Recycling in Canada?
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Now I have a little shed-like thing (only the one, not two like Oink).
This mostly defeats the bastards.
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Garbage collection here is once every two weeks.
One truck comes for:
Green wheelie bin containing compostables.
One black bag with real, non-recyclable garbage.
Up to three clear bags for additional, non-recyclable garbage.
Another truck comes for:
Blue bags containing paper/cardboard.
Blue bags containing plastic items and some other things (e.g. aluminium items such as foil, cans etc).
If you put the wrong things in a bag or use an incorrectly coloured bag (e.g. because you ran out of the correct colour), they slap a sticker on the bag telling you so and don't bother collecting it. Which can be annoying.
There are also a couple of recycle places downtown where empties, old electronics, quantities of metal etc can be taken in exchange for cash.
One truck comes for:
Green wheelie bin containing compostables.
One black bag with real, non-recyclable garbage.
Up to three clear bags for additional, non-recyclable garbage.
Another truck comes for:
Blue bags containing paper/cardboard.
Blue bags containing plastic items and some other things (e.g. aluminium items such as foil, cans etc).
If you put the wrong things in a bag or use an incorrectly coloured bag (e.g. because you ran out of the correct colour), they slap a sticker on the bag telling you so and don't bother collecting it. Which can be annoying.
There are also a couple of recycle places downtown where empties, old electronics, quantities of metal etc can be taken in exchange for cash.
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Ours in Oakville is pretty similar to Novocastrian's. Green bin for kitchen waste (including meat scraps, bones, etc as well as any more 'traditional' compostables that don't go in the garden composter), blue boxes for hard recyclables - paper, card, plastics, cans, non-returnable bottles, etc. Both collected once a week. FOrtnightly collection of black bags for actual garbage, and brown paper sacks of yard waste. Bulky items collected from kerbside once every six weeks or so, if they haven't been scavenged overnight first. It's pretty efficient: our family of 5 produces 3 or 4 black bags of garbage every fortnight, of which 1 or 2 are diapers (like AX, we're not green enough to bother with reusable ones).
Halton region has a well managed waste processing and reclamation facility (i.e. recycling, municipal composting, and landfill). There was a piece in the local paper the other day about its ever-extending lifespan: originally commissioned in 1992 with a life expectancy of 20 years, more and more landfill diversion of green waste and recyclables extended its lifespan first to 2023 and now to 2040, despite the region's population almost doubling in that time span. And they run an "open week" when we can go and shovel up as much compost/organic mulch as we need every spring, for the price of a donation to the local food bank.
Halton region has a well managed waste processing and reclamation facility (i.e. recycling, municipal composting, and landfill). There was a piece in the local paper the other day about its ever-extending lifespan: originally commissioned in 1992 with a life expectancy of 20 years, more and more landfill diversion of green waste and recyclables extended its lifespan first to 2023 and now to 2040, despite the region's population almost doubling in that time span. And they run an "open week" when we can go and shovel up as much compost/organic mulch as we need every spring, for the price of a donation to the local food bank.
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We don't have bears here, but we do have raccoons, who are incredibly ingenious. I used to have the green food waste bin, with it's "tamper proof" latch, on the back porch. Very regularly indeed the local raccoons would break in and redistribute the contents.
Now I have a little shed-like thing (only the one, not two like Oink).
This mostly defeats the bastards.
Now I have a little shed-like thing (only the one, not two like Oink).
This mostly defeats the bastards.
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Melancthon, a little part of Ontario, has a red neck population; the dump has signs warning that out-of-hours it's a hunting area so enter at your own risk. There's no garbage pick up. Still it's astonishingly efficient, the dump is supervised; clear glass, coloured glass, cardboard, appliances, tyres, metals, compost (usable) compost (unusable) all have their places. I didn't pay much attention to the compost piles because, at the time, I had chickens and so nothing left to contribute.
To my great chagrin, I can sing songs about waste recycling, as the kids were so steeped in the necessity of it...trust me I promise not to give voice, if you pay me well!
I want chickens here (just three, and I have to buy a licence!)...I brought my own purple Eglu Cube by Omlet, so I shall get rid of my edible waste that way...maybe I shall only have to drink wine that comes in plastic bottles or make my own!
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Hamilton has 2 blue boxes, one for paper and cardboard and one for plastics, glass and other recyclable items; a green bin for biodegradable items and we are permitted 1 black bin bag or 1 garbage bin for general garbage per week. Once every 2 months we are permitted to put out 3 black bin bags (on a specific week), at Christmas we are also permitted extra. Garden waste - clippings, leaves etc., go into brown paper bags for collection. Large items can be left at the curbside between May and September for collection by prior arrangement. Christmas tree's can be put out after Christmas for collection.
If you put anything in a blue box that doesn't belong then they leave the box in situ complete with contents with a sticker attached.
One thing I really don't understand - why isn't wrapping paper (i.e. Christmas/Birthday wrapping paper) allowed to be recycled? We have to put it in the garbage!
If you put anything in a blue box that doesn't belong then they leave the box in situ complete with contents with a sticker attached.
One thing I really don't understand - why isn't wrapping paper (i.e. Christmas/Birthday wrapping paper) allowed to be recycled? We have to put it in the garbage!
#24
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hmmm, no garbage collection here.
everything gets thrown into the back of the truck and dumped in various sections of the local tip - ie metal in one bits, plastic in another, empty oil and paint cans in another bit etc etc. The rest (ie household stuff) get chucked in a big hole in the ground which includes glass.
I'm too lazy to get on the bandwagon of recyling everything that I touch, the kitchen wouldn't be big enough for the amount of boxes you'd need and I certainly can't be arsed to be washing out jam jars and yoghurt pots when I can just throw them in the bin.
everything gets thrown into the back of the truck and dumped in various sections of the local tip - ie metal in one bits, plastic in another, empty oil and paint cans in another bit etc etc. The rest (ie household stuff) get chucked in a big hole in the ground which includes glass.
I'm too lazy to get on the bandwagon of recyling everything that I touch, the kitchen wouldn't be big enough for the amount of boxes you'd need and I certainly can't be arsed to be washing out jam jars and yoghurt pots when I can just throw them in the bin.
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Frankly, that's justa piss poor attitude.
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Are there bits of Canada that are hot on recycling? NB doesn't appear to be...I couldn't work out why the neighbours have bin after bin of rubbish, it's because they are shoving everything in it. I rang City Hall this morning to find out where to take my glass and was told to stick it in my garbage. This can't be the same all over Canada surely? It just seems odd that you are asked not to wear perfume in public in case someone is allergic and have a by-law to cover everything from the length of your dogs leash, to appropriate places to fly a kite...but are asked to put glass in the rubbish. It's bloody good that Canada is big if this is all going into land fill.
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Are there bits of Canada that are hot on recycling? NB doesn't appear to be...I couldn't work out why the neighbours have bin after bin of rubbish, it's because they are shoving everything in it. I rang City Hall this morning to find out where to take my glass and was told to stick it in my garbage. This can't be the same all over Canada surely? It just seems odd that you are asked not to wear perfume in public in case someone is allergic and have a by-law to cover everything from the length of your dogs leash, to appropriate places to fly a kite...but are asked to put glass in the rubbish. It's bloody good that Canada is big if this is all going into land fill.