Heh.  Our blue-collar public unions are so strong that trash days don’t change, holidays or no.  Guaranteed holiday pay!  (I do wonder how they pay the robot arm on the trash truck, though.)

My town contracts with private trash haulers. They don’t do holidays. The town says okayfine.

What does a robot arm do? I don’t think we’re that techno here.

It’s an automated system.  =Here’s a picture.  Basically each household is issued a whacking great bin into which trash is dumped.  The bin goes out onto the curb and the truck comes by, picks it up and dumps it into the truckbed.

Hmm.  How did that equals sign get in there?

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That’s a nice system. I wish we had something like that. we still have the old fashioned garbage trucks with the two or three brawny guys who empty the assortment of garbage cans and trash bags along the route. We’re supposed to only use the standard sized trash cans and, technically, we’re only supposed to put out two per week. That’s not rigidly enforced, though.