The Dump - "La Dechetterie"

I know that many of you spent a sleepless night in anticipation of the Tale of the Dump - Le Conte de la Dechetterie.  Well, it was a night well spent!  Here's the blow by blow recount of the experience...

Down in Ahriel and Nicole's storage area are bins for all the various types of recyclable items.  First order of business was adding the current crop of recycle items from the kitchen.  Then, as you can see from Ahriel's victorious posture, we were confident of eventually getting everything in it's place.

The bins were easy to work with - each having a flip top so that items could be sorted in advance to make things much easier at the recycle drop-off area.  Eventually we got all the bins in Ahriel's Subaru Forester and headed off for the recyclers.

Then the excitement really hit a crescendo!  There were many people from the local communities dropping things off in the huge bins.  The area is only open for a few hours twice a week - so it's a real community event.  The first area was for dropping off compostable items (we had none) and then there was a big pile of the final compost available for gardens.  We drove past them and parked with a bunch of other cars for the Separation of Items(tm).

Ours were pretty much straight forward.  Paper here, cardboard there, glass bottles (depending on color of glass in separate bins), and plastic bottles (they are called "PET" for some reason) in their own bin with the caps in the neighboring bin.

There were a few surprises for me - but probably they should have been expected.  For instance:











Corks from wine bottles!












Capsules from the very popular coffee machines.

Eventually we had everything in their right bins and we headed back home with the knowledge of a job well done.