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[mbjj]

Dude, back in the day everyone had a backyard incinerator.

My dad burned right on top of the veggie garden and also in an incinerator. When we moved into our house in Victoria, we burned our garden waste so didn't have much of a problem. We didn't burn wet stuff or damp leaves, so very little smoke. Kept the stuff dry and in half an hour it was gone. 

[Mike K.]

As long as you get the burn pile going hot, you can even burn wetter materials. The heat takes care of the moisture right quick with minimal smoke.

 

But you still have to wait for a 'good' venting index day to burn, which many don't. In my area you can only burn during daylight hours, and you don't need a permit. You just have to wait for the proper venting index.

[Matt R.]

Hey that reminds me, I haven’t had to call the FD yet this year on my neighbours burning garbage! Soon enough I’m sure… unless they finally got the message.

[Matt R.]

As long as you get the burn pile going hot, you can even burn wetter materials. The heat takes care of the moisture right quick with minimal smoke.
 
But you still have to wait for a 'good' venting index day to burn, which many don't. In my area you can only burn during daylight hours, and you don't need a permit. You just have to wait for the proper venting index.

No permit at all hey? I have to go online, submit address etc. and confirm I’ve read the rules. No charge, of course.

[aastra]

Here's another interesting tidbit to add to the file re: the slow pace of things in the easygoing good ol' days as versus our hurly-burly 21st-century world (in which we now seem to have to wait for ages for just about everything):

 

 

Daily Colonist
May 24, 1972

Oak Bay:
Incinerator permits expire May 31 and new permits can be obtained at the firehall at 1703 Monterey, 24 hours a day, although firemen prefer no calls after midnight.

 

It makes me wonder how many Oak Bay residents were taking advantage of those convenient office hours between midnight and sunrise.

[Victoria Watcher]

Saanich puts plan to charge for yard-waste drop-off on hold

 

 

The plan had been to impose a new fee for dumping yard waste while offering larger curbside organics recycling bins.

 

https://www.timescol...on-hold-8610652

[JimV]

This new recycling company the CRD uses seems completely incompetent.  Our pickup day is Friday.  The record so far:

 

1.  Picked up on Friday, per schedule.

2.  Picked up on Saturday, after we called them.

3.  Picked up on Monday.

4.  Picked up on Monday after we called them.

5.  No pick up again today (Friday.)  We called again and they said they would come on Monday.

 

For at least the last two times they have not picked up our neighbour’s boxes either.  Material at homes on both sides were picked up and the truck has to drive right past our house.

Edited by JimV, 19 April 2024 - 03:28 PM.

[Mike K.]

That might mean that your neighbour is not placing the materials correctly for pick-up. Usually they’ll leave a card with info on what went wrong.

Could your boxes be hard to see, maybe?