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By: Tanya Quinn

Tanya Quinn — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:29:31 +0000

Oh I really could start ranting here. I can’t look in the kitchen trash at work anymore, it drives me mad! (pop cans, single serving creamers, compostables galore, more tin cans which i’m not sure if people are too lazy to recycle a few feet away or if they are too lazy to clean them) When I was in Toronto, you could choose your size of can, and paid extra accordingly. I couldn’t believe the number of people that got an extra large, to me that would be a couple years worth of garbage. Even the small which you had to take was super spacious. I had a neighbour that would not recycle anything, even wine bottles, and when it came to pay for garbage curiously did not put anything out. Sadly she wasn’t converted to zero waste but rather using her mammoth recycle bin as a general purpose. Still I feel we put out too much – the main culprit is kitty litter as I cannot seem to convert the cats who started on clay litter to a more enviro friendly litter that could be backyard-composted. Tanya on Denman.

By: layne

layne — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:18:45 +0000

Nice work! How to educate people???? The resources are available (I just had a home pickup by pacific mobile recycling, who took six large bags of plastic for only $30) but people have to get interested.
Maybe a stickering campaign (stickering everything in the supermarket) would raise awareness, but then those stickers are made of plastic!
Layne

By: Nina

Nina — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:35:55 +0000

Argh! Disgusting. I’m not going to call you any names because I judge people by their garbage too – my parents-out-law who put newspapers in their main bin, for example, or my aunt who has a huge garden but has given up composting, or my neighbours who put clothes in the bin and cans there too. Mind you, I hate to think what you’d say about my “trash”… We carefully separate the recyclables, but there’s an awful lot of plastic in there, and it’s taken almost a year of living in this flat to find a solution to the food waste problem (I’ll be sharing that on my blog soon).

By: Janice

Janice — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:37:53 +0000

I’m with you! Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.
Thank you for providing inspiration … it helps greatly knowing I’m not the only one horrified by all the plastic (besides my kids, they are horrified too) – and the trash, lack of recycling – and all our other horrific mess.
Thank you. <3