Here are 2 of the garbage receptacles on our andador. There are 2 more pairs on the same block. You can see the design flaw. Or the wisdom in the design, depending on your point of view. It's hard to fit even a small bag of garbage in them. But we deposit our small bags frequently and manage. Maybe that's the intent: small and frequent.
The people who empty the receptacles--women, mostly--patrol the historic center of town day and night, wearing orange outfits, pushing orange carts and wielding brooms made with real broom straw. They empty the receptacles as frequently as we and our neighbors fill them up, and they also pick up litter in the streets and on the sidewalks and plazas.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are recycling days. We stack our containers of bottles, plastic, metal and cardboard outside the receptacles in the evening. Next morning they are magically gone.
Here are two pictures of the women at work, day and night.
Our andador is also hosed down frequently (weekly, it seems) by the city. The result is a city center that, for all its hustle, bustle, outdoor events, and pedestrian traffic, is remarkably clean.
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