To the bottle collectors of DT Halifax: when you tear open bags of recycling to find the refundables and leave the rest of the items strewn on the pavement outside of our houses you are not helping anyone. Because of this we are forced to use more plastic bags to re-bag the recyclables and have junk everywhere. We don’t thank you! Please stop this. —Recycler
This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2010.
Maybe separating the refundables into their own separate bag might solve your problem. That’s what we do and our blue bag remains consistently intact.
Strangely enough crackheads really don’t care overly much about the environment, which is surprising since they spend so much time out in it – sleeping/defecating in upscale doorways on B-St. for example. Try leaving used syringes, razor blades or rancid bacon grease in amongst your recyclables to help Mother Gaia heal herself.
well then o.p., don’t go hiding your stuff in green or black bags.these dudes don’t have x-ray vision you know. be nice to a bum today, it could be you tomomrrow.
Damn crackheads. How about NOT putting refundables out for these losers to steal?
“when you tear open bags of recycling to find the refundables and leave the rest of the items strewn on the pavement outside of our houses you are not helping anyone.”
Who the fuck is the bum helping out? He’s not trying to help you out he/she is buying one of three: Meth, booze, smokes.
Some people have no pride…
I wonder why the OB doesn’t take back their refundables themselves.
I used to put out my recyling the night before pick up day and I would be woken up at 3am at the sound of people rummaging through the bags and leaving a mess…so now what I do is bring out the recycling the morning of pic up day before I leave for work…the crackheads will not be up that early :D.
I keep my refundables and give them to kids doing bottle drives or take them to the depot myself…I’m not donating them to crazy people that will probably make a mess.
I cash mine in, fuck having to drive off the residents of Little Arse Corner with a flame thrower. I don’t need them cashing in and filling up my ditch with gallons of Keiths for a midnight swim.
Haha TTFN you’re hilarious…so true
“Damn crackheads. How about NOT putting refundables out for these losers to steal?”
You, ma’am, are a moron.
I doubt if the crackheads read LTTWB, but they have been known to respond to a baseball bat across the noggin.
You can send them messages in Morse code with judicious use of a Taser.
do you really think the homeless guy has a computer?
wait for him with the garden hose.