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[vortoozo]

rinsing milk containers will just mean more water use.

 

They need to be rinsed now before being put out in the recycling. There's no difference in water use.

[mbjj]

I made sure that while plastic grocery bags were being handed out, we collected as many as we could! Very useful items.

[sebberry]

Alright, well I guess Lisa has reinstated the plastic bag ban.  

 

Honestly the more the government wants to meddle in the process by which I take my groceries home, my lunch to work or the countless other things I do with the bags, the less I'm inclined to care about my waste.  The more you frustrate me, the less I'm concerned about what goes in the garbage.  Simple as that.

[Nparker]

Since I do most of my shopping outside of the CoV these days, Lisa's latest edict doesn't bother me too much.

Edited by Nparker, 15 April 2021 - 04:20 PM.

[rmpeers]

Alright, well I guess Lisa has reinstated the plastic bag ban.

Honestly the more the government wants to meddle in the process by which I take my groceries home, my lunch to work or the countless other things I do with the bags, the less I'm inclined to care about my waste. The more you frustrate me, the less I'm concerned about what goes in the garbage. Simple as that.

Ah, so the pandemic is over, presumably? Cool.

[Matt R.]

Alright, well I guess Lisa has reinstated the plastic bag ban.

Honestly the more the government wants to meddle in the process by which I take my groceries home, my lunch to work or the countless other things I do with the bags, the less I'm inclined to care about my waste. The more you frustrate me, the less I'm concerned about what goes in the garbage. Simple as that.

Why? Is it just purely out of spite?

Matt.

Edited by Matt R., 15 April 2021 - 06:24 PM.

[Nparker]

Why? Is it just purely out of spite?...

Spite seems to be the catalyst for many of the mayor's and council's decisions. What's sauce for the goose...etc.

[Matt R.]

Spite seems to be the catalyst for many of the mayor's and council's decisions. What's sauce for the goose...etc.

I love it.

Matt.

[sebberry]

Why? Is it just purely out of spite?

Matt.

 

No, but after years of being really diligent about separating all of the different materials and using single-use plastic materials sparingly, I'm tired of being hand-held and micro-managed and told all my efforts haven't been good enough.  To heck with it, I'm throwing my ice cream containers in the garbage and I'm not rinsing them out.

[todd]

Spite seems to be the catalyst for many of the mayor's and council's decisions. What's sauce for the goose...etc.

Yes I tried to warn you about this

Best not to rub it in too much.

[todd]

As long as the cashier change their disposable gloves after handling the bag I guess no problem. You can’t constantly be pouring sanitizer on your hands.

[mbjj]

I just pack my own things as I can space out the weight so the bags don't get too heavy.

[Jackerbie]

Community Charter amendment, bag ban and other plastic waste related bylaws no longer require Provincial approval. Full release here: https://news.gov.bc....1ENV0046-001455

[rjag]

Garbage p/u a few weeks back I had some loose stuff in our can, they refused indicating that it’s the bylaw all garbage must be securely bagged in a plastic bag. Square that circle…

 

 

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[mbjj]

We throw loose stuff in our city can all the time. We often have to replace bits of wood on our porch or stairs, we have other random stuff that is long and wouldn't go in a bag. Don't give the city any ideas! 

[sebberry]

Community Charter amendment, bag ban and other plastic waste related bylaws no longer require Provincial approval. Full release here: https://news.gov.bc....1ENV0046-001455

 

Bit of a shame.  All those extra uses I get out of single use plastics.  Oh well, at least I have a fireplace to burn the paper grocery bags in.  The reusable dog poop bags though, not looking forward to cleaning those.  Thankfully, strata bans all pets. 

[sebberry]

Lisa owes me a new pair of sunglasses.

 

On my way out of my home this morning I grabbed a box of crackers and pot of cream cheese.  I no longer had any plastic checkout bags so I took them as-is as I didn't want to unfold a garage bag to keep them in.  Getting into my non-electric car, my sunglasses slid off the box of crackers and hit the ground, badly scratching one of the lenses.  

 

If I had a bag to carry it in, that wouldn't have happened. 

 

I'm sending Lisa the bill for $250.

[Redd42]

Bit of a shame.  All those extra uses I get out of single use plastics.  Oh well, at least I have a fireplace to burn the paper grocery bags in.  The reusable dog poop bags though, not looking forward to cleaning those.  Thankfully, strata bans all pets. 

 

A very delayed reply - your strata which I'm guessing is at least 70s wood construction allows wood burning fireplaces but not pets?

[sebberry]

A very delayed reply - your strata which I'm guessing is at least 70s wood construction allows wood burning fireplaces but not pets?

 

Early 80s.  Wood burning fireplaces and cigarette/marijuana smoking permitted, no pets or BBQs.

[Victoria Watcher]

NPR:

 

But when Leebrick tried to tell people the truth about burying all the other plastic, she says people didn't want to hear it.

 

"I remember the first meeting where I actually told a city council that it was costing more to recycle than it was to dispose of the same material as garbage," she says, "and it was like heresy had been spoken in the room: You're lying. This is gold. We take the time to clean it, take the labels off, separate it and put it here. It's gold. This is valuable."

 

But it's not valuable, and it never has been. And what's more, the makers of plastic — the nation's largest oil and gas companies — have known this all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite.

 

https://www.npr.org/...uld-be-recycled

 

 

 

why don't we just burn plastic like we do "biofuel" and use it for electricity?  it's already a petroleum product. 

 

i'm not a chemical engineer but if we burn stuff at a high enough temperature, doesn't most of the bad stuff go away?  i burn all my pop cans in my fireplace at 750 Fahrenheit - and i'm still alive.  a few of my downwind neighbours have died young though, now that i think of it.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 October 2021 - 09:36 AM.