Here’s what we want as Halifax citizens; our garbage picked up at the curb, ALL OF IT, the electronics, the paperboard, all of it. Why do we have to get a truck and take the electronics to the recycling center? I don’t have a truck, HRM has lots of trucks. Why are they not using a few of them to take our garbage electronics to the recyclers FOR US, considering that we are paying taxes to HRM to get rid of our garbage? What, can’t afford a truck for that but they can afford a big skating rink? I’m a little more concerned about the mountain of old electronics piling up in my apartment because I can’t get the city to actually take it? And why are we composting paperboard instead of recycling it? Funny how the Trade Center has a company who takes the paperboard for recycling but HRM doesn’t. I suggest that HRM contract the same company as Trade Center does, and then TAKE THE PAPERBOARD IN THE BLUE BAGS INSTEAD OF LEAVING THE WHOLE BAG THERE IF THERE’S ONE PIECE OF PAPERBOARD IN IT. Just take it and sort it out at the plant. We know HRM garbage workers tear open every bag and pick through it, meaning that nobody in HRM has any privacy at all, so if they are sorting it there when we put it in a black bag, why can’t they sort it there when we put it in a blue bag? YOU SORT IT, THAT”S WHAT WE PAY YOU FOR.
Now, the other thing we want is a reliable public transit system. What does HRM do? Predictably, they can’t keep that working properly either. Before the recent contract negotiation, meaning dictates from HRM, people could get to the vastly overpriced housing area known as Halifax from the slums they are forced to live in, in god forsaken badlands like Dartmouth. Now they are stranded there at the mercy of the out of control teenagers of welfare mothers. Thanks, HRM council, for yet another example of why you are a bunch of useless wastes of money. Maybe somebody in City Hall who gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to constantly aggravate and enrage the public (you know who) can pick us all up in his Explorer and drive us to work, after he screwed up the public transit system. Maybe this unidentified person could also buy some stick-on eyebrows, because he looks like a vampire or something without any. Wonder what that disease is called. Disappearing eyebrowitis, I guess. —JJ
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.
I actually think city council did a VERY good job in the negotiations. You play it give them little at first and by the last minute you give in and give them basically everything they want except one key point because in negotiations you always find a compromise. The problem is the union keeps changing their demands (money) as well as will not compromise on a very reasonable issue (scheduling).
Its amazing what will fit in a trashburner wood stove.
My last key board broke & I want to put it out in the trash…my honey told me we can’t do it. I’m looking forward to the BTU’s it will generate when I burn it.
Then I’ll put the little bits of metal left over in the trash !!!VOILA PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
Sorry OP, I think the city is doing the best they can. I for one am enjoying the quiet outside of my building 🙂
I hadn’t heard that the Trade Centre recycled their paperboard instead of composting. Perhaps you could contact them and see why and compare their reasoning with the HRM? Maybe you’ll educate one of them.
My understanding is that paperboard (I’m thinking cereal boxes, kleenex boxes, pasta boxes, all with plastic bits removed), is at the end of its recycling life and so it goes into the compost to break down.
You could put your compost into a paperboard box like that and then just toss it into the compost bin for your home or apartment building.
I am in agreement that some sort of pick up for electronics would be great – once a month, twice a month at a community location, a dropbox that we can dump stuff into and then the HRM can pick up, anything. Otherwise people will likely just throw it in the trash and that doesn’t help anyone.
and what about the little wooden crates that those yummy clementines come in. What do I do with them? I put them at the curb on top of the green bin (in case they shouldn’t be in there, and I AM NOT fishing them out so they will take the compost next week), they got left behind. I drag them out back until next week and put them out with the garbage and recyclables and they also get left behind.
WHAT THE HELL??
Where are they now? at the curb, getting the shit kicked and smashed out of them by jerkwad kids. I’m leaving them there.
I live in an apartment building… I just put things in the garbage room and it sorts itself out 🙂
Frenchie, wood has to be broken down and bundled (3ft lengths & no more than 40lbs, I think).
burn em, burn em all…frenchie
Move to an apartment complex or condo…. chuck your shit in the dumpster. Nobody knows who’s old dinosaur computer that is or the mattress left beside the dumpster. They just take it or else. Luv it.
it;s bad that you actually pay an electronics tax… and they don’t pick it up.
it’s a tax specifically FOR electronics imposed at purchase by being included in the price of the item…
but I’m not sure what it’s being used for…
how hard can it be to separate metal from sand? (the basics of chipboards)
that’s how I got a fully functioning windows 98 running computer…
with everything in tact… right down to the cookies left on there telling me their accounts, details, even what books they viewed on amazon.
If you do… for fuck sakes people, zero the thing out.
What a dumb bitch!
uh, ya.
all I can figure is that it was some old lady who didn’t want the ancient thing cluttering up her apartment. all the cookbooks n knitting books kinda led me to that conclusion.
I like that the paperboard boxes go in the compost because I can use them to put other, more squishy compost items in. If it wasn’t for those, I would just have the odd paper bag.
Clementine boxes, I just put in a garbage bag. I know they’re supposed to be broken down and bundled but whatevs. Whatever gets them out of my apartment the fastest.
I agree there should be a monthly electronics and batteries pickup, or at least a drop off location that’s more convenient than Bayers Lake. Especially for batteries.
bottle depots usually have electronics drop offs too…
Jesus OP, how electronics do you have to need a truck to take to the depot? The ACES stewardship is a non-profit initiative so I imagine that has something to do with the lack of pick up.
Listening to some of you guys makes me laugh. Recycling ain’t rocket science, it just requires a little effort.
and you are now just fucking finding this out o.p., jebus fuck. how long have you lived here in this fuckhole of a cowtown? and if computer stuff, i could always take it off your hands. i recycle to others just starting out.