About a year ago waste disrupted the way I normally functioned.  This was due to a hurricane flooding my neighborhood and my house.  Because of the flooding and the lack of road service available, there was a lot of trash and waste in front of my house for a while.  Some of it was yard waste as the tree in front of our house had a lot of branches and sticks that fell but we also had to cut down that tree due to fears of instability for the next storm.  There was also a lot of our furniture and things that were on the floor that could not be salvaged. We had to throw away a lot as the water that seeped into our house was dangerous and contained gasoline and other contaminants.  We also had to remove the bottom half of the drywall on all of our walls which also produced a significant amount of trash.  There was simply no service to pick up all of the waste that we had in front of our house and in front of all of our neighbors houses. Our whole neighborhood was affected by the storm as we lived in a low  elevation area.  In an emergency Public Services don’t always work like they should, which is understandable because it’s an emergency and they needed to be more focused on other things, But it was very stressful and messy. It took about a month or two for all of the trash to be removed from in front of our house which just made me worry a bit about pollution and runoff from the items sitting out there for over a month.  it was not very sanitary but most trash isn’t.