Showing posts with label garbage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garbage. Show all posts
Halloween is over for another year, but it will linger on in yards, and alleys for at least one complete garbage pickup cycle. Halloween "week" already rivals the Christmas "season" in terms of consumer spending, and I think only Christmas produces more trash. With the possible exception of reindeer poo, Xmas has nothing on Halloween's wet, slimy, pumpkin debris. On the good side, Halloween may be one of the most biodegradable holidays -- the bulk of the trash, even including costumes, is candy, pumpkins, and cardboard fireworks casings,
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After dark, it's all the same junk, only moodier.[/caption]
It's end-of-month, end-of-summer: Let's all move! Binners of every persuasion, enjoy pawing through what Fairview renters throw away when they move out. Dumpsters will be dived, repeatedly, and painstakingly, with every bag opened, in the search for, well... whatever. Who knows? There's all sorts of good things to find: fresh food, trinkets, even money! I'm not much for dumpster diving but even I get the whole, "you'll never know what you'll find until you look" mentality that drives experienced binners to spend hours searching all the way to the bottom of a full dumpster.
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Someone didn't want to take this stuff with them?[/caption]
Of course, there's another side to this. The building managers of the Fairview neighbourhood's many apartment buildings are all about tidy, well-ordered properties -- they hate the way their departing tenants shed unwieldy junk behind the buildings on their way out the door to some new apartment with all the mod cons, and wainscoting -- several of them have been quite blunt on the subject of tenants, and their trashy ways.
What gets building manager's goats isn't so much bags in the dumpster, or even cardboard boxes full of discarded items -- it's the big stuff like mattresses, and furniture, and mirrors. Mattresses are the worst; they won't fit into dumpsters, the City of Vancouver doesn't want to take them away anymore -- in fact, thanks to the possibility of bed bugs, no one wants to get within 20 feet of a discarded mattress anymore. Mirrors are a pain, because the longer they linger in an alley, the more likely that they'll end up smashed. Click the images to enlarge.
After dark, it's all the same junk, only moodier.[/caption]It's end-of-month, end-of-summer: Let's all move! Binners of every persuasion, enjoy pawing through what Fairview renters throw away when they move out. Dumpsters will be dived, repeatedly, and painstakingly, with every bag opened, in the search for, well... whatever. Who knows? There's all sorts of good things to find: fresh food, trinkets, even money! I'm not much for dumpster diving but even I get the whole, "you'll never know what you'll find until you look" mentality that drives experienced binners to spend hours searching all the way to the bottom of a full dumpster.
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Someone didn't want to take this stuff with them?[/caption]Of course, there's another side to this. The building managers of the Fairview neighbourhood's many apartment buildings are all about tidy, well-ordered properties -- they hate the way their departing tenants shed unwieldy junk behind the buildings on their way out the door to some new apartment with all the mod cons, and wainscoting -- several of them have been quite blunt on the subject of tenants, and their trashy ways.
What gets building manager's goats isn't so much bags in the dumpster, or even cardboard boxes full of discarded items -- it's the big stuff like mattresses, and furniture, and mirrors. Mattresses are the worst; they won't fit into dumpsters, the City of Vancouver doesn't want to take them away anymore -- in fact, thanks to the possibility of bed bugs, no one wants to get within 20 feet of a discarded mattress anymore. Mirrors are a pain, because the longer they linger in an alley, the more likely that they'll end up smashed. Click the images to enlarge.
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