Originally posted by Wheatfield I hear a combination of garbage and trash on the western plains of Canada. For example, I take out the trash but it is picked up by the garbage truck.
When I was young my parents didn’t have a Garbage Disposal in the sink but they had a Trash Can under it. We wrapped garbage in yesterday’s newspaper on the corner of the sink and burned it in the brick garbage pit behind the house. Everyone had one of those. We put trash in the galvanized steel trash can in the alley and the trash men picked up the trash cans and dumped them in a trash truck twice a week.
Eventually the city prohibited burning garbage since it polluted the air and attracted rodents. Then they stopped emptying trash cans into the trash trucks, so many people installed garbage disposals and everyone started bagging their trash. Others just put everything in plastic trash bags and left them at the curb. We had to stop burning leaves too. They also went in plastic trash bags.
Now plastic trash bags aren’t allowed, we have wheeled trash containers, and the trash is dumped in a truck again. We have paper Yard Waste bags that cost $2.50 each. We don’t have Trash Men any more though. We have one Refuse Handler who drives the truck that dumps the wheeled container and picks up the Yard Waste bags. . We are encouraged to shred our leaves and food waste and compost our shreddings instead of buying the bags. We are obliged to drive our separated recyclables to the (trash dump) Recycling Center and carefully dump them in the correct containers.
The Recycling Center is clearly posted - NO TRASH.