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"Christmas week may be a holiday for some, but it's typically the busiest week of the year for garbage collectors.There's a story on every curb in the days after Christmas.VIDEO: Christmas week a busy one for trash collectors\"It's pretty bad, but you can tell who had a good Christmas and who didn't,\" said Todd Vis of West Allis Public Works.Vis is working through the Thursday route -- a day late because of Christmas. On the other side of the truck is his partner, who is also his brother.\"It's nice because we know what each other wants to do so we can just keep the truck moving,\" Ed Vis said.\"We don't even have to talk about it. We know who's got what, who didn't, where to stop the truck, how far you can go,\" Todd Vis said.They've been working together 10 years. Christmas week they move 40,000 pounds of garbage a day, which is nearly double a normal shift.\"Usually it's just what's inside the carts, but now it's the extra wrapping bags and so forth on the ground, picking that up,\" Todd Vis said.The garbage is dumped at a transfer station where it's then loaded onto a trailer and taken to the landfill.Beyond more garbage this time of the year, the brothers are also dealing with the snow.\"To drag these garbage cans when they're frozen on the ground is tough, this job is already physically demanding already. It'll beat you down,\" Ed Vis said.\"Working nights until midnight (and) then back in at 7 a.m. to hump trash, so its been tough,\" Todd Vis said.Right now, the crews are doing a day and half's worth of work to prevent falling behind on pickups."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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