In LA, trash day was a weekly welcomed inconvenience. It required dragging out full garbage cans every Wednesday night and dragging empty ones back on Thursday afternoon/evening. It was never a fun task, but there was always a bit a pleasure in getting rid of the trash. Trash Day was always a reliable weekly event. Even when there were holidays, we knew that our trash would eventually be picked up each week.But this is not so in Vancouver. Since July, the city's civic workers have been on strike. This means that there is no one to come pick up trash... at all!!! Residents in Vancouver have taken to several options:
- Line up for hours at the city dump site,
- Sneakily throw trash into public or business receptacles,
- Bring trash to nearby cities like Burnaby or Richmond,
- Hire a private sanitation company,
- Or give trash to friends who live in condominiums or apartments with privatized trash collection.
I can't wait for this city strike to be over! Apparently, Vancouver is notorious for strikes. Can't we all just get along? I merely want to dump my trash like a civilized person. Sigh... another reason to miss LA.
2 comments:
it's me, carolyn. baby, about the only thing that i can afford here is the water and waste. they pick up garbage TWICE a week! AND they pick up ANYTHING! last week our landlord put in a new dishwasher. we put the old one outside on garbage day and BAM! I watched them pick it up and throw it in the truck! get out! isn't that incredible?! i said to dick, "hmm... we'd better be careful not to leave any of our kids outside on garbage day..."
wow, you're such a resourceful girl! That definitely does stink! Hope you get your reading done this weekend! :)
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