Ihe first days, they did as usual: they took out the garbage cans. And when they piled up, in Marseilles, Rouen or elsewhere, they began to try to reduce them mechanically, to keep them at home to bring them down ” later “, before questioning. And if their gesture was misinterpreted: storing your trash cans on your balcony is better for the neighborhood, but it wouldn’t be worthy of a picket line? Shouldn’t the real opponents of the reform rather throw away everything that can be thrown away, in support of the garbage collectors on strike?
The camp opposite, that of the supporters of reform, also had its trash bag strategists. There are those who have considered taking them over the weekend to relatives in the provinces or in neighborhoods where collection is privatized. They even performed three-cushion billiard shots, hanging enigmatic labels on their trash cans to clarify their message (“Hidalgo, no to blackmail! »).
How do we recognize them?
These tacticians are from all political persuasions. They asked their friends what their plan was, talking about their 50-litre bags as if they were ballots. They may find themselves doing the same thing as their class enemy when it comes to garbage, but for different reasons. They saw more garbage collectors on social media than in real life. They have lots of pictures of garbage cans in their smartphones. They looked at the size of the garbage cans in front of neighboring buildings to try to estimate the number of unoccupied apartments and the urgency of taxing multi-owners. They never knew so well what their neighbors ate. If garbage collectors are not on strike in their city, they have an idea of what they would do about it if they were.
how they talk
“This Christmas tree that has just been swung, you are not going to tell me that it was urgent to do so on March 17. It is necessarily political. » « The right thing to do is to put your garbage cans outside, but double the bag to limit the health risk. “My support for the revolution: taking out my trash cans so they have something to burn. » « On the verge of putting my garbage cans in the Twingo and going up to Paris to put them there. “Please stop picking up my trash, I feel like a class enemy.” “My self as a citizen is in conflict with my self as a neighbour. »
“Anyway, I only have two neighbors, so it was one of the two who did this. “These quantities should also raise questions about waste reduction. “Every time I come home, I think about trash cans and how to deal with them. “I don’t think I’m a scab at all because I keep my bins at home. “Being able to see what’s in neighbors’ garbage cans for so long is a bit like seeing them naked through the window. “It makes me want to tax garbage cans by volume like in Switzerland. »
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