I was up early Thursday morning, so around ten minutes to seven, I heard the garbage trucks crashing around out front. I decided to go to the window and have a look. They had just hooked two of the black garbage bins onto the truck and were dumping them in. Unhooked those, then hooked up another black bin, and a blue bin, the one ostensibly for recycling. I watched as the recycling seemed to be dumped right into where the trash had just gone. Hmm, I thought. That’s kind of odd. Are they really taking all of it to the same place, and the sorting and recycling is all for naught?

The only explanation I can think of is that maybe the truck was reconfigured somehow in between loads, so that the right side somehow became the recycling box. I wonder if I should call or something.

It kind of made me want to start sorting our recycling myself and driving it to a known recycling center, which is in our neighborhood. It’s just one of my things, that little pang of guilt at thinking of landfills overflowing with plastic bottles and so forth.