The kitchen garbage was pretty full this morning, and while we generally wouldn't think twice about leaving it sit until sometime later this week, today we wanted to get a look at the garbage outside, so we dumped the morning's coffee grounds, tied up the bag and hauled it outside. Seattlest lives in the top unit of a duplex and we share our garbage with the couple downstairs: that's Seattlest plus Seattlest's lovely fiance plus Seattlest's two cats plus the two people downstairs and their dog. The four humans in our building and our twelve legged pet friend usually produce three to five bags of garbage a week. It fits in two cans which we store IN FRONT of the building in a wooden structure that it looks like the landlord hired a team of four-year-olds to build. Apparently our landlord is unfamiliar with the concept of "curb appeal." more ›

Teamsters Local 174 has voted to authorize a strike. Local 174 members work for Waste Management Inc. and Allied Waste Industries Inc. meaning, yes, they're garbage men or waste management engineers or whatever. They're looking for health coverage improvements, safer working conditions and less mandatory overtime from their contract renegotiations or they're going to stop working and we know you've always been a fan of organized labor and that a garbage strike sounds very New York or Paris, but we bet it could get pretty unpleasant around Week 2. more ›

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