So, this doesn't look like much, but it is the glass bottle recycling for our building. The recycling can itself is full, so we've had to add our bottles in plastic bags for the "guys" to pick up.
The interesting ideas about this are: 1) everyone in the building takes the glass recycling seriously 2) there are a LOT of bottles in our recycling considering how few people live in our building 3) the amazing recycling truck that picks up this load.
Where do I start? First we have several trash cans to choose from. The big green topped cans are for normal, household trash. This is picked up every day of the week except Sunday. Next, the yellow topped can which is for (weirdly enough: paper and cardboard, plastics and small household appliances) sorry, no idea how this all works! The last bin is the skinny, white-topped trash can that is earmarked for glass. In Paris, most of the contents of this can consists of wine and beer bottles. Oops! Why is this can always overflowing? Are people too eager to recycle? Or...
I was surprised that there is a special truck for the glass recycling. I watched the truck today. It arrives and the workers put the cans on a platform. Two fit at one time. Then a mechanism in the truck lifts the cans slowly over the back of the truck, eventually turning the cans upside-down and emptying the contents into the truck. Voila! Crash-Crash-Crash! All the bottles tumble loudly into the truck, the cans arrive on the sidewalk and the truck moves on.
All the ills of yesterday are erased and the can is empty, ready for today's bottles.
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