Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-33904527-20181130223415/@comment-35711173-20181201100658

Bloody Spaghetti,

I can't believe it, but I am arguing over physical realities of trash pick up.

In the USA, a common residential trash truck is almost the size of a bus. Eight meters long, four meters tall. It doesn't look in the residential bins. It picks them up and dumps them.

Trash trucks loading commercial skips or dumpsters are bigger still. They really do pick up the whole skip and dump it into the truck, all at once. Many of these trucks do compact the waste. CRUNCH!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_truck

This is why you have to be careful when dumpster diving in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_diving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_truck