I used to think it was pretty neat that you guys would go around the night before recycling day and collect all of the pop cans that people included in their recycling. Now I want to get my hands on one of those explosive dye packs that banks put in with stolen money and throw it in my recycling so it can blow up in your stupid face. You think it’s ok to take one or two pop cans out of my recycling AND my blue bag, and then leave the rest of the shit on the curb? Do you think that waste management is going to pick up the now individual recyclables? Rhetorical question; No douche-bag, they are not going to fucking pick up that shit so now it is going to get blown around the neighborhood and ran over and stepped on and made no longer recyclable.
If I ever see any of you twats pushing your cart up the road (which is meant for cars by the way, not your gypsie/nomad shopping carts) I am going to slash open all of the bags so your cans go spilling everywhere and now you can deal with that shit.
—Dave Suzuki Would be Pissed
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
I used to live on Cunard st , that would happen to me all the time. it drove me crazy , I even got into it one day with a guy when I caught him ripping my blue bags open and making a mess. Bastards…
we put them in a seperate bag for just that reason. this way they take the whole bag and leave the rest alone.
those slimey bastards…
They probably leave your shit on the ground so you will do what JMO does and make their lives easier for them.
those fucktards used to actually come up onto my deck and take bottles from there! Breaking the law much?! I’d look out to my window to find a dirty, old, nasty man on my deck, going through my bags. I have moved since then.
Every time I see them going through peoples yards, I feel like throwing the bottles at them or breaking them over their heads.
Asswipes.
I love how Halifax thinks that it has such a great environmental policy. Compared to where? Why is it that you can throw your paper coffee cups in green bins in Lunenburg County, but not here? There is a simple solution that I’m almost certain will stop the problem of scavengers taking things from blue bags. Make it illegal to take a shopping cart off the property of the supermarket or store that owns it. Enforce this law – few of the scavengers would/could carry blue bags as they would be too heavy. Better yet, give the FULL deposit that you pay on recyclable products back when you turn them in to a depot. Oh wait – that’s a moneymaker for the government, so that idea is dead in the water…
nah, that won’t work. I see an old woman, pushing a baby stroller full of bags of bottles and cans. They’ll always find something to put the shit in. They’re unusually inventive the lil’ buggers.
let’s just kneecap them
poor canhandlers 🙁
I wouldn’t have such an issue with these fucks if they put the other shit back in the recycling containers instead of leaving them all over the place. Then again, I like to take my own bottles in for mah refund so it doesn’t matter either way (and I live in a large apartment building so we gotz a locked room for our garbage) . Canhandlers are no better than panhandlers, honestly. People say “at least they do something for their money!”….well so do crack dealers and no one would praise them for their choice of employment.
They’re either very stupid or very ignorant. I live in the downtown area with lots of students who usually put their empties out front to be picked up by canhandlers.
For some reason, the canhandlers think, “Okay, they put stuff out front so there’s probably more in the garbage!” Yeah, cat litter and paper and junk sounds and feels like empty cans and bottles.
Not all are terrible though. Some appreciate what people do for them (when stuff is left out for them). Most are just idiots though.
I applaud them more than panhandlers and “coffee”-addicts.
Hey, if you’re going to go through the trouble of sabotaging your recyclables why not separate the refundables into a bag of their own or just leave them out? You KNOW someone is interested in the silver change you’re tossing into the recycle bin so why not count on it in this way instead?
In an appealed court case this week there was a law passed that said that once your garbage is in the street it is public domain (so cops can legally rifle through garbage for evidence).
Perhaps the streeters (or cops) who rip apart garbage bags and leave a mess behind should be charged for littering?
My roomates and I used to have a problem with can collecters coming into our backyard that is fenced in with this big wooden fence. They would come and steal about 4 or 5 bags full of empties at a time (we have a lot of parties). We always returned the empties ourselves for the refund. Then one days one of my roomates saw one of the collecters and chased him down the street and told him not to steal our empties anymore. I wouldn’t have minded if they took them from the sidewalk, but these bags were clearly not on the sidewalk. They had to open a gate to get at them.
Hey Michael, can you post a link to that story? I want to show it to the guy who made the news last week because he picked up the garbage in a vacant lot next to his home and left it on the curb for pickup a full 2 weeks early so the cops charged him saying the moment he touched the garbage it was his. Now you’re saying once it’s on the curb it’s public property. I’m sure that guy would like to know he was charged for leaving garbage curbside that wasn’t and will never be his… oh, and the rest of us who look around after the garbage truck has come and gone and still see garbage there… that’s public property too now, isn’t it?… If such an appeal exists, that is…?