They will still have to pick up the trash, police the streets and extinguish house fires.

FORBES: Is Your City Going Broke?

In K-Kids, we walk around our school and pick up the trash.

WHITEHOUSE: Anyone Can Do It

With their trash collection reduced to every other week, Portland households have had to hone their recycling skills or pay more for bigger garbage cans, which are provided by the network of private haulers who pick up the trash for the city of 583, 000.

WSJ: Portland Creates Buzz by Cutting Garbage Pickups

But cleanup missions to pick up all the trash cast off by a launch are prohibitively expensive.

WSJ: A Cosmic Question: How to Get Rid Of All That Orbiting Space Junk?

To a workshop to deliver the crates, and to pick up a pile of trash and old tires.

WSJ: As Bikes of Burden Rise, One Company Peddles Slowly to the Revolution

There were serf-like doormen, invisible porters who hauled out the trash, a squad of Polish maids who came Wednesday and Friday mornings to pick up after Kendall and scrub the toilet in the Moorish bathroom and tidy up the sunny kitchen where he ate his lunch.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment