Garbage

I got a warning letter in the mail. Prompted me to actually read the recycling instructions. Turns out a whole bunch of stuff I'd been putting in recycling is not actually recyclable.
 
The Etobicoke collectors don't seem to be sorting through the blue bins. They just drive up and dump the whole bin in the truck. No sifting through the blue bin as far as I can tell. Could be that specific contractors like GFL don't care.
 
I'm so glad GFL now collects my trash.

Not that I think it right that people throw garbage in recycling (they do because they need to get rid of shit and the City only collects garbage once every 2 weeks. The city used to collect garbage and recycling ever week. One truck would pass for recycling, then another for garbage. If the city still did it this way, they'd have a lot less cross contamination.)

But I used to have a lot of problems with the City of Toronto garbage collectors not taking my garbage. Any reason under the sun not to do their job.
 
Were I live,if you put something in the recycle box that you shouldn't, they don't take it and stick a label on the box telling you what shouldn't be in their.
 
james t kirk said:
I'm so glad GFL now collects my trash.

Not that I think it right that people throw garbage in recycling (they do because they need to get rid of shit and the City only collects garbage once every 2 weeks. The city used to collect garbage and recycling ever week. One truck would pass for recycling, then another for garbage. If the city still did it this way, they'd have a lot less cross contamination.)

But I used to have a lot of problems with the City of Toronto garbage collectors not taking my garbage. Any reason under the sun not to do their job.
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Either GFL is more effective at sorting junk out of the blue bin or just doesn't care.
 
How about the TTC. I saw last week where they dumped both the blue and clear garbage bags into the same truck and fired up the compressor smashing it all together. What's the point of having seperate cans if they dump it all together.
 
timekeep said:
How about the TTC. I saw last week where they dumped both the blue and clear garbage bags into the same truck and fired up the compressor smashing it all together. What's the point of having seperate cans if they dump it all together.
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This happens a lot more than you think. Corporations and governments do this.
 
timekeep said:
How about the TTC. I saw last week where they dumped both the blue and clear garbage bags into the same truck and fired up the compressor smashing it all together. What's the point of having seperate cans if they dump it all together.
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Yep.

It's called green washing. The gov't comes up with all these initiatives, but the reality is that it's all just bullshit.

A big part of the problem is cross contamination as well. Go into the food court at Sherway and they have 5 different (too small) holes for you to sort your trash. No-one does it properly and everything just gets dumped everywhere.

Be happy that people are at least trying to throw their garbage out in a bin as opposed to the Don and Betty Draper technique of respecting nature.

 
I'm east of Yonge, so the City still collects my trash. I've never had a problem, and have frequently been impressed by loaders who chase after blowing bits from overfilled containers, or pull out by hand what didn't slide out during the tip'n'shake. They are clearly motivated to work fast and hard under very difficult conditions in the downtown area, and I've yet to see anything they've done along my street or my running route that I'd complain about.

I'm particularly pleased that a 311 phone-call got me 'excused' from having to use those stupidly monstrous new green bins. Supposedly I'm now on a permitted-list somewhere, but all I care is that I can now have my single weekly bag of organics collected sensibly without having to trundle a mostly empty 90 litre bin back and forth.
 
The city will soon be enforcing very strictly waste diversion with fines and refusal to collect notices particularly with high rise buildings where compliance is only 20% as opposed to 80% in single family homes. The biggest problem is textiles going in the recycling which costs the city millions to separate. They are hiring more inspectors and spending thousands on PR. to promote these new measures. We cant keep throwing everything into landfills its too expensive and a waste of good land. Waste diversion will become a source of revenue for the city and the province in the not too distant future so they are going to be hitting people pretty hard if the dont comply.
 
Freedom1970 said:
Once again another avenue for BIG GOVERNMENT to extort money from the already over taxed taxpayer!!
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How are they extorting anything??? in this case, all they are trying to get you to do is separate YOUR waste to make more cost efficient to process it.
 
Brill said:
So the landlord gets fined if his tenants don't sort properly?

:dance:
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Yes and if the tenants dont comply the he can levey a service charge to them until they do. This is a serious matter, we produce massive amounts of waste every day,
and if we dont start taking serious steps to change public attitude about this our beautiful city and country is going to be in trouble.
 
Mr Deeds said:
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How are they extorting anything??? in this case, all they are trying to get you to do is separate YOUR waste to make more cost efficient to process it.
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Just another angry man shaking his fist at the government again. It's a very tired act. Either we sort it ourselves or pay people to do it.
 
james t kirk said:
Yep.

It's called green washing. The gov't comes up with all these initiatives, but the reality is that it's all just bullshit.

A big part of the problem is cross contamination as well. Go into the food court at Sherway and they have 5 different (too small) holes for you to sort your trash. No-one does it properly and everything just gets dumped everywhere.

Be happy that people are at least trying to throw their garbage out in a bin as opposed to the Don and Betty Draper technique of respecting nature.
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Sherway went overboard with those bins. I think they have 5 or 6? You spend more time trying to figure out where each type of waste goes. Three bins are more than enough and we're already used to them. One bin for liquids, food and soiled paper, one for recyclables and one for everything else.
 
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