Quote Originally Posted by DakotaRog View Post
I don't know what "our local rubbish pickup" is if that's just eye-balling trash that people put out for pick-up or if you're actually talking about some centralized location that you can go through, but I do think "curb co" varies by regional and socio-economic geographies.

In my bedroom town (somewhere around 10,000) in the western Midwest, I did curb co every Monday morn for a couple of years for an hour or so from about 0545 through maybe 0700 if it went that long. It was about a 17 mile route that I did to cover most of the town. I certainly found some stuff sitting next to trash cans or sticking out of them but never to the quality that you've described on a daily basis or what I've seen in videos. I think people in my metro aren't inclined to throw much good stuff away. Things generally have to be pretty much broken down or worthless for people around here to toss. Thre's maybe a population density at play as well. The more people, the more stuff in a given amount of ground. I'm not doubting that some of you find gobs of good stuff, even on a very limited part-time basis, only that places can be different.
This is just trash that people put out by the curb for the regular pickup- next to tree branches, clippings, etc.