As common as it is to see WM collecting trash manually in, say, Florida, it is a rare sight here in California. Carlsbad is one of the last cities where completely manual collection is still going strong, with two-stream recycling in crates, and trash as well as greens in customer-provided cans. The truck you'll see here is the main kind that collects in the city of Carlsbad, just up the coast from San Diego. A split version of this same truck would be doing the recycling, and another front loader on a Volvo chassis (most commonly) is what does the yard waste. This was filmed right after Christmas of 2009, the same day that I caught the Heil POD on video actually. You'll notice quite a lot of cardboard being taken with the trash here, I'm sure it can be argued that that doesn't resemble WM's policy of "Think Green" so well. It might be that they only do that around Christmas when people stuff cardboard boxes with all their trash and set that out...Comment on the video please! I worked hard for this and wasted too much of my time editing it as well! Hope you enjoy it though!
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