Shameless Bragging
Recently we had a civic workers strike in Toronto, which included the outside workers that perform garbage collection. For six weeks there was no garbage collection and you might have thought it had been months judging by the mountains of garbage that were stashed, abandoned and dropped off at temporary dumps that sprang up all over the city in parks and parking lots. My wife and I were adamant that we would not drop off garbage at any temporary site. We made one trip during the strike to drop off one green bin worth of wet compost to my Mother-in-law's that we couldn't compost ourselves (meat, bones, milk products), but apart from that we had only one full garbage bin of garbage and one full recycling bin of recycling when we finally got our service back this week.
It is amazing what can be achieved by not buying your products with lot's of packaging!
Now, I do have to admit that we had a lot of construction waste in the back yard that I paid our landscaper to remove. The difference is I don't mind paying to remove this kind of garbage. Every time I need to do it it makes me more conscious of the amount of waste we generate and we can always generate less.
Ok, back to regular blogging.... Enjoy a real summer weekend, everyone!
Gypsy: Good for you! (08/07/09)
Andi: Yay Greenies! Well, I can relate that when one doesn't have garbage pick up, the sheer inconvenience has led us to less waste.....going to the dump lacks a certain luster. (08/09/09)
PM: I think everyone should have to take their garbage to the dump at least once. It is one of the benefits of originally being a country boy. ;) (08/11/09)