Taiwan's Garbage Trucks Offer Classical Music And A Catch-up

Taiwan's musical garbage trucks have been an almost daily feature of life on the island since the 1960s (Credit: 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.