About Trash Knight

It all started with a helping hand and a conversation.

About seven years ago, while I was out for a walk one morning, I noticed an elderly woman struggling to bring her trash cans to the curb down a dangerously steep driveway. She was visibly straining, and it was clear that she was putting herself at risk. One slip could have resulted in a serious fall.

Without hesitation, I went over and offered to take her heavy trash cans to the curb for her. She gratefully accepted my help, and I walked away thinking about how something as simple as taking the trash to the curb can become a genuine challenge for someone who needs a little assistance.

Fast forward about five years, and I was having a conversation with my mother, who had recently turned 65. She was telling me about some of the things she no longer enjoys doing. Living in a cold-weather climate topped her list, followed by grocery shopping and, of course, taking out the trash.

That conversation brought me back to the woman I had helped years earlier.

It made me realize that there are plenty of people who don't necessarily need someone to take care of their trash, but would certainly appreciate not having to do it themselves. For others, moving heavy trash and recycling cans can be difficult, uncomfortable, or even unsafe.

That simple helping hand, combined with my mother's reminder that taking out the trash is one of those necessary chores many people would gladly do without, inspired the creation of Trash Knight Can-to-Curb Service.

What started with helping one person has grown into a service designed to make life a little easier—one set of cans at a time.