Yes We Can

Residents of the Castro Valley Sanitary District got notice recently that our trash-hauling rates would go up. In conjunction with this move, we will be getting new cans for garbage, recycling, and green waste.

Your Boulevardier has discovered the top secret staging area where the new cans are being readied for delivery. It is in the parking lot behind the Rite Aid store on Castro Valley Boulevard -- coincidentally, across the street from the District's offices.

The photo cannot do the scene justice. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cans, both green and grey. The green ones are stacked nine high, in ten rows, by about 40 rows. The mountain of grey cans is smaller but still formidable.



One is curious: what happens with the old cans? Are they recycled? And are the new cans made of recycled materials?

And, to answer Mr. Tom Hannon's question in the comments below: Your Boulevardier does not know where the third can is. But he suspects that the missing cans -- those for trash -- are not yet staged because their delivery is more complicated. There are at least two sizes of trash cans -- Your Boulevardier opts for the smaller, money-saving 20-gallon can, for example -- so these need to be distributed by address, rather than simply leaving one at each residence.