Our Afvalpass is Working!
Here in Amstelveen, garbage and recycling goes into underground containers that get emptied by truck once in a while. The recyclables are all open-access, but the garbage container requires an RFID card to unlock.
Our card stopped working last week, so we've had a bag of garbage sitting in the hallway outside our unit since, like, Thursday. (As far as I can tell, we're the only people living in our 3-unit apartment cluster above the electronics store, otherwise I wouldn't have left it out there.) Miriam called on Friday to find out what was up, and they said they'd call us back on Monday.
Turns out that, in Amstelveen (and probably other places that have them?), the garbage cards (afvalpassen) are tied to addresses. When you move, you leave the card in the apartment/house for the next residents. Ours, though, was assigned to apartment C instead of our unit, A. C just reported their card missing (why now after we've been here a year? I still never see anyone there) and got a new one, so ours was deactivated. But ours is supposed to be working again today (it takes a day to process through the system), so I can bring our stinky garbage out. Yay!
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Also, still playing the old gold box games. I made it through Pool of Radiance and am on to Curse of the Azure Bonds. The interface improvements are *so* good!
Our card stopped working last week, so we've had a bag of garbage sitting in the hallway outside our unit since, like, Thursday. (As far as I can tell, we're the only people living in our 3-unit apartment cluster above the electronics store, otherwise I wouldn't have left it out there.) Miriam called on Friday to find out what was up, and they said they'd call us back on Monday.
Turns out that, in Amstelveen (and probably other places that have them?), the garbage cards (afvalpassen) are tied to addresses. When you move, you leave the card in the apartment/house for the next residents. Ours, though, was assigned to apartment C instead of our unit, A. C just reported their card missing (why now after we've been here a year? I still never see anyone there) and got a new one, so ours was deactivated. But ours is supposed to be working again today (it takes a day to process through the system), so I can bring our stinky garbage out. Yay!
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Also, still playing the old gold box games. I made it through Pool of Radiance and am on to Curse of the Azure Bonds. The interface improvements are *so* good!