We don't have a defined day for that. People in town have blue containers filled with cardboard, bottles and other recyclables that they put out every week. If you put a sofa in front of your house the "code enforcers" (probably equivalent to your Ordnungsamt) would drop by to fine them for "an offense."

I live out, but not way out. When you live this far north on Turtle Island, towns are small and the countryside is big. Down the road a kilometer or so from me this guy set up a "garage sale." In town, you are supposed to apply for a permit to have a garage sale and then you can only have a couple a year. Out here you don't need a permit, so they have no way of knowing how many you've had. I'm sure what he did was illegal, though. David set up his garage sale in an old barn. He was open only on Fridays and Saturdays, but it was every single week. He'd spend the week going to other garage sales and taking away everything that didn't sell, usually for free and local people were always dropping by his garage sale with truckloads of reusable stuff. He always opened the first weekend in April and closed right after Halloween (0ct. 31). It was the only garage sale that I've been to that had more stuff at the end of the sale than it had at the beginning. If I needed something I didn't have, I'd go to the Garage Sale first because he probably had it for pennies on the dollar. That's where I got my cast iron wok and my steam juice extractor...for $5 each! David would recycle stuff that just didn't sell or give it to the thrift stores in town. He didn't make a lot of money (lots of stuff sold for dimes and quarters) but he had bad knees and a bad hip (from working hard labor his whole life) and was on disability (which isn't enough to live on), so the income helped him out and he was doing good work. I went every week, partly because I'm a bit of a bargain addict and partly because I wanted to support his efforts. Sadly, the owner of the property needed his barn to store his own junk (he is a hoarder for sure) so David had to close this year. I miss him. He had absolutely everything. Cash and carry and no tax. A real people's store.