Lomtalanítás is a typical event of big city life. There is a certain period when you can put everything you dont need anymore to the street and the local government of your district will collect all the used funitures, fridges, TV sets..etc. This photo I took in the VIII. district (the poorest area of Budapest) where the lomtalanítás has just started.
A whole industry is around this event. As soon as it starts a lot of strange cars or carriages appear and people collect everything they find useful or worth to sell before the local government’s trucks arrive. A city-life strategy for surviving poverty….
We have that here, too.
The weekly garbage pickup is also to recycle – so people put out their aluminum cans – a whole bunch of cars drive through the neighborhoods all night to collect the cans & get the 5 cent deposit.
Many of the poorer people push shopping carts.
I guess it is the same all over the world except in those places where the very poor hang on to all of their meager possessions. Here, where I live, people set things out on what we call “trash day” and it will be picked up by the city garbage collection truck. But before it gets around to your house, the things you put outside will be seen by people who drive down the streets looking for things they can use or they can sell or they can trade for something else. Sometimes these people will collect a lot of things and then have what we call a “Garage Sale” and people will stop at their house and buy the things they have collected from trash days.
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scrap tvs can be good commodity due to the chips inside.
I’ve seen someone got so rich just by collecting them
maintenant en France, on doit ramener les vieilles televisions, frigidaires, etc… dans les magasins pour que cela soit recycler. je te souhaite un bon weekend
now in France, one must bring back old televisions, refrigerators, etc… in the stores so that that is to recycle. I wish you a good weekend
I kind of like these days – I like to watch what people throw out, and who takes away what… And if it can be recycled, great.
The sound of the trucks and workers clearing away the trash jarred me out of bed a couple months ago – it was so loud, I thought the street was being bulldozed!
Where I used to live in San Francisco, every day was “junk day.” If you put something out that you didn’t want, it would be picked up by someone within an hour. And if it wasn’t, some nosy neighbor would typically call the garbage company to complain about trash being dumped on the street so they would come and pick it up. I think the way it is done here is more efficient!