are there bins outside apartment complexes or dumpsters posted here and there? do you just put your trash out on the curb and sign up for some kind of collection service?
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I live 1 hour south of Paris in a medium sized city. We have our wheelie bin collected twice weekly- Monday and Thursday. We wheel the bin out to a collection point on the curb as we live in a cul-de-sac but if you live on a main road you just put it in front of your house. The cost is covered by a local tax called taxe d'habitation which also covers street lights etc
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Your local taxes pay for a garbage collection service handled by the city's services. The bins (green plastic ones on wheels) are usually in a small dedicated room in the building and people put their garbage in them. Green top is for food garbage, yellow top if for plastic, cardboard, paper..., white top if for glass. Green garbage trucks go through the streets twice a week to collect garbage in the bins provided by the city. If you lose yours tough for you, you pay for a new one. You put your bins outside in the street in the morning and pick them up when they are emptied. For bigger items you put them in the street and call a number at the city hall to tell them about it, a small truck will come by to pick it up. The service is free as you have already paid for it with your local taxes.
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I have visited Paris many times, but have not lived there, so I don't know from a local viewpoint. However, I do know that garbage collection in Paris is DAILY and people put their garbage bags on the street curbs (especially the bigger streets) for collection. The stores and restaurants do this too. IT is paid for by taxes so everyone gets garbage collection.
