33 Replies to “Black Bin, Green Bin”

  1. soooooo this is still happening.
    still?
    yep. because when l wuz picking up my BA @ soon-to-be-renamed mcmaster university in soon-to-be-renamed hamilton ontariowe . . . . sorta big scandal.
    because egad, in the wee hours sumbuddy dun seen the GARBAGE truck show up on campus, NOT the paper recycling truck, and scoop aaaaaaaall that carefully separated waste papuh.
    tsk tsk tsk
    this wuz 1994
    30 bloody years ago and they are STILL doing it.
    is everything going on these days engulfed in bullshyt?

  2. I stopped throwing aluminum cans in the bin about ten years ago. I crush them flat and save them in a corner of the garage. Twice a year I take them to the scrapyard. Currently about 40 cents US a pound.

    The city still gets my junk mail and cardboard, the occasional glass bottle, which I assume goes straight to the landfill.

      1. No deposit where I live. We have a powerful beer lobby.

        not worth driving out of state, scrapyard is ten minutes away.

        I don’t go raiding all the bins in the neighborhood like the bums. Just my own empties, zero effort, little extra beer money.

    3. We have a deposit on aluminum cans. I crush them and when I get enough, I take them to the recycler and get the deposits back and then go and buy silver Maple Leafs. My own form of alchemy. It’s worked out pretty good so far.

    4. Huh….40 cents a Pound eh..??
      We get in Alberta 10 Cents per can…well not really, Cause it’s charged the day ya buy a 2four. (That’s 24 cans of beer in Canadian). And yea, I crush em too….Milk jugs, Water jugs – all get the same treatment: CRUSHED.!

      No sense going to the Bottle depot with literally cans of AIR.

  3. Hey, if it makes people feel good to put their trash in different holes, and it doesn’t cost anything, who does it hurt?

    1. Well for home collection it DOES cost. At least the bills I get every bloody month indicates so.

      1. Indeed it does Art. We have three different trucks picking up waste and “recycle” material. A freaking joke as even when segregated material still goes to landfills.

        1. Same thing here in Calgary. Black for trash, Green for food stuffs and garden waste, Blue for “recyclables”…. and it all gets stored in Containers in a Yard somewhere in our Industrial area…as NO ONE wants our Garbage..

          How can that be.??
          It’s the Finest Garbage available today.??

          Why the F we aren’t incinerating & creating Useful energy form said eminently burnable product is well beyond me. CO2 or some such BS..?

  4. The city’s explanation for how public waste and recycling bins are handled makes sense actually but, then, just have garbage bins in public places. Why the charade? That said, who knows they aren’t doing this with all of it? Here in my city, I put out a nearly empty garbage bin every week and an absolutely overflowing recycling bin every two weeks. How does that make sense?

    1. I do the same thing. It’s because we’re nice people, trying to do the right thing. You probably pay your taxes too.

  6. Is that usual to put garbage into a pickup and not a garbage truck?Won’t it just blow out of the truck bed?

    1. If you don’t have a tarp over your load here, you will be fined so … probably it will blow all over the place.

  7. If they can only train the children to properly sort their garbage the whole make work scheme will work.. Those in the money don’t see it as their failure.. No its ours.. I often joke you could dump dead bodies in those bins if they are properly spaced and the right distance from the curb..

    Don’t even get me going on the bin pollution.. Destroying curb appeal.. Nobody has got the balls to do it right..
    Weekly pickup.. One large bin.. Use a MACHINE to sort it.. Recycle the profitable stuff.. Cleanly burn the burnable stuff and put the rest in the dump..

    I often wonder.. If its going to the dump anyway why do we have to sort the good stuff out of it?.. You know its BS when the green garbage trucks are plastered with political slogans like some Weimar Republic brown shirt wagon..

  8. I remember a television station doing an investigative video where they followed a recycle truck to see where they dumped the sorted items. This was in Quebec. The truck drove to the dump and tipped up the container so that everything just poured out in the general trash. It was one of the large trucks with the openings in the side for all the different classes of recyclables.
    Probably over thirty years ago. I don’t think we would find a television station exposing government corruption like that today.

  9. Waste Management keeps sending out missives SCOLDING those of us who dispose of our rubbish in plastic bags. They can GFThemselves. Those plastic trash can liners keep my kitchen clean and sanitary … you know … like the MAIN PURPOSE of even having an organized trash collection and disposal system. These MORONS don’t even remember what their PRIMARY Mission is …

    1. Their primary mission is irritate the hell out of everyone….and they are doing a great job of that.

  10. Couple of years back, I was outside, heard the garbage truck stop and they must have been training a new guy; they can’t see me nor I them but I heard the one guy saying to the other… “they never recycle, like never – so don’t worry about this on that run”, made me chuckle. Don’t eat much food from a can these days, but the paper we use for woodstove and carboard for the outdoor spring clean up fires. Couple of times per yr might be wine bottles but they never took them in the past so they go into the garbage now.
    Forced to pay carbon taxes not forced to blue box – they’ll have to pay me to do that.

  11. The only thing worth recycling is what people will pay you for. Cans and bottles for example. The rest is by definition worthless. If it made economic sense to recycle something, people would pay you for it. I’m a good boy and put my garbage in the trash, but I still end up on the losing side of plastic bans because morons find plastic bags in rivers in Asia. Explain to me how the crap I put in the trash in the middle of the prairies ends up in the Yangtze so it’s my fault and I have to pay for it.

    2. If it made economic sense to recycle something, people would pay you for it.

      This. Oh God, this. I’ve been saying for years, if recycling is such a great idea why is no one paying me for my garbage? If it’s so great for the environment, why am I throwing out so much more stuff (that just ends up in the dump anyway) instead of reusing things like glass jars and plastic bags?

      If there’s a reason to recycle, people will do it. When my branch office closed I had to dispose of four full-height racks of old servers. Trucked them to the local scrap recycling and got $150 for them because the trace metals in the circuit boards are worth money.

  12. I live in the country and pay for each garbage bag they pick up. The more full the blue bins, the less bags I pay for.

  15. This insanity needs to end. I think there’s an opportunity here to compromise with lefties on this. We (conservatives/sane people) get to end the collection of recyclables (those recyclables that cannot be recycled for a profit), lefties (communists/insane people) will be allowed to devote the money saved to planting street trees/building and maintaining public parks, as they profess to love trees. These jobs would be so much more desirable and fulfilling to the people who previously collected/segregated recyclables. Everybody wins.

  16. Well, on the positive side, I’ve been to Mexico and, at least, whatever we’re doing with trash, we seem to be doing better than them.

  17. When the same truck picks up the grey garbage bin AND the blue recycle bin in one stop, YAY, I can bring both bins back in now…not the usual 6-8 hours, or maybe next day, for the second bin pickup. The city has two trucks, one for each, sometimes, but rarely, one right after the other.

  18. We burn 75% of our household trash, compost 5%, recycle 10% for $$, and I haul the last 10% to the local landfill twice a year for a $12.00 tipping fee. The recycled stuff pays for the tipping fee, gas to the landfill, the occasional 24 of Pil and a night out once in a while.

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