Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

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?