Garbage Collection

So...I promised some posts about mundane things to my sister...so we will begin here, with garbage collection. And no, I'm not talking about Java or any other managed programming language. I'm talking about the kind of garbage collection that happens with a truck and is messy and dirty.

Here in Christchurch, we have a rather complicated system for sorting and removal of garbage. All household waste must be sorted into three categories. The Green category includes all organic waste, meat remains, vegetable peelings, bread, basically anything that will rot. Green garbage is collected each week and your week's green garbage must fit into a container about 3 feet by 1 foot by 1 foot. Yellow is the recycling, generally the same stuff can be recycled here as in Canada, with the noted exception that only plastics number 1 and 2 can be recycled. It is collected fortnightly and has by far the largest container. Probably 2 feet by 3 feet by 4.5 feet. Finally Red is used for anything else that is left...Red is for rubbish, and is collected fortnightly. The red container size is in between the other two.

I think it's a pretty good system, all things considered.