[pepsionice]

I lived in Germany for sixteen years. They basically do the same thing. The chief problem was that if you had a vacation planned....you really had to have a cooperative neighbor who would tote your “right” trash bin out to be picked up. You had to track this week by week, and not screw up. The worst pain was if you guessed wrong....you had two weeks before the next paper pick-up occurred, or three weeks before the compost pick-up occurred.

I can admit that on one occasion after missing the paper-pick-up....I ended up driving around in another town the next day where they had their paper being picked up....and trying to find five or six different bins with still enough room to dump what I had into a totally different bin. This is not what you really want to think about or do...when just coming back from a vacation.

[riri]

When I lived in Germany, they came every week, but you had the Gelbe Sacke. All our German neighbors would use a third two a half of the sack. We always had nearly two full sacks. It was hilarious. It humored us.

Everything we did was excessive according to the Germans. Our about 20 inch TV was too large, having a dryer was not necessary. why do you need a microwave..Weird mentality.