Alright, so the end of August and beginning of September is a busy time for people moving. The students that lived in my building just moved out and had a lot of garbage to get rid of, as would be expected.
A mattress, several bags of garbage, and various other furniture. All of this on top of all the other garbage that’s been sitting out in the heat for the past two weeks because we for some reason don’t have weekly garbage pick-up.
Is it to make us not throw out as much garbage or something? Because it’s not working…. The garbage receptacles are right down the side of my building where I have to walk to get to my entrance, and as well as right beside my entrance… IT SMELLS AWFUL!
I gag every time I go in and out! So I get excited that it was finally garbage day…. I get back from work around 4pm to see piles of garbage and furniture still not collected all up my street. I get to my house and see the mattress still there as well as like 10 bags of garbage and other small furniture. I understand there is a limit of how much one house can throw out, but we are a 4 unit house and it seems every house/apartment on the street has a massive pile of trash still remaining as well.
People move in the summer! Can’t the city realize that it would be a good idea to send out more trucks to deal with the overload?!?
So now, there is going to be garbage that has been sitting there for A MONTH!! What am I supposed to do with the garbage I’ll need to throw out over the next two weeks? That will only add to the pile and I’m sure not all of our garbage will be taken again the next garbage day, and so on and so on.
This is super gross and makes me feel like this is some dirty, undeveloped country or something. We already had maggots, raccoons, flies and rats this summer.
How can the city complain about vermin but do absolutely nothing about it? I also recycle and don’t usually have anything to compost, but they take those every week. Why take recyclables every week? They’re not going to rot or attract critters. If anything, bums get to them before the city would anyway.
PLEEEEASE, TAKE ALL OF OUR GARBAGE AWAY! —Smelly on Windsor
This article appears in Sep 9-15, 2010.
yeah o.p., and be real glad that you don’t live in new york city, now that is one fucking shithole. i agree that trash should be picked up more often, the only other thing you can do, is to make it look real nice, like gifts, and leave someplace easy to get at, they will be gone before you know it.
Ask your landlord to cart it away, it should be their responsibility. They have to pay a fee to take it to the dump, but the problem will just grow otherwise.
Been throwing out my garbage in HRM for years, never had an issue, 4 units x 5 bags per unit = 20 bags bi-weekly…not sure when it’s picked up ? check here : http://halifax.ca/wrms/collection.html …or call 490-4000 … I’m sure HRM is aware that it is moving season…but they’re not going to pick up extra garbage…that would be a mess…someone’s gotta pay for it…I highly doubt someone in Porter’s Lake is going to want to pay more taxes because some kids in Halifax are moving…the dump is open 7 days/week…and it’s dirt cheap (if you have a vehicle to haul it out there).
I wonder if your part of the Monday ( labour day ) collection…if so…collected tomorrow due to the hurricane last week.
i get confused too, when i look around in the southend of halifax.do not know what country this could be,however i could make some guessess by what i observe
spoiler alert:
Garbage pickup was cancelled last week due to Earl…it was in the news.
If your building has more than 6 units, HRM has no pickup responsibility. Call the landlord.