"Trailer trash!"
I have grown tired of dealing with "trailer trash." That's right "trailer trash." It's personal for me. I can't believe that we don't have any real solutions for it. Most
RVrs don't even mention "trailer trash" because it is something we are ashamed of mentioning, and seem to have no control
over. There is even Motorhome trash." Not
to mention "Pop up trash!" It is a subject rarely brought up amongst us RVrs,
but I'll deal with it here.
Didja ever notice that no matter what rig you choose, within a
day or so of parking in what you thought was the perfect site, you have to deal with "Trailer, Motorhome or pop-up trash?" Why do the manufacturers not acknowledge this very real issue and provide a solution? Why do they put little trash bag holders for one-quart plastic bags behind a tiny
door and think that it would hold our trash? For even one day? I have seen one or two RVs with a real space for trash, but seldom.
Then we go to a liberal state, that shall remain unnamed, to protect
the three fine folks who are trying to leave it as this is written, and they want us not only to deal with our one quart trash
holder, but to then sort our trailer trash into neat little packages of plastics, metals, and paper products, and a fourth
quart bag of organic materials. They call it recycling; I call it dirty hands! So the average RVr, with only space for one-tenth of a bag of trailer trash now has
to do three?
And what about the garbage collectors? Ever notice that after all that work they throw them all in the same truck?
What's up with that?
Not to mention my beer cans.
Boy, they charge a deposit on them in some places and you have to collect them all and bring them to a place called
a recycling center. This is usually located in an alley behind a large grocery
store or mall, and there is a guy with various weighing and crushing appliances, official state signs saying that this must
be the place, who takes about an hour to do your load of cans, and turns each one upside down to be sure you emptied it according
to directions! Accck! The whole
process involves walking in coke goop, (from those dirty nasty people who did not empty according to directions, and drink
sugar loaded, caffeine saturated, sticky nasty stuff! My beer droppings are non
sticky, and kills slugs amongst other environmentally friendly properties) and
dealing with lines of other tired people that only want to get rid of their trash!!!
Then you cross state lines, and instead of wanting nice crushed
cans, they are horrified if you even dent them! They want you to deposit whole,
un-dented cans, into slots in a recycling vending machine. But they never posted
a warning on the four cases of beer you bought warning you that "Now you are in our state, and instead of requiring you to
crush your beer cans, we want them pristine and with no dents or we get to keep your deposit sucka!" Or Vice Versa.
Then there are the various ways that RV parks deal with collecting
the trailer trash. A few asked us to put it in a very handy trash container right
outside our door. Others asked us to put our trailer trash into a plastic bag
and put it outside for daily collection. Then others have two giant dumpsters
you can put it in. Ever notice that the parks with two giant dumpsters also have
4,500 RV spaces, and the dumpsters are conveniently located across an area to hike approximately the size of Luxembourg??
Not to mention Alaska,
where there are real bears and other assorted varmints that not only walk around camping areas, but can eat the campers too! There they require you to deposit your Trailer Trash into armor plated, bear proof
containers, with locking mechanisms designed to fool the bears into thinking that they can't open them!
What actually happens is that the bears, who can open the containers
in about 1/30th of a second, have discovered that if they just wait till a camper tries to throw away their trailer
trash, they will be there for about 20 min reading the directions! Yummy!
OK I am for the environment.
It is the only one we have right? Recycling is a good thing. And we all have to do our part. But how do we do it when we
only have room for one small plastic bag behind the door under the sink?
I think it is the responsibility of the manufacturers and the
parks. Maybe we can put three of those doggy door kinds of thingies in the kitchen
area of every RV that dump all of our stuff right into standardized trailer trash cans provided at each park. Then we can use one, two or all three!
But we really gotta do something about those beer can standards. By the fourth or fifth beer, how ya gonna remember whether to crush or preserve?
What was the question again?
Oh yeah . . . what I am trying to say as succinctly as possible-check to see if there is a good solution for trash
storage in your new rig.
