It has been warm recently, but today was cold and rainy. It was snowing in the mountains, a 2 hours' drive from here. It's fairly unusual. Various forms of highly unusual weather have been occuring worldwide. I feel gloomy about the abnormal climate.
Today is paper garbage collction day. We must separate recyclable from non-recyclable trash. We have to put paper trash into a paper bag and bind it with paper lines. It is prohibited to put it into plastic shopping bags or cardboard boxes, because they are not disposed of in the same way as paper. I'm afraid that the paper trash will gain weight absorbing the rain today.
The other day, I got an e-mail from the UK. It seems that all the trash is not burned up and thrown into the landfill in the UK. Consequently, they don't have to separate the trash in the UK. I was surprised to hear that. I'm not sure, but the UK has a certain reason why they don't burn it up.
On the other hand, in the case of Germany, I sometimes post entries at a couple of German blogs. The owner of one of those blogs kindly reads and corrects my writing in German. He told me about the collection of garbage in Germany. There are some kinds of containers in front of each house, with a larger container for apartments or dormitories. People throw garbage into the containers according to the rules; burnable or non-burnable and what it is made from. Which reminds me, I've seen such trash containers at Whistler in Canada. These containers can prevent the trash from getting wet on rainy days and keep bears or birds away from us. I think it's good, but I don't like to see those dirty containers all the time.
The photo shows the waste collection site that my family uses. It is just across the street from my house. It is raining today. Though the trash is wet and looks like a mess, it will be collected until 9 o'clock in the morning and the site will be tidy.
(Vocabulary)
gloomy 憂鬱(ゆううつ)な, 重苦しい
line 綱, ひも, 糸, ロープ
She was hanging laundry on the line. 彼女はロープに洗濯物を干していた．
dispose of sth
＜始末に困るものなど＞を処分［処理］する, 始末する
How did he dispose of the body? 彼はどうやって死体を始末したのだろう
(KW:ゴミ 分別収集 再利用)
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