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I've seen videos of that kind of snow clearing in Canada on FB @CanadianLori. Interesting technique.

In France and Belgium home owners and occupiers are required to keep the pblic paths in front of them clear so any grass cut, weeds cleared, hedges trimmed so as not to impinge on the pathway and snow cleared. Rubbish bins have to be put out and brought back in within a time frame of the collections and "objets encombrants"/big stuff only put out by pre-arrangement when such collections are announced.

It's all part of social and community responsibility but it clearly doesn't work in som places - Paris centre streets were a terrible mess last time I was there, tho not the main touristy boulevards.

 

Oh yes, @Obelix-Vendée , those are the same rules here however people for the most part, do obey. We have large item pick biweekly. You are allowed three items each time - a couch and two chairs, etc. We used to have one "big garbage day" each spring where people piled up loads of items all at once and the scavengers acted like it was Christmas. We cannot put metal items out though. Yes, soda cans, food tins in the recycle bins, but not auto parts or metal shelving or washers or things. Appliances are picked up as asked but most don't bother. If you put an old fridge at the end of your drive, usually within an hour, a scavenger has scooped it. And yes, bins out no earlier than the night before and empties back in same day after pick up.

I just get angry when they download the work of clearing their property and then to add insult, do a really lousy job of plowing to make the job even more difficult.