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Imagine you live in a neighborhood
where garbage management is not a problem. Once a week, you
and your neighbors place the trash and the recycling neatly
on the curb the evening before pickup. The next day, the garbage
and recycling trucks have emptied your cans and bins. You
do not need to think about garbage again until the next week.
Now imagine you live in a
different neighborhood. There are a variety of neglect and
garbage management problems. Once a week, residents place
their trash and sometimes recycling on the curb. However,
it is not very neat - there are piles of loose trash bags
and also loose trash and litter alongside the uncovered cans.
Like in our first neighborhood, in the morning, the trucks
come and collect the trash and recycling. But when you leave
for work, you still have to look at the piles of trash and
litter in front of the vacant lot across the street. Perhaps
the litter along the curb did not get taken away, and is blowing
onto your driveway. Worse still, at night you see rats scurrying
from the vacant lot to your front yard. On trash night, there
are rats eating into the loose trash bags and scattering the
litter further.
You just hope that they stay outside.
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