Timing is Everything
Your Boulevardier notes with dismay that once again a large, windy, wet storm is arriving on trash day in his neighborhood in Castro Valley. Prepare for garbage cans (sorry, carts) to be blown over -- or for trash, especially papers, to be blown from trucks -- and for wet, sticky garbage to clog our streets and gutters. Sigh.
posted by Your Boulevardier @ 11:41 PM
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Here, on my street, trash is collected on Thursdays. I am convinced that Thursday is the windiest day of the week.
Friday is our trash collection day. I live in the hills above Vannoy School and it gets quite windy up here. The winds usually blow directly toward the front of the house which faces southwest.
I turn the containers sideways on windy days to prevent the lids from blowing open or the containers from tipping over the curb. I sent an email to the sanitation company to explain why I do this and they said it's acceptable.
I noticed that the trash container had an insert installed last week that limits it to twenty gallons. With the insert in place, the trash doesn't reach the bottom of the container now. It reaches about half way down. Most of my waste goes into the recycling and organics containers so I don't often have much to put in the trash container. But on the occaisions I do fill it, that insert is going to make the container top-heavy. This means the odds of a tip-over on a windy day are even greater now.
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