Now why didn't I learn that years ago?
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lord_kjar he was living in an apartment, and like all apartments in this town there was a trash building at the complex with containers to sort our trash into various forms of recycling, compost, and what they call "burnable". When we bought the house, almost four years ago, it came with a city provided can for our burnable trash and another for compost, both of which the city empties regularly for us, but we are responsible for hauling away our own recycling. My understanding at the time was that this was because our house was just outside the city limits, and lord_kjar showed me a recycling collection spot at the next village further out from town where we could take the recycling.
At the time I assumed that since the city didn't take away recycling for the houses in the countryside that the collection stations were located in the countryside, and I thought no further on the topic.
We soon fell into a routine of being careful to wash our recycling before taking it to the shed, where it was sorted into different boxes by type, and we would put off hauling it off to the collection station till we had accumulated more than one box of each type and the shelves in that shed were truly full, since that collection spot was located a bit out of the way of anywhere we normally go.
Then, this year, I found out that there is another recycling station across the street from the university, near the little grocery store, and I started taking away the recycling a bit more often, when we had only one or two full boxes of a given type.
However, this new information didn't cause me to reevaluate my assumption that such stations are for countryside communities and never conveniently located . Noticing another such station in the village of Alvik, 20 minutes drive from here, right next to the site we use for Norrskensfest did nothing to change this assumption.
Yesterday C. suggested that today we should combine errands and take away not only the recycling, but also the "pant" (cans and bottles for which one gets a token amount of cash back when they are returned), the boxes of stuff to donate to the second hand store, and also do the grocery shopping on the same trip. I agreed because all tasks were needful, but, but it also sounded bothersome, since the recycling collection point is located the opposite direction from everything else. This surprised them, and she explained that she was thinking of using the station right next to the major grocery store. The one I have never noticed in more than five and a half years in this country, and never looked for as my base assumption was that it didn't exist. I don't quite feel stupid, but it does underscore the part about how we see what we are looking for.
In other news, today's email said:
"When I walked in this morning, she was so proud to show me that compared to yesterday, when she could barely lift the fingers on her right arm, now she could lift her full arm all the way up to her head! Absolutely amazing recovery for someone with a stroke. She is doing so well that they decided to go ahead and transfer her from Issaquah back to Seattle to a location that specializes in rehab.
They estimate that she will be in there for 7-10 days for rehab (originally they thought 2 weeks, but that was yesterday when she could barely use her hand)"
I am delighted to hear that, and am hoping that mom's entire recovery from this stroke goes well.
lord_kjar he was living in an apartment, and like all apartments in this town there was a trash building at the complex with containers to sort our trash into various forms of recycling, compost, and what they call "burnable". When we bought the house, almost four years ago, it came with a city provided can for our burnable trash and another for compost, both of which the city empties regularly for us, but we are responsible for hauling away our own recycling. My understanding at the time was that this was because our house was just outside the city limits, and lord_kjar showed me a recycling collection spot at the next village further out from town where we could take the recycling.At the time I assumed that since the city didn't take away recycling for the houses in the countryside that the collection stations were located in the countryside, and I thought no further on the topic.
We soon fell into a routine of being careful to wash our recycling before taking it to the shed, where it was sorted into different boxes by type, and we would put off hauling it off to the collection station till we had accumulated more than one box of each type and the shelves in that shed were truly full, since that collection spot was located a bit out of the way of anywhere we normally go.
Then, this year, I found out that there is another recycling station across the street from the university, near the little grocery store, and I started taking away the recycling a bit more often, when we had only one or two full boxes of a given type.
However, this new information didn't cause me to reevaluate my assumption that such stations are for countryside communities and never conveniently located . Noticing another such station in the village of Alvik, 20 minutes drive from here, right next to the site we use for Norrskensfest did nothing to change this assumption.
Yesterday C. suggested that today we should combine errands and take away not only the recycling, but also the "pant" (cans and bottles for which one gets a token amount of cash back when they are returned), the boxes of stuff to donate to the second hand store, and also do the grocery shopping on the same trip. I agreed because all tasks were needful, but, but it also sounded bothersome, since the recycling collection point is located the opposite direction from everything else. This surprised them, and she explained that she was thinking of using the station right next to the major grocery store. The one I have never noticed in more than five and a half years in this country, and never looked for as my base assumption was that it didn't exist. I don't quite feel stupid, but it does underscore the part about how we see what we are looking for.
In other news, today's email said:
"When I walked in this morning, she was so proud to show me that compared to yesterday, when she could barely lift the fingers on her right arm, now she could lift her full arm all the way up to her head! Absolutely amazing recovery for someone with a stroke. She is doing so well that they decided to go ahead and transfer her from Issaquah back to Seattle to a location that specializes in rehab.
They estimate that she will be in there for 7-10 days for rehab (originally they thought 2 weeks, but that was yesterday when she could barely use her hand)"
I am delighted to hear that, and am hoping that mom's entire recovery from this stroke goes well.
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Date: 2016-08-28 01:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-08-28 06:02 pm (UTC)We live in a town in a rural area -- a town right on the border of a national park. We've have kerbside recycling for years since I've lived here for paper, cardboard, aluminium, tin and plastic. Glass had to go to a bottle bank -- the nearest ones are at the supermarkets. Batteries can be recycled at supermarkets as well. Other things, such as paint cans and electronics, have to go to the tip ("dump" in US English), which is in a very rural area, so you need a car. (I think there may be services that will pick it up for you if you don't have a car. There may be charges. We take our garden waste to the tip where it is mulched, but I know that there's a weekly pick up for it otherwise for a small fee.) A couple of years, glass was added to the kerbsite services. It's only once a month, but they gave us a rather big, heavy plastic bin for it. We rarely fill it monthly. However, it made life easier than having to haul away all of the glass.