I’ve dreamed of transforming an entire wall of our kitchen into small appliance and food storage area. We have a lot of space in our kitchen, not terribly well laid out or utilized.
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It was a HUGE deal here when they dropped our backyard garbage pick-up. It hasn’t been that long ago - maybe 15 years? They threatened to take it away for years, and then everyone would write letters to the editor about how would the elderly be able to get their cans to the street?!
We always took ours to the street. In the beginning we had a Rottweiler who stayed in the (fenced) backyard. She hated the garbagemen as it was. And then neither of us want people wandering in our back yards when we’re not home. But most people loved this option!
We’ve had raccoons get into ours from time to time. No bears. Sometimes they wander through the city, but not often enough to be a big problem with garbage.
Reading the various methods some people have to take to haul their trash/recyclables to a central city location makes me feel incredibly lucky & lazy! We have city issued bins; 1 for trash, 1 for recyclables, on wheels that I can’t manage to take down to the curb (again, because I’m lazy) so my husband is always on duty for that. Granted, it will often be me who wheels them back up at the end of the day but sometimes H does that too. He works from home, while I do not, and he’s always looking for an excuse to get out of his desk chair, so there’s that. It’s fairly equal on who takes the trash from kitchen to bins though. Don’t get me started on who unloads the dishwasher the most. Also, not me!
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Yes, we have wheeled trash cans issued by city that are picked up curbside weekly and every 2 weeks we get recycled cardboard, metal & some plastic curbside in city issued rolling bin. The alternate 2 weeks we get green waste picked up curbside in rolling bin also issued by city.