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Maybe looking at your Wyze cameras and wondering âWhat does that red light mean?â.
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Seems a little strange under most circumstances.
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Definitely odd.
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At least you know where they live.
I introduced myself to all of my neighbors around me and they seem okay. My neighbor across the street walked halfway up my driveway and turned around and left. I never got to asked him why. He died soon after. People are curious by nature. Some more than others.
BTW, as a curious human, what are the black plastic garbage cans for? i only have green and blue. Best guess I can think of is ashes from the fireplace?
My in-laws municipality uses 3 cans:
- Garbage
- Recycling
- Green Waste (grass, leaves, branches, etc)
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What color is the garbage can? I guess Recycling is blue?
We have green for any garbage/trash or up to two bodies in a 96 gallon cart.
We also have blue for recycling.
No black though.
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Thatâs how it is in my municipality too. Green=garbage, Blue=Recycling.
I think for my in-laws though, it was that green is green-waste. IIRC, I think I went to throw something away in theirs Green can and saw it piled up with grass, then read that it was labeled as green waste and thought that was weird, and then threw it in the black one instead. But itâs possible it was other way around. I just remember one of them was green waste and Iâd never heard of that before as a municipality-endorsed disposal program.
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Green = green waste (yard trimmings mostly)
Blue = recycle
Black = everything else
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Color = whatever you have
County taxes paid for automated waste sifter/segregation/sorter machines at landfills so we arenât burdened and refuse disposal company bill is less expensive.
Ours used to be that way - but it was not automated sorting, it was rows of low paid workers. As I recall, California changed that to require pre-pickup sorting.
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In my neck of the woods we have three bins, green for compostables, blue for recycling and black for everything else.
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In my area, we can choose our waste service provider (Waste Management, Republic, Aspen).
We use Aspen and the bins are dark Grey. The bigger one is trash, the smaller one with a green recycle symbol on it is recycling. We donât use lawn waste (we mulch our leaves and my dad comes and picks up sticks to burn in bonfires at his property on the river).
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Interesting thread.
In days of old (decades) we would put out the trash. It didnât matter if the trash filled up the can, you could put out bags. One time about 25 years ago, I cut up a couch, bagged it, trash person took it, all 10 bags.
Then the recycling began. Now we had 2 trash cans and I had to rearrange where the cans were during the week. Arghhh.
Then we move to a new county.
Green is yard waste
Blue is recycling
Black/brown is everything else
And twice a year weâre allowed a couple of bags.
Need a spreadsheet to keep up with it.
What did catch my attention is about 15 years ago one of my kids had a field trip to the local trash facility. What I saw changed my view. The garbage truck would pull up to a long assembly line.
A dozen or so sorters would then pick the line and sort it by recycling, yard waste, electronics etc etc.
I remember saying to selfâwhy am I doing this.
The recycling campaigns must be working as all 4 of my kids have chastised me when they think I have not properly sorted the garbage 
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Here it is
Brown for trash
Blue for recycle
Green for green waste like grass, clean wood, leaves.
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Thanks everyone. It is interesting how there is not much of a standard.
We use Republic. We just have green for everthing but recycle and blue for recycle.
On Mondays we have bulk trash day. Anything bulk from tree limbs to sofas can be placed within the swale.
I threw away two 43" inch TVs in the green bucket/cart. Each one at a time. You could get two bodies in the green one. I have lawn service so grass waste is minimal.
Growing up we had two metal cans in the back alley. We just dumped in brown grocery bagged trash. Very smelly.
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Recycle here sucks. They only take the #1, #2 and #5 plastic. No glossy paper ?, no metal either except aluminum and tin cans .And to top it off they want all the glass containers/jars/bottles washed and dry , not going to happen at my house. 
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They donât inspect my trash. The guy uses a mechanical arm and dumps the can into the truck. I always wonder if I will get a notice or garbage wonât be picked up.
The garbage police havenât been here yet either. I donât put anything with my name and address in the containers. 
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At my parentsâ house, they found out it is:
- Black for general garbage
- Blue is actually also for general garbage but it has to be pretend recycling, however, it still goes to the exact same place as the stuff in the black ones, but if you fill it with non-recyclables youâll still get fined for trying to pay for a second trashcan at a cheaper rate. You can only use it for pretend recycling.
Seriously, the city/county got exposed for NEVER recycling at all in the whole decade+ that theyâve been doing it. Every single recycle bin has just been treated the exact same as the trash bins the entire time, and still is to this day. They go to the same spot in the landfill. No processing. But they will still fine people for putting the wrong stuff in them. 
I wish I was making it up.
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