On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 06:59:59 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2019-03-23 5:48 a.m., wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:22:01 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2019-03-22 9:11 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 3/22/2019 8:59 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>> On 2019-03-22 6:33 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/22/2019 1:12 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Our system is the same except that RC is collected weekly, garbage
>>>>>>> every 2 weeks and organics the same (but weekly for the latter
>>>>>>> during the warmer months). I know I can put them out every week but
>>>>>>> I just don't bother if there's little in them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Garbage every 2 weeks?* I cannot imagine what the shrimp shells and
>>>>>> crab shells, disposable diapers would be like in summer.* In FL we
>>>>>> have garbage twice a week.
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't that a commentary on Floridean lifestyle?
>>>>
>>>> Not really.* People all over the country have babies that shit in
>>>> diapers.* Maybe more seafood in coastal regions, but there is all types
>>>> of rotting garbage all over the world.* I never saw a place that did not
>>>> have at least weekly pickup.* I don't want to store that stuff for 2
>>>> weeks.* We do have 2 pickups a week here though.
>>>
>>> Organics are picked up weekly in the warmer months when garden waste is
>>> abundant. Diapers go in the general garbage and you are right, stink to
>>> high heaven in the summer. But you can't have everything in life!
>>
>> Maybe if they stink the parents could switch to cloth diapers - even
>> those are far more practical than they were when my kids were babies.
>> My daughters used them for their kids and they are shaped cloth that
>> fits inside a plastic holder, look like disposables and these days if
>> both parents are working, there are dozens of diaper services
>> available.
>>
>> I can't even begin to think what it must be like in a dump with all
>> those diapers, what a thing to leave behind. The diaper manufacturers
>> should have been compelled to make them disintegrating in some way.
>>
>We used cloth ones for my sons. It became a morning routine for me to
>empty the bucket of dirty ones into the washing machine before I went to
>work.

With mine, I didn't have a washing machine, few people did. I had a
pull out boiler with a gas ring below it. Did the job admirably.