Für Elise is trash
I really don't think Für Elise is trash, but now every time I hear it I think of garbage. Much like the Ice Cream truck playing Scott Joplins rag "The Entertainer", the garbage trucks in Taipei City play Ludwig Von Beethoven's bagatelle to announce that they are there and ready to pick up the refuse.
Trash in Taiwan is very organized. Official garbage bags must be used. A tax on the bag pays for the frequent trash pick up. Your trash much be organized into paper (for recycling), food waste (which is given to pig farmers for feed), plastic bottles (also for recycling) and another category I cannot remember.
Despite this system trash can still be found in some streets and alleys, abandoned lots and of course the river wherein I have been paddling for Dragon Boat practice for the past 6 weeks. Today it rained and one of the team members said, "Just think, the rain is cleaner than the river so you are getting a shower." Everyone laughed. But someone also mentioned that it was probably more acidic. Who knows, maybe by the end of the race I'll end up with a third eye and a tail.
Trash in Taiwan is very organized. Official garbage bags must be used. A tax on the bag pays for the frequent trash pick up. Your trash much be organized into paper (for recycling), food waste (which is given to pig farmers for feed), plastic bottles (also for recycling) and another category I cannot remember.
Despite this system trash can still be found in some streets and alleys, abandoned lots and of course the river wherein I have been paddling for Dragon Boat practice for the past 6 weeks. Today it rained and one of the team members said, "Just think, the rain is cleaner than the river so you are getting a shower." Everyone laughed. But someone also mentioned that it was probably more acidic. Who knows, maybe by the end of the race I'll end up with a third eye and a tail.