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Rubrick post with the link to Panda shows a large yellow dumpster (once in a life time,clean out the house/renovation dumpster,) and in the bottom photo, a smaller yellow dumpster, and behind it, on a lift a dempsey dumpster style dumpster. about 1/8 the size of once in a life time skip.
Some dumpsters have pole at either side, and are mechanical lifed, like Jo picture. some are front loaders.. (these trucks are cheaper to operate. the driver drive up to the dumpster, a lift arm grab the dumpster, lifts it up, and it empties it out in to the top of the truck. in some places these are one man crews.. in other place 2 man crew. the kind Jo pictured are 3 man crews.. a driver and 2 guys loading the dumpsters.
NY has DEP (dept of environmental protection--aka san men.. aka garbage men)san man is from the old dept of sanatation. they only pick up household trash. commercial trash, is still very much "organized" . the trash, (as is well known) goes to New Jersey-- the garden state! the meadowland sports center (a collection of arenas, one for horses, one for football, one for hockey) are all build on "land fill" (aka NY garbage, and aka-Jimmy Hoffa's graveyard.) NY used to build mountains out of trash.. (it a problem.. Statan island has the highest point of land in NY, actually the two highest points.. one natual, and one man made..) Now we ship it to NJ, to be carted off somewhere, (shades of Bleak House, there are fortunes to be found in dust heaps!)about 60% of the former WTC passed thru NJ. I don't know how much stayed there.
NY Flushing meadow (home to 2 worlds fairs) is where NYC dumped ashes for 100 years...it was a swamp. now its a giant ash field. with 0.5 inch of soil and grass.. and called a park.
we too, recycle. 3 seperate collections, an extra in the fall for leaves.
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I often drive past a large poster advertisement for an Edinburgh "heavy drinking - late night establishment". It says in large letters "big jugs, well hung". I can only assume that it relates to the way that the pitchers (to USn's) are arranged over the bar.
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Well, I suspect that it depends on whether your definition of 'jugs' is kept in the cupboard or the gutter. Likewise as to whether it is a 'who' or a 'what' that is well hung....
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Well done rkay, I'm glad someone is awake. I'll leave the full interpretation to the imagination - we don't want to upset Ron Obvious do we?
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Carpal Tunnel
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You are all just wonderful! Thank you for all the great links.
I think your decorated Wheelie Bins are a hoot! Ours tend to be very plain ( read boring) colors, black, brown and -for the adventurous- blue! I'd love to have one of yours as the only place I have for my trash barrell is near my main door! (What was the architect thinking?)
It appears that skips and Pandas are similar to Dempsey Dumpsters ... here it is a proprietary name as the inventor was a man named Dempsey.
Again, many thanks and big hugs all around. Aloha!
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