My teen girl has visit Hong Kong for Christmas. After back to Vancouver, one day at our home kitchen when seeing me separating my garbage, she asked me:

"Do you know why Amy did not recycle their cans?"
Amy is her old classmate in Hong Kong. This time, during our stay in HK, her mom nicely invited us and some of the kids' old classmates to their home for a party. It is a very sweet reunion for them and my daughter took this chance becoming a direct resource of Canadian high school information for these international students. They had a wonderful time at their elementary school years before.
So back to the question, I asked her why. She continued,

“Because the garbage recycle bin is very far away from their house.”

Oh, that simple, I said to myself instead of her, and then to her:

“But I saw Uncle Chan was picking up the cans from the garbage back to a separate bag.”

“Oh, really?”

Yes, she did not noticed it. To be honest, I better tell her what I saw.

Amy’s parents are our best friends. They both are extremely busy during the day. They moved to a village house recently, which is running a different garbage facility system from where they used to be living – a private high rise building. There is a lady cleaner coming everyday to pick up garbage for every floor in those buildings.

Still, I am very happy that it is a recycle question rather than any other came out from my daughter after visiting such a dynamic city. Her concerns moved to global warming, homeless, and related issues from fashions after back to Canada.