Trash!!

No matter where you choose to live,  you are guaranteed to have trash.  City, suburbs or country, we all generate refuse, things we no longer want or need.  In the general scheme of things, trash has always been pretty low on my priority list.  Having a place to put it and having a way to get rid of it are the two things that matter to me.  Otherwise I really never thought about it much.

There are other folks to whom trash apparently has aesthetic value.  Last March we received a letter from the homeowners association.

Said letter indicated that the next trash date would bring us all into a new highly technical trash experience.  They would be delivering the latest in trash cans.  These can be picked up from the curb by the garbage trucks without any one having to get off the truck and put the trash in the truck.  Whoop-de-do!  One more automated gismo in our lives.  One more thing that requires a lot of maintenance. Instead of placing the garbage in a disposable, recyclable bag, we have what the board of the HOA deems to be attractive trash cans.  Please!  Attractive?  Hardly!

For this new service I am sure that the HOA dues will go up.  Why?  So that the trash cans on the subdivision streets look uniform.  Uniformity in garbage is a concept beyond my grasp.  It worries me somewhat too that grown people have nothing better to legislate than the disposal of trash.  Next they will be telling us how much we are entitled to get rid of, there will be restrictions on what we can consider garbage and the absurdities will go from strange to stranger.  

As I look back over the trashy situations in my life it has occurred to me that the most efficient trash elimination I can remember, were those where the large recyclable bags were issued yearly and picked up with great efficiency and regularity by people.  The method was easy, we also recycled paper and cans in separate bins, and it employed human bodies who needed the jobs.

If we consider the possibilities of the return to real paper bags and the uniformity that provides it might be that returning to some of the other long proven trash methods might be worth considering....  Considering??  Oops, these people have now affected  my mind... I am thinking about trash!  Perhaps there is a board position open on the HOA!