Trashman finds me $250 for not organizing my trash, so I comply with his exact instructions.

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I live in a consolidated county. That means that the city and county governments merged some years back,

ostensibly to reduce administrative and infrastructure costs.

This is important because services like fire, police, utilities, and trash pickup are now managed by former county officials, and not the city officials.

Many of these services are also much more inefficient, and some services have been

outsourced to private companies. My municipality outsourced trash and yard waste pick up a few

years ago, and the two companies who now do those collections are woefully inadequate. And their

services cost more than when the city or county did it. They both have similar sets of rules what can be put out for collection, take fewer types

of waste away, and no longer come two days a week as the city once did, but now only come

one day a week.

We're all paying more money for less service.

Now that the background is done, here's the story.

I did some yard work over the course of a couple weekends last summer,

cutting some limbs, trimming some shrubbery, and cutting down a dead tree in my backyard.

Knowing what the rules are for how much yard waste, limbs, leaves, and such can be put out,

I bagged everything that was supposed to be bagged, filling up three

of them, things like leaves and small clippings and weeds and such.

The paper bags for yard waste from the big box home improvement stores are what they require,

so I use those.

I just fill them halfway up so as not to make them too heavy for the waste collectors,

even though there

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