One of the stranger notions I have encountered here in lovely Colorado Springs is how one's trash makes it from their house to the landfill and/or recycling depot. Back home, you pay some taxes, and once a week or so, someone shows up and takes your garbage and recycling away. You don't consider it too much, until you have a giant something-or-other that needs to be hauled to the dump.
Here, you have to pay someone yourself to do it. A quick search in Google shows us that you have your choice of no fewer than nine (9!) waste removal companies, ten if you count "Hauling by Steve." So, on our street, Wednesday is garbage day for some people, Thursday for others. Some cans are fetched in the back alley, some in the front lane. Some take recycling, some don't. I still can't wrap my head around it.
Love privatized liquor, not so crazy about privatized waste removal.
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