Comments on: Fixing other people’s green mistakes (Day 365)…

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:47:19 +0000

you are just a grrrrrrrrreat citizen. this going green thing is wonderful, however, i don’t think I would have done the work myself I would have knocked on their door and said something to that person(s). I am sure they have lived in that house long enough to know what goes into what can. I lived with a friend for one year in a house and I learned quick besides the DEP will give them a fine and they will not pick up that can for that day. in addition, they need to learn for themselves what goes where!!!!!!!!!

P.S. you can not go aruond righting everyones wrong…………

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:33:38 +0000

Just a heads up - Styrofoam ™ (which is a brand name for the generic thermoplastic ‘polystyrene’), aka “recycling logo #6″ /can/ be recycled in Toronto - there’s no “curbside pickup” (blue bin) however if you take it to nearly any transfer station it can be recycled. This one-page PDF has all the info about PS and other goodies than can be taken to the transfer station:
http://www.toronto.ca/garbage/pdf/solidwastedrop-offdepots.pdf

By: Sense of Balance

Sense of Balance — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:46:16 +0000

Trash collectors in my part of London (the Ontario one) seem to have a simple policy; what they’re supposed to do is have separate receptacles in the same truck for garbage and for recycling. What they seem to have is a quota for garbage; because, most often, the plastic bottles go right in with the pizza crusts. And our 95-year-old householders are so dutiful too about separating the recycling …

Go get ‘em, girl!

By: Alina

Alina — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:38:11 +0000

Wow, I had no idea folks get so worked up over pizza boxes

By: Kuri

Kuri — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:57:36 +0000

This is why I love Edmonton - they pay someone else to sort the recycling and tell me that if I’m ever in doubt whether something can be recycled or not, to include it in recycling. People are paid to do sorting, which is why participation rates are so high here in an otherwise not quite so green city.

By: Cheap Like Me

Cheap Like Me — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:17:53 +0000

This one has a corollary you might have covered earlier … my own angst when my neighbors put a big stack of cardboard (or even just a box or two) out with the trash, when they could *so easily* recycle it. I have claimed their boxes for my bin before …

I join your other readers in hoping you won’t quit blogging for good once March 1 rolls around.

By: MamaBird

MamaBird — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:46:41 +0000

Like Fake Plastic Fish says, you really never know what happens to that recycling after you put it out. Thanks for the reminder on the pizza boxes. My most horrific not-recycling experience was watching an employee at Whole Foods gather up all of the recycling (plastic bottles) behind the customer service desk and then bellow at another employee to go throw them out! You know I said something, and you know they threw them out anyways…. ack!

By: Hellcat13

Hellcat13 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:21:32 +0000

I have to show this one to my boyfriend. He constantly throws things in the recycling just because he thinks they *should* be recyclable. (Mind you, he grew up in an area with the wet/dry system, where if you would touch it again, it goes in dry, and if you wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole (chicken wrapping, used kleenex, etc) then it goes in the wet. Ottawa’s rules are a bit of a change for him.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:17:33 +0000

Wow, congratulations for tomorrow in advance. I hope you saved some “research” from yesterday’s post as a celebratory indulgence for tomorrow! And please don’t cut out the blog cold (freerange organic) turkey on us!

By: arduous

arduous — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:03:59 +0000

“But that’s fine, tomorrow isn’t so far away, and at least it gives me a bit of extra time to spend with you, my faithful readers.”

Wait a second. In your haiku you promised there was so much more!! Now I’m scared. Don’t leave us!!