The picture was taken this year in February.
For the Ruhr area, located in Germany, it was a winter with good minus temperatures and plenty of snow for some time.
Unfortunately, the winter service in my residential area was not able to master the snow masses and simply left the snow for weeks and the thawed then also dutifully after 3 weeks again.
The two garbage cans that are on the right in the picture are recyclables garbage cans and just as you see them standing there, they were still standing after 3 weeks and were not emptied.
Why? Because the same company that is responsible for emptying the garbage cans is also responsible for street cleaning and thus snow removal. And if you can not manage the one already...