Taiwan's musical garbage trucks offer entertainment and connection to residents


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A resident throwing a bag of trash into a garbage truck in Taipei. For decades, the tinkling of Beethoven's Fur Elise or Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska's Maiden's Prayer has alerted Taiwanese households to take out their garbage. — Photos: I-HWA CENG/AFP

Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music over a loudspeaker pulls up.

For decades, the tinkling of Beethoven's Fur Elise or Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska's Maiden's Prayer has alerted Taiwanese households to take out their garbage.

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