As Americans living in Ireland, one of the differences we had to get used to was in how we get rid of things. We were used to putting trash in the trash can, and letting the garbage truck pick it up regularly. Now we put rubbish in the rubbish bin, and let the bin lorry collect it. The bin lorry comes once a week, but it only collects rubbish fortnightly (every other week), in a green bin. On the other weeks, we put out a blue bin that is only for recycling. Some folks also have red bins for glass, or brown bins for compostables. We found out quickly that the recycling bin is very important: if you don’t fill it with everything you can possibly recycle, then the rubbish bin will fill up long before the two weeks is up and it’s ready to be collected again. And don’t even think about putting out an extra bin. They won’t take it. In fact, we’ve had messages before saying that they won’t take the bin if it’s too full for the lid to fit down properly (thankfully they seem to be a bit lenient on that rule these days). All this adds up to Seth occasionally looking over his shoulder to make sure the neighbours aren’t watching while he jumps on top of the green bin to try and squeeze just a bit more in…