I worked for a few weeks sorting recyclables and I have some bitches about what people do that causes a lot of trouble. They’ll tie the tops of grocery bags with paper in them. Why? Do they think it will escape? Just leave it open or put another bag upside down over the first one if you’re afraid it will get wet. Pulling the second bag off is a lot easier than tearing tied bags open. The tying is helping NOTHING. Even worse,they’ll tie two or three of those bags, with either paper or other recyclables in them, together. We would see three or four bags tied together like a bunch of balloons. They all have to be torn open and that just makes it harder. The conveyor belt goes by quickly and the bags need to be torn open as fast as possible. Picking up a bunch of bags tied together and wrestling them all open one by one is a serious pain. Please stop doing that. People will put literally anything in a recycling bag, food, clothes, any damn thing. Why? The food makes the stuff stink like hell and is in no way recyclable and the rest of the assorted garbage has to be sorted out and thrown back in the garbage anyway so do the sorters a favour and put it in the regular garbage in the first place so they don’t have to sort it out. They’ll put boxboard in with the paper. Boxboard is the thin cardboard used in packaging, like cereal boxes and other food boxes. That’s not supposed to be recycled at this time. It’s supposed to go in the compost bin. Yes, it’s a waste of boxboard, but those are currently the rules and the plant is not equipped to handle that much extra material. There are only a few people on those conveyor lines and people are just bogging it down with all that boxboard that’s not supposed to be going to the plant. There are proposals to add boxboard to the recyclables but they have not been implemented yet and right now it’s just making extra work for nothing. For now, stick it in the compost bin like you’re supposed to, please and thank you. —Josh
This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2014.
Too bad. At least you have a job.
Mark “Chopper” Read has some advice for you, Josh.
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buy a knife
A few weeks? So glad you fulfilled your court imposed community service requirement and also provide a public service announcement. Bet your gonna think twice before breaking the law.
But what if I’m a climate-change denier?
I must say that I do enjoy Montrealman’s quick quips…!
Seeing as you only lasted a “few weeks”, I guess you sucked at your job or as previously noted, your stint at community service was complete.
As for tying blue bags and paper grocery bags … I can’t believe I’m even commenting on this … but bags should be tied all the time. Imagine the mess down your street when the wind picks up on recycling/garbage day and all the lovely contents of those grocery and blue bags now litter the entire area because you do not have the forethought to carry a knife.
Snarkiness aside, it’s always a good thing to remind us all of zen and the art of recyclable, compost, garbage and boxboard/corrugated sorting. It’s a small step towards preserving this earth.
As a side bitch, the company that deliver flyers in my area now do it first thing in the morning on recycling day. I take the little pink bag off my porch and toss it to the curb for convenient recycling. For the record, I have repeatedly asked not to have flyers delivered, placed signs in my window which go unheeded; I’ve even “pounced” on the delivery persons asking not to deliver to my address … all to no avail. The little pink bags of recycling continue to appear. What madness is this in the interwebz age to be delivering tons of paper door to door? I cannot even fathom the rationale. There’s my bitch du jour.
Pretty shitty way to pay off a fine.
I love this place. Whats that you say, you’ve got a dirty job. Must be court ordered then. No wonder Harper loves his foreign workers………
sweden is up to 99% on recycling its garbage, and…..they are going to start importing 800,000 tons more from the rest of europe because they also burn it as an energy source for home heating.
if we had to live with our own garbage, like keep it in the living room, we’d manage pretty damn fast.
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: Mr. Meaty (09/02, 9:41AM)
I was thinking of giving you a “like” but that would bring you even with me. So I didn’t.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Hallioops:
There’s a phone number you have to call to have the service cancelled.
From Councillor Hendsbee:
LITTER CONCERNS OVER FLYERS
With Spring now upon us, plenty of flyers have emerged from underneath Winter’s snow. This soggy wet paper should be picked up and placed into your organics green-bin, of course, less its plastic sleeve. Inside those community newspapers, there’s contact information provided enabling customers to stop flyer delivery. The print media industry maintain a database and any customers wishing to cease delivery of flyers to have their homes are flagged and instructions sent to the carrier to stop. If you would like to stop delivery of the Chronicle’s Community Herald flyer package, please call 426-2811 (Ext. 3350) with your civic address and telephone number. Or by e-mail to : emc@herald.ca or by fax at 426-0422. For the Transcontinental’s Weekly News contact Distribution Manager at 421-5802 or by e-mail: tbeer@hfxnews.ca .
@Cumonalready! — Thanks for the updated information. I have called the Herald and that didn’t work the last time. I’ll give it the ole college try one more time.
Just wanted to put it out there that burning or incerating your waste falls short of actual recycling. If I put all my garbage in a wood stove and burn it for energy would my neighbours call this recycling?
I also hate flyers, too. But how can I price match everything without them?
All the bags are tied together to keep them from wandering down the street like plastic tumbleweeds.
sorry o.p., most people do not have that little thing called common sense.