Do you have trash pickers where you live?
Tomorrow is garbage collection day here, and I just spied one, in broad daylight, picking through a neighbors's trash left for collection.
How they can generate as much trash as they do is a mystery to me, but that's a topic for another thread.
These guys come through in old pickups and vans, looking mainly for metal items which have some value.
I use the recycling bin myself, and never put aluminum cans in it.
I sell those myself, cheap (child of uncertain parentage) that I am.
These guys never seem to cause any mess or other problems, and it seems to me that they serve a useful function in that they recover materials that might otherwise end up in landfills.
While they are probably not especially affluent, they at least show initiative in working for the few dollars they probably get for their haul.
I know that when I put my old mower that was really beyond saving out last summer, it was gone before I even got back to the house.
Do you have guys like this in your area, and if you do, do you see them as doing good or harm?
Tomorrow is garbage collection day here, and I just spied one, in broad daylight, picking through a neighbors's trash left for collection.
How they can generate as much trash as they do is a mystery to me, but that's a topic for another thread.
These guys come through in old pickups and vans, looking mainly for metal items which have some value.
I use the recycling bin myself, and never put aluminum cans in it.
I sell those myself, cheap (child of uncertain parentage) that I am.
These guys never seem to cause any mess or other problems, and it seems to me that they serve a useful function in that they recover materials that might otherwise end up in landfills.
While they are probably not especially affluent, they at least show initiative in working for the few dollars they probably get for their haul.
I know that when I put my old mower that was really beyond saving out last summer, it was gone before I even got back to the house.
Do you have guys like this in your area, and if you do, do you see them as doing good or harm?