The story is being told in the ad by a seriously filthy plastic pop bottle. The bottle dreamed of seeing the ocean, and they said no, but after various forces, includng a dog, nudge it along, some passerby picks up the thing, and dumps it in a recycle bin. At the end of the story, the bottle has new llife as a park bench overlooking the coastline.
Nice ad, overall, for recycling, but at the end, it exhorts us to give our garbage a new life through recycling.
Before landfills became common 40 years ago, people had garbage cans - 2 to 3 gallon receptacles with a foor actuated lid - where one deposited egg shells, coffee grounds, peelings and other bio-waste. Additionally, there were trash bins, which were used for burnable trash like paper, and for metals.
Am I ther only one left who thinks of garbage as smelly stuff that can spread disease, neither of which should be true of trash?
Who'da thunk? It seems there are some conventions regarding those terms. See: http://speakspeak.com/confusing-words/rubbish-trash-garbage