Recyle Recycle Recycle

Now, if you just read my prior post, this is not the same guy who collects our recyclables each day. But it was too funny not to share.This is all styrofoam loaded up really high and wide on one small bike.

What you can't see in this photo, because we were in the car, on the street, trying to get the picture, is that there is a police car in front of the bike/cart with his lights flashing. This man's load was so large, he was pulled over by a police officer. I think they figured he was a safety risk traveling down the busy road like this. You think? Not an uncommon occurrence for us. I need to learn to take better/more pictures while traveling in a car with windows that I can't roll down. So I can share more regular stuff.  (It's a mini van and I'm in the back - that's another story for another day) :-)

The small things get done, but differently

Hi Everyone. No food post this time. I was telling one of my friends from the states about the people who work in our neighborhood and care for the lawn, the trash, streets etc. She suggested it might be interesting to see how it's done where we live. Here there are not contracted companies with big trucks and names on the side of their vehicles with uniforms etc. doing these tasks. In Green Villas, our neighborhood, there is a somewhat frail looking man in his regular clothes driving a three wheeled bike like this. He collects the trash bags and carefully piles them up on his vehicle and peddles along.

This is our trash can in front of the house. It's small and it's emptied everyday at least once. When we first arrived, I thought, what in the world are we going to do with all of our trash. My thought was it would emptied once or twice a week like home but no, it's never really been full. We have the trash guy who comes in the morning and then later I see another man looking for boxes etc. to recycle. My friend here says it's all gone through very thoroughly and everything that can be recycled, is. Labor is super cheep here and there are no shortages of people to do these tasks, by hand.