Trash day

This weekend there was a story in the International Herald Tribune about trash collection in Switzerland. While it's mainly about Zurich, just about all of it applies equally to Basel (instead of Zuri-Sacks, we have Bebbi-Saggs). I could be wrong, but I'd say it takes us at least three weeks, if not more, to produce as much trash as we would produce in a typical week at home. It probably helps that I take paper recycling to work every day...