Nicole Thieme’s 5-year-old son loves trash trucks and everything to do with them, including the family’s big blue trash bin. Nicole, a Moorpark resident, physiologist and self-proclaimed germaphobe, didn’t want to squash his curiosity about waste collection services but also didn’t want him near their bacteria-laden bins. She and her husband, both Conejo Valley natives, started looking into the best ways to keep their cans clean—and learned some pretty grimy facts in the process. Armed with the knowledge that rinsing the bins out with a hose does little but waste water and washing with chemicals only harms animals and...

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