The best item that the Cobb County attached to their bid list for private waste companies was the requirement that they offer recycling pick-up. It fills with bottles and cans, catalogs, food and shipping boxes, pretty much anything on their pick-up list. Our recycling bin fills up about every two weeks and is put out for pick up. Recycling is something that I do with fervor. To apparently completely switch gears on you here, I'd like to talk about recycling. The chorus line is probably the most well known part of the song with the group singing the teenager's response to the list, 'Yakety Yak!' followed by a bass singing 'Don't talk back.' And if you click that Yakety Yak link above, you can actually listen to the song (followed by some weird electronica stuff) and read the lyrics. You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no moreThe song also includes a fun saxophone track played by King Curtis.

The whole basis of Yakety Yak is to list the chores for a particularly sassy teenager along with the consequences for not doing them. You can find more information about trash in Voorschoten on the municipality website.The Coasters had a kitschy hit in 1958 and if you grew up watching television in the late 80's, the heyday of Time-Life Music collections, then chances are that you heard the chorus of this song at least once. To use these, you will need an Afval Pas. If you live in a highrise area, you can use big containers placed outside. You will also have a green container for vegetable/fruit/garden waste and a grey container for domestic waste. In Voorschoten you have three containers at your home. You can find more information about this here. Every time you throw a bag in the underground container you will pay a fee.

For all remaining waste you can make use of underground containers in your neighbourhood. You get two containers for your home, a green container for vegetable/fruit/garden waste and a grey container for plastic, metal and drink cartons. In Zoeterwoude the municipality empties a container every week. You can find more information about this by visiting the the website of the Oegstgeest municipality. Other kinds of waste, such as glass, paper and textiles you can make use of special containers that are available in every neighbourhood. You will have a grey container for domestic waste and a brown container for vegetable/fruit/garden waste. In the municipality of Oegstgeest you can make use of two containers. You can find more information about the collection of waste on the official Leiderdorp website. If you live in an apartment building you can make use of underground containers, to access these you need an Afval Pas. There are also extra containers in each neighbourhood where you can recycle glass and paper. The grey container is meant for domestic waste. The green container is meant for vegetable/fruit/garden wasste. These containers are emptied weekly, so each one is emptied every other week. To be as environmentally friendly as possible, you will receive two different types of containers to separate your waste. In the municipality of Leiderdorp, different types of containers are used. You can find more information about these containers and when they will be emptied in each area on the Leiden municipality website. There are two kinds of containers: the green container is meant for vegetable/fruit/garden waste. Each week, you put a designated container by the road to be emptied by the municipality. Outside of the city centre, there are containers you get for your personal use. If you live in the city centre, visit the website of the Leiden municipality to find out more about the containers. There are separate containers to hand in paper, glass, plastic or bulky waste.

These underground containers are meant for domestic trash. To use these, a container card is required. In the city centre of Leiden you can get rid of your rubbish at any time in one of the underground containers. The municipality picks up trash every week.

Take out the papers and the trash