Rubbish:

In New Zealand and Canada, the rubbish still goes out weekly in plastic bags, which the householder has to buy -incredible, but at least it is sorted into recycleables by the house holder. In Oz we have 3 of those lovely big wheelie bins and all is collected y one driver weekly, with the householder doing the sorting.
Here in Mexico City it's a big job. Rubbish is collected daily and the rubbish collectors do all the sorting. Household rubbish all goes into clear plastic bags in the apartment, then down to the apartment rubbish holder, usually a 44 gallon container which is then left out on the street at the time of day your particular pick up is. When the truck arrives it parks and the collectors roll over the bins and the sorting begins. All the individual bags are emptied onto the back tray and the guys sort everything, glass, plastic, greens, cardboard, paper into it's appropriate container or bundle. By late in the day the trucks are piled high with stacks of cardboard and bags of all the sorted materials.I always worry as toilet paper isn't flushed here and goes out into the rubbish - yuk, but that is in a white plastic bag, but also to dog poop and the kitty litter all go into the one rubbish bag.

                                            I wouldn't want to be a garbo in Mexico City