@helenczerski @davidho Every morning at coffee we must stop talking for a minute while the diesel garbage truck groans up the hill, spewing smoke and leaving a trail of rotten organic molecules. (Otherwise a nice cafe though.)

@helenczerski @davidho it's pretty cool but why are they mixing all the separated waste into one pipe?

Strong Duff brewery vibes.

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@thiagocsf @davidho If you keep digging through all the information (I did), they say that it's such a smart system that it can sort out all the different packages when they arrive at the recycling plant. They know exactly what's going in, where it is, and when it arrives. It accumulated underneath each bin until there's enough to go in one package, and they can track those packages.

@helenczerski @thiagocsf @davidho Which is kinda the general-case answer; the pipe is expensive (buried downtown!) and you don't need it all the time plus you're moving discrete stuff rather than fluids so nearly anything you do to manage waste sorting that doesn't require another pipe is less expense than individual plumbing would be.

It does make me wonder if they've got a "another enterprising squirrel in bin A391" issue, and if so, what they do about it.

@robpike @helenczerski @davidho Reminds me of the diesel truck that used to belch out fumes while delivering bottled water ("fresh from the spring") to my workplace. We switched to using tap water.

@robpike @helenczerski @davidho You get a garbage truck every day? Damn. What kind of woke commie beta-soy dictatorship is that?!

@robpike @helenczerski @davidho I just recently realised some of our garbage trucks are electric now. Because I heard the sound of bins being emptied, but the house didn't shake before and after to the droning sound of a diesel engine! 🤯

(our street has blocks of flats on both sides which seem to be the perfect distance apart to resonate with low frequency sounds of car and truck engines 🙄 )