Recycling duty

In Japan, garbage is put out on different days according to the type of garbage. In our neighbourhood, soft plastic, such as bags, is put out on Mondays, burnable garbage is put out on Tuesdays and Fridays, hard plastics is every other Thursday with non-burnable garbage on the other Thursdays. Finally, recyclable items are put out every other Wednesday. There is one person in charge of setting up the recycling baskets so that all of our neighbours can come to the area and put their recyclables in the proper baskets. The other neighbours go in rotation and assist the main guy. It was our turn this Wednesday. You can see Ayako below by all the baskets for recyclables:
It was about 0 degrees C today, so we wrapped up warm since we had to stand outside for about 45 minutes and assist our neighbours to separate their garbage. There are eleven different types of recyclables and so we had to make sure that everyone separated them properly:
Near the end of our duty, some neighbourhood children gathered near us to go to school together. The children waited until they were all there and then the leader got them in a nice line and greated them with a "Good Morning!". Then they set off for school together. I was impressed how organized and calm they were and how it was done with no adult supervision.

Anyway, that was the one time this year that we had to do recycling duty, which wasn't so bad in the end, except for the time 6:45 to 7:30.