Every day, the department says, 10,000 tons of residential garbage is put out for collection.

"I moved about 20 tons of garbage a day, and that was two cans at a time."

Up to 200,000 tons of garbage per month would be delivered.

But what to do with the city's 13,000 tons of residential garbage a day?

Probably buried under a few tons of garbage by now.

We Americans produce 160 million tons of garbage every year.

In 1981, when the trucks went into service, the department collected 3,183,000 tons of garbage.

"At the moment, we are talking about 80,000 tons of garbage a year in the seven towns," he said.

"Do you know that society throws away 10 million tons of garbage each year?"

Contracts for an additional 2,000 tons of garbage should be signed next year.