Time for a corny joke!
Q: Where does the Lone Ranger take his garbage?
A: To the dump, to the dump, to the dump-dump-dump...
I saw this 60 Minutes report once about the garbage system in Cairo. Most of the people there are Moslems with high cleanliness standards, so they let the Christian minority handle their garbage. It's easier to stay clean when there are other people less fussy about it!
Ever see those trash dumpsters near construction sites? I remember the movie Purple Rain, where Prince had this flamboyant rival (Morris Day, who stole the show). In one scene the rival got accosted by his girlfriend, so he had his assistant throw her into a dumpster!
I also remember this movie Moonlighting, where Jeremy Irons was leading a group of Polish workers in London renovating a communist official's apartment. (He heard that the Solidarity movement had been suppressed, but didn't tell the others because he wanted the job finished first.) In one scene they were filling a dumpster with all the rubble from their work, but their neighbours all took to putting their own garbage in it, so it got overloaded, and when the dumpster got taken away half the rubble got left behind. Some neighbours! (I've just been reading a book about Polish history.)
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