Garbage is on everyone's mind today as well as (still) on their curb.  Allied Waste workers went out on strike yesterday and the Daily Journal is reporting the revised schedule as

Customers scheduled for a Wednesday pickup will be serviced on Friday;
Customers scheduled for a Thursday pickup will be serviced on Saturday;
Customers scheduled for a Friday pickup will be serviced on Sunday.

Regular services is expected next week.

The SF Examiner has a piece today that I have been meaning to cover on the new company, Recology, and the single-stream recycling that is coming to B'game.  We have received mailers saying that we would get our new bins the week of Nov 25th.

The containers, which will carry recyclable paper, plastic, aluminum and glass in a single bin, will be distributed to homes and businesses in the cities between East Palo Alto and Burlingame that make up the South Bayside Waste Management Authority. The authority’s 92,000 residential customers will also get a new black cart for garbage and a green cart for organic material.

The new bins are part of the takeover of the authority’s collection service by San Francisco-based Recology, which won a hotly contested bidding process in 2008 for a 10-year contract. Allied Waste, the current contractor, will continue to run collection until Recology takes over Jan. 1.