Garbage piles along the corridor

A few months ago our caretaker started to collect trash outside her flat. I only know about this because she happens to live on the same floor where I do, and on the same side to that. The idea itself, namely that she gathers paper, glass and plastic selectively, is great, and I support it whole-heartedly. The way she does it, which is building up several five foot high towers on the side of a closed corridor where two people can't go next to each other, as it is so narrow, I don't appreciate at all.

But I can understand that it was made a bit difficult to do it otherwise, unless you collect less before you take it to the selective waste bins. There were such containers placed on the first floor, in the same room where the garbage chute was once available. But later this room was locked, and after a while the same happened on each floor. So now we have to take our garbage down to the ground floor.

Why? Because these rooms were rented out for money. To whom? The same people who own the flats in this block. And who, by the way, also pay a huge sum for common expenses each month. I also find it quite surprising, that once the building was constructed with a common garbage chute that goes through all the floors, for rather understandable reasons, the committee which is supposed to represent the interests of the owners simply decides to close down the rooms where it is placed, unless you rent it for even more money.

As an added extra to the whole story, a year ago or so, the big containers for selective waste disposal were also removed from outside the building. Now you have to go further down a few blocks to find them. And if it's your lucky day, there's still place in them for your packages.  What are we actually paying for then, it's kind of hard to imagine, for me, at least. But if the caretaker solves this issue by nearly blocking the only way out from my place to the stairway, then it surely must be okay.