Showing posts with label dumpster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dumpster. Show all posts
This is about 7:30 a.m., pointing west, down a back alley I usually go through twice a day -- look how tidy it is!
All back alleys in Vancouver are this clean (unless they're not). This alley is in the process of being washed by the rain and having some of its dumpsters emptied -- you can just make out the caution lights on the back of a garbage truck on the west side of Alder Street at the far end of the lane where it doglegs north rather than continuing straight on to intersect with Granville Street.
On the left is a brightly-lit building's gated parking enclosure containing garbage and cardboard dumpsters as well as a set of blue city recycling bins, which are full, darn it! On the right you can see the brown dumpster tucked into its un-gated alcove. Right beside it (see below), is another alcove for the recycling bins. Both buildings have the same building manager.
Each of the accessible dumpsters, from the brown one down to the end of the alley -- seven in all -- is wide open -- again, look how tidy it is! Welcome to Fairview.
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Lift with your back kid! One of the best photos in the history of garbage photography.[/caption]
The magic of Christmas isn't really visible from the alleys. It's pretty much buried under the mountains of holiday-related garbage.
It would be bad enough without the horde of dumpster divers who have galloped into Fairview -- mostly from the steppes of the Downtown Eastside -- to sift the trash with a fine tooth comb to find all the imagined treasure the "day after."
I encountered a few in the evening preparing to work the "night shift."
Where some night shift workers will fortify themselves with coffee, all three of the intrepid lads I saw were sped up like a recording by Alvin and the Chipmunks -- all the better to be able to spend three hours getting to the bottom of whatever might be in a big old dumpster.
Normally this could be chalked up to the fact that Fairview's dumpsters mostly stay unlocked while downtown they are kept locked by law. But today? I can't believe the dumpsters in the downtown West End neighbourhood would be any less full than in Fairview, where they couldn't lock them if they wanted to.
So anyway, all the dumpsters I saw on Boxing Day were either overflowing with garbage or they looked like they erupted, spraying their contents far and wide.
Oh the crows will have a field day tomorrow morning! As will the garbage pickup trucks. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Disappointing scene. Mostly because it doesn't photograph as badly as it looks in person.[/caption]
Lift with your back kid! One of the best photos in the history of garbage photography.[/caption]The magic of Christmas isn't really visible from the alleys. It's pretty much buried under the mountains of holiday-related garbage.
It would be bad enough without the horde of dumpster divers who have galloped into Fairview -- mostly from the steppes of the Downtown Eastside -- to sift the trash with a fine tooth comb to find all the imagined treasure the "day after."
I encountered a few in the evening preparing to work the "night shift."
Where some night shift workers will fortify themselves with coffee, all three of the intrepid lads I saw were sped up like a recording by Alvin and the Chipmunks -- all the better to be able to spend three hours getting to the bottom of whatever might be in a big old dumpster.
Normally this could be chalked up to the fact that Fairview's dumpsters mostly stay unlocked while downtown they are kept locked by law. But today? I can't believe the dumpsters in the downtown West End neighbourhood would be any less full than in Fairview, where they couldn't lock them if they wanted to.
So anyway, all the dumpsters I saw on Boxing Day were either overflowing with garbage or they looked like they erupted, spraying their contents far and wide.
Oh the crows will have a field day tomorrow morning! As will the garbage pickup trucks. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Disappointing scene. Mostly because it doesn't photograph as badly as it looks in person.[/caption]
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