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How to annoy the entire street
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:39:49 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message newsp.0l9wvmsxwdg98l@glass... On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:20:26 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Commander Kinsey" wrote in message newsp.0l9rvtb1wdg98l@glass... On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:26:17 +0100, NY wrote: "Commander Kinsey" wrote in message newsp.0l9ns6b1wdg98l@glass... On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:29:45 +0100, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: wrote: 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? |
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