As long as I had somebody on the phone who could explain, I asked, ''What is the difference between trash and garbage?''

''Garbage,'' the woman said, ''are things that come from the bathroom or kitchen.''

''You mean like bread you leave out for months and green things start growing on it?'' I asked.

''Precisely,'' she said.

''Trash,'' she continued, ''is basically anything else. We do not pick up leaves, for instance, or old furniture or boxes of materials that were collected when somebody cleaned out their attic.''
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