only complaint is that they recently excluded some plastics - not because of recycling value - but for sorting difficulty - - a better solution should be offered - like having the homeowner sort/bundle/bag the difficult items. John T. |
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 9:35:35 AM UTC-5, TimR wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. 5. Get up early, swap it with your neighbor's identical bin. He'll blame the guys on the truck. Problem solved. Here they have serial numbers, so that's probably not a good idea. |
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In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:02:27 -0500, Frank "frank
wrote: On 1/22/2020 7:22 PM, micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:46:23 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:39:01 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton Yep. In my district - it appears to belong to the hauler : Even if it does belong to the hauler, it's in society's interest to repair it. Why throw away 5 pounds of plastic to fill landfill and never degrade if you can delay that. If the repair won't take too much time or money, I'd repair it. You can replace it in a few years when the repair failes. https://www.bra.org/resources/supplies/ John T. I did agree with your use of Gorilla tape. It might extend the lifetime. Container is likely PE which is recyclable. Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will He's never invited me to his house. I don't think he likes me very much. see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck I don't think they actually use 3 trucks for this, that there's more than one section in one truck. OR, something like here, one truck but it instead of taking everything two times a week, it takes one thing one day and the other stuff the other day. But some place around here is switching to single stream. and should be picked for recycle at the dump. It is done like that in many places and in order to recycle you have to have people at the dump anyway to pick through the recycle. |
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On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 5:58:38 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:02:27 -0500, Frank "frank wrote: On 1/22/2020 7:22 PM, micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:46:23 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:39:01 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton Yep. In my district - it appears to belong to the hauler : Even if it does belong to the hauler, it's in society's interest to repair it. Why throw away 5 pounds of plastic to fill landfill and never degrade if you can delay that. If the repair won't take too much time or money, I'd repair it. You can replace it in a few years when the repair failes. https://www.bra.org/resources/supplies/ John T. I did agree with your use of Gorilla tape. It might extend the lifetime. Container is likely PE which is recyclable. Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will He's never invited me to his house. I don't think he likes me very much. see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck I don't think they actually use 3 trucks for this, that there's more than one section in one truck. OR, something like here, one truck but it instead of taking everything two times a week, it takes one thing one day anBd the other stuff the other day. But some place around here is switching to single stream. And then more and more that one stream is going into the landfill anyway. China doesn't want crappy plastic and paper anymore, for it to be acceptable it has to be very clean and not mixed up. Once you mix soup cans, tomato sauce jars and paper together, what do you think you wind up with? We went from several streams that mostly did get recycled, to one that doesn't. |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:54:41 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
wrote: On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 8:02:38 AM UTC-5, Frank wrote: Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck and should be picked for recycle at the dump. It is done like that in many places and in order to recycle you have to have people at the dump anyway to pick through the recycle. Paper for recycling has to be clean. If it's got coffee grounds, oil, etc., it cannot be recycled. I doubt they could hire people to wade through disposable diapers, rotting meat, etc. just to get the useful recyclables separated and cleaned. We switched some years back to single-stream recycling, so we only need two cans (and two trucks). One for recycling and one for things headed to the landfill. If I am reliably informed, King County, WA, requires compostables to be disposed of separately. Your carrot peels can't go in with your diapers. Cindy Hamilton Cindy Hamilton The "recycle" should just be metal. Everything else is trash except for a few localities close to a place that can use it. Most "recycle" is too dirty to use anyway and goes to the landfill. We did paper recycling at IBM way before it was cool and it is amazing how pure it has to be to have any value at all. Clean white "bond" was worth 6 cents a pound. Newsprint was 2 cents. Mixed paper was ZERO. They would reject the whole load if they saw anything else in it. |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:06:08 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 9:35:35 AM UTC-5, TimR wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. 5. Get up early, swap it with your neighbor's identical bin. He'll blame the guys on the truck. Problem solved. Here they have serial numbers, so that's probably not a good idea. I doubt everyone has their original bin, even if they checked. If the wind is blowing hard the empty ones get scattered down the street. People just grab one and the last guy may have to walk a ways to get one. Mine is easy to spot tho because it has lots of weird paint on top. I use it for a work surface when I am spraying various little things. |
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On 1/23/2020 8:54 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 8:02:38 AM UTC-5, Frank wrote: Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck and should be picked for recycle at the dump. It is done like that in many places and in order to recycle you have to have people at the dump anyway to pick through the recycle. Paper for recycling has to be clean. If it's got coffee grounds, oil, etc., it cannot be recycled. I doubt they could hire people to wade through disposable diapers, rotting meat, etc. just to get the useful recyclables separated and cleaned. We switched some years back to single-stream recycling, so we only need two cans (and two trucks). One for recycling and one for things headed to the landfill. If I am reliably informed, King County, WA, requires compostables to be disposed of separately. Your carrot peels can't go in with your diapers. Cindy Hamilton Cindy Hamilton True that clean recycle wanted. I think you have to look at the overall picture in terms of economics including pollution. There is also the value of the recycle which varies with demand. Paper products are the lowest value. That's why I think clogging up our driveways with cans and having multiple trucks for pickup is not as efficient as doing all the chores at the dump. While clean recycle is preferred it is not that simple. Take a PET soda bottle for example. It has a PE cap and a paper label which must be removed. If the PET is dyed it cannot be used. The bottles must be chopped up and washed. PE and paper float and are skimmed off. The PET cannot be used directly and most is probably depolymerized and repolymerized. Even then the polymer is not as color free as virgin resin and must be used where color is not observed or a problem. |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:58:33 -0500, micky
wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:02:27 -0500, Frank "frank wrote: On 1/22/2020 7:22 PM, micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:46:23 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:39:01 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, wrote: Hi, I have one of those very large (96 gallon) plastic garbage bins with wheels. It has developed a vertical crack down the front. I've seen several videos on plastic garbage bin repairs, for example: 1. using heat gun to embed metal screen across the crack and into the plastic 2. using soldering gun to melt two sides back together and then add more plastic from a compatible source, usually a zip tie. 3. using a plastic welding gun (requires specialized equipment for the minor amount I need to do) 4. sanding the plastic, overlaying fiberglass mesh, and spackling over the whole thing with 2part epoxy. Anyone have luck with these or other solutions? Advice appreciated. Thank you. Theodore. Do you own it or does your garbage hauler own it? If the latter, call them up and ask for a replacement. Cindy Hamilton Yep. In my district - it appears to belong to the hauler : Even if it does belong to the hauler, it's in society's interest to repair it. Why throw away 5 pounds of plastic to fill landfill and never degrade if you can delay that. If the repair won't take too much time or money, I'd repair it. You can replace it in a few years when the repair failes. https://www.bra.org/resources/supplies/ John T. I did agree with your use of Gorilla tape. It might extend the lifetime. Container is likely PE which is recyclable. Speaking of recycling, I think it is stupid to have multiple cans for different trash. Look at your friend Adam Schiff's house and you will He's never invited me to his house. I don't think he likes me very much. see three cans. That means 3 different trucks will have to come to his house for pickup. Trash should go into one can, handled by one truck I don't think they actually use 3 trucks for this, that there's more than one section in one truck. It is 3 trucks here every week. One for horticulture, one for trash and one for recycle. The recycle trucks have the lift for the 65 gallon tote. (when they are all working) Otherwise it is all the regular garbage truck with a hopper in back and a guy hanging on. |
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