While walking, I noticed a green pickup truck, half filled with plastic bags, headed into our development. I wondered what was in the bags, and in a few minutes the truck came back, now fully loaded. Garbage! I’ve lived here eight years, and this was the first time I saw a private vehicle doing a garbage run. We are responsible for removing our own trash, which David and I now do on Wednesdays. Some private citizen has a business collecting garbage for those who don’t want to deal with it themselves. It must be a good deal for both.
After I came home, I looked at the porch cam video as I often do, seeing what I looked like waving at the camera. Much to my surprise I saw something else.
That private garbage truck used my driveway to turn around!
Mehrling Muse 
Ahhh
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There’s no professional service you can hire for trash removal? The authorities trust that residents will be responsible when getting rid of their trash? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Huh
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We live in the country off a state road that is 1.5 lanes wide (an exaggeration). A real garbage truck wouldn’t be able to navigate here. Having a private person do it is a good solution, I think.
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Sounds like a brilliant idea
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This brought back so many memories. When my husband was a preacher in our tiny town the locals had trouble with their garbage not getting picked up. He began taking some people’s garbage to the dump in his pickup truck. Soon he had more customers and added racks like the truck you saw. He called the business Salvation Reclamation and Refuse :). Said more people seemed comfortable talking about faith to the garbage man than by going into a church. He sold the business when we moved almost thirty years ago. Last I heard, the business is still going.
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I remembered Chris did that, but I didn’t remember he was a peacher at the time. That name is perfect! Love it!
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That’s the way to start a business – find a need and fill it. Will you look into hiring them or continue to take your own?
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We will take our own garbage. It’s easy to drop it off as we run errands, and David and I like to be as self-sufficient as possible.
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Anne, lovely post and great name for a refuse collection: Salvation Reclamation and Refuse. We have a service which comes weekly and one which picks up branches and other garden “stuff.” I know the fellows by name. David, Cedric, Bo. We exchange pleasantries and wave to one another. So I just caught up with your world and voting blindly. Enjoy the weekend. ^^__^^
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We are having a lovely day today after the light rains from the hurricane. oxox
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Well, we are getting colder and bracing for lake effect snow from Sunday to Monday and a couple days next week. It has begun! Enjoy your lovely weather! oxox
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We are to get colder temps, too. oxox
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Same weather patterns aloft, I presume. Bundle up! oxox
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We saw rime ice on the tops of mountains as we drove to church this morning.
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Changes in temperatures aloft I presume. Roofs and side hills had a dusting of snow. It keeps falling but not sticking. We have winter coats, hats, scarves, and gloves at the ready plus snow and ice brushes in our vehicles. Ready or not… Have a lovely week. oxox
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Rime ice forms when freezing winds blow moisture-laden air on trees. Because altitude affects these conditions, the rime ice forms in a straight line at the lower edge and goes to the top of mountains. I delight in it, having experienced it only in the last eight years. oxox
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We did not like these ice storms in the Colorado spring weather with new buds and tree limbs. They snapped under the weight. I used to see such trees laden with rime ice in the village we lived in during my first Fulbright year. Pretty. And can be destructive. oxox
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Our rime ice has never come close to us, because we are at 2,600 ft. Colorado rime ice sounds scary.
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Our altitude was just under 5000 ft. Be well. oxox
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5,000 ft would be considered high here. oxox
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And where I attended the university was 7.800 feet. We took our two children to Pikes Peak which is 14,100 feet. The air is thin at the top. oxox
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We went to a wedding at 10,000 ft. I was one who got a headache from the altitude. My SIL, who has migraines, did NOT have a headache. oxox
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Now that’s a high place for a wedding. Which mountains were you in? oxox
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We were in Leadville, don’t remember the mountain name. The bride and groom liked to hike, and that was the reason for the venue.
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One of my sisters lived there for a time. I visited and saw the many surrounding 14,000 ‘ ranges: Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range and more in the Mosquito Range. Big mining towns originally. Ski country and hiking. oxox
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Nice post and great name for refuse collection.
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Wow, interesting. It is always hard when you need to turn around to decide, do I turn into someone’s driveway or drive for miles to find a real parking lot? It doesn’t look like that is the case there though. I am glad you have that camera. You get to see some interesting things. Whenever we go away on vacation we never post on social media until we are back, but we also generally tell our neighbors, if you see a moving truck pull up in front of our house while we are gone, call the police, we are not moving!
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That’s good that your neighbors know when you are away. We live on a dead end street, and my drive is the most accessible.
I got the camera when there was a flasher in the neighborhood. We haven’t had any more trouble like that, so I treat the cam as a toy. It is fun.
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We used to take trash to the county dump, until the city started weekly pick-up. That was 30+ years ago. Soon after the house pick-up the trash company started picking up everything. They had to remove old refrigerators and the like from ditches, so they started the mandatory collection service. Residents are charged monthly for trash pick-up at the same time as city water and sewer bills go out. At first they only picked up trash once a month (garbage they picked up weekly,) but now they pick up all kinds of trash every week when they pick up the garbage and recyclables.
In fact, on the evening before regular pick-up day (Tuesday,) people put out their “good” trash with the other trash, and “curb shoppers” make their rounds. Everything from furniture, mattresses, to construction materials. There’s a lucrative trade in scrap iron.
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I think we are taxed for the trash centers, but getting garbage there is up to us.
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