@Cat_LeFey in a similar situation in Maine, although I do have a mailbox a quarter mile from the house and you can get to the hospital in half an hour after the EMTs arrive from 20 minutes to whenever. We do however compost, reuse, and pay a yearly fee to use a landfill that’s about 20 minutes away where the main attraction is the “stuff for free someone else didn’t want anymore” she’d.
People have NO idea.