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for the Plastics Round-up May 19 »  Victory: downsizing our
garbage can  In this rampant era of super-sized everything (have
you noticed lately you can buy a chocolate bunny as big as a
preschooler?), our family enters a new era by downsizing our
trash can and depositing less landfill waste.  We'd been using a
20-gallon garbage can for years, and filling it pretty much to
the brim each week due to having kids in disposable diapers for
the past 5 years. But the little one is now down to one
nighttime diaper a day, and our garbage can has become so light
I can lift it with one hand.  So I called the Troudt Brothers
(our sanitary and recycling carriers here in Hillsdale), and
asked if we could switch to a smaller size or less frequent
pickups. And we can! We now will put out our trash can the first
week of every month on our regular pickup day. We still get to
put out recycle bins weekly, a