[Velvet]

In the city of several million up north we have garbage picked up once in 14 days. We have no garburators because the old sewer system of the city can’t handle it. I have to store food garbage etc in a second fridge as there is not enough room for it in our main fridge. The city picks up recycling separately. There is a blue bin for recycling. The garbage is picked up in a black bin. The food is picked up in a green bin. It is picked up so rarely that people put their garbage out in the bins during the week and the animals, raccoons and rats are over running the neighborhoods. I have a garden that is 20 feet by 50 feet in the back and last night there were 14 raccoons eating grubs or something at night. (Our property taxes are 3 times what they are in TV and it drives me nuts how poor the service is.) We have some people who think that if you pick up garbage less often, there will be less garbage put out. If you have more garbage than what the bin can hold after 2 weeks, you need to use bags and then you are charged for each bag. This means there is quite a bit of dumping, putting garbage into neighbor’s etc.
My city considers itself very forwards environmentally....