In every garbage bag ever

eggshells, orange rinds, coffee grounds

expired diapers, unredeemed applebee's gift certificates, chimp nits

duraflame log splinters, billiards chalk dust, fluorescent twist ties

bookglue, seaport streudel, turtle soup nightmares

shredded tissues, rusty staples, missing teaspoons

colcannon, swarf, remorse

littoral grits, the tights of retired tumblers, ketchup dregs, receipts from hhgregg, eclair dust, vcr tape head cleaner evaporate

ectoplasm, countrified vinegar, rancid salad oil

AOL CDs that were on the top of a bookshelf for over a decade.

tuna hoagie wrappers, withered friendships

People used to just dump loose garbage into metal garbage cans and put it out to be collected (i.e. emptied), didn't they. That seems so crazy now. I think that was the case in New York, but also in many other cities... suburbs, etc.

my dad used to burn it in a barrel behind the garage lol

i bet your neighbors loved him

well, we lived kind of rural.. but 'burn barrels' were pretty ubiquitous back in the day

interested in the thread reboot, however

For one, orange rinds and coffee grounds belong in the compost, even eggshells.

Can't answer this in England because every municipality has wildly different recycling rules. This can lead to some Kafka-esque complications when visiting other towns; even towns very close-by.

It's because in the early 2000s a rule got introduced saying that all councils had to provide at least two types of recycling. But it was never specified which kind, so every town council went their own way. Luckily, I believe, everything's going to get standardised at some point in the next couple of years, so every garbage bag (bin bag) will contain at least one common item.

I grew up in a fairly urban setting and we had an incinerator in our basement, essentially a metal box with an eternal flame in it for cremating garbage. Seems kinda crazy now.

We used to drink from the hose etc.

Can't answer this in England because every municipality has wildly different recycling rules.

Hackney currently has a system that can't handle the compostable packaging you get with a lot of food, disposable cups and wrapping for magazines; we are advised to throw that in with general waste. So it's a regular ocurrence for me to bin a piece of fabric that has DO NOT PUT THIS IN GENERAL WASTE THIS IS COMPOSTABLE written in huge letters on it.

the clowns in my building think EVERYTHING is recyclable.. bubble wrap? sure! Mylar bags? hell yeah, toss em in... it doesn't help that they put the triangle on all kinds of shit that maybe, possibly could be recycled somewhere but 99.9% chance it's heading straight to the landfill

Sure, couch cushions are recyclable

oh, GIANT pieces of styrofoam... I wanna find out who's doing those