685 replies to this topic

[Mike K.]

It is wrong.

[LJ]

Everything 3 and above gets sent to the landfill anyway. I recycle 1 and 2 plastics, cans and bottles only.

The cans I collect get taken once a month to the charity bin at the recycle facility.

[lanforod]

For me this is an additional 15 bucks or so cost per year (yes, we drink a lot of milk). We could perhaps recoup it, but thats a fair amount of space and effort to do. Another cash grab by govmints... sigh

[James Bay walker]

I think I have had enough and I am just going to go back to tossing everything into the garbage. Charging families extra for milk just seems wrong especially since most people were already putting the jugs into recycling.  

 

Extra for milk fats you mean.  No such charge for skim milk powder, which, is way cheaper per glass anyway.

 

jbw

 

ps.  Think of the hundreds of thousands of milk jugs families chuck into the landfill each year.  Ugh!!!  This ought to help cut way back on that and get some useful plastic recycled.  Just add it to your usual stuff you're taking in for recycling.
 

Edited by James Bay walker, 13 February 2022 - 04:36 PM.

[James Bay walker]

Of course not but as usual it takes some personal responsibility.

Dump charges 50% extra if content's inappropriate, my condo bldg management tells me.

 

jbw

[Love the rock]

Extra for milk fats you mean.  No such charge for skim milk powder, which, is way cheaper per glass anyway.

 

jbw

 

ps.  Think of the hundreds of thousands of milk jugs families chuck into the landfill each year.  Ugh!!!  This ought to help cut way back on that and get some useful plastic recycled.  Just add it to your usual stuff you're taking in for recycling.
 

 

Dump charges 50% extra if content's inappropriate, my condo bldg management tells me.

 

jbw

I don’t know if people choosing not to recycle  is such an issue in houses /basement suites . You have limited room in your garbage bins it’s simply not practical not to recycle. Blue boxes are full. Milk jugs are already being recycled .

I feel it’s wrong to charge what amounts to a tax on milk when according to 2220 statistics  one in five kids in BC lives in poverty .

 

 

 

[UDeMan]

bought my usual 4l jug of Island Farms milk and was charged 10 cents deposit and 9 cents enviro fee.  

 

so, even if you return the empty jug for the 10 cents, you are still losing that 9 cents.

 

how come they could recyle these in the blue bin for no charge before, but now they are taking that 9 cents.

 

seems like a tax to me

[Nparker]

...seems like a tax to me

Well only because it is.

[Nparker]

That's the NDP for you. Making life more affordable for British Columbians one new tax at a time. 

[Matt R.]

The dairy board has partnered with the restaurant assoc. to “support” and promote restaurants during this challenging time etc etc with some proceeds going to a no doing worthy cause. I’d rather they had supported restaurants by not jacking prices another 10%.

How’s that for garbage in the CRD.

Dancing banana, and all that.

Edited by Matt R., 14 February 2022 - 06:37 AM.

[Mike K.]

Maybe the enviro fee is the carbon tax on cows?

[Nparker]

Maybe the enviro fee is the carbon tax on cows?

Would recycling the manure not act as a carbon credit to balance off the production of methane?

[todd]

Why are we drinking out of a cow?

[Victoria Watcher]

Why are we drinking out of a cow?

 

Because gorillas are harder to manage?

[Love the rock]

Why are we drinking out of a cow?

You are charged a fee on all milk and non milk products soya ,almond, oat .

[todd]

You are charged a fee on all milk and non milk products soya ,almond, oat .

Only the approved ones likely

[LJ]

The milk and dairy boards add an expense that shouldn't be there.

 

I bought a half gallon of milk for $.87 on sale, usually $1.59, Canadians get ripped off.

[todd]

I notice a better taste with organic milk.

[James Bay walker]

I don’t know if people choosing not to recycle  is such an issue in houses /basement suites . You have limited room in your garbage bins it’s simply not practical not to recycle. Blue boxes are full. Milk jugs are already being recycled .

I feel it’s wrong to charge what amounts to a tax on milk when according to 2220 statistics  one in five kids in BC lives in poverty .

No such charge on skim milk powder.  If they're living in poverty, why would they be blowing a fortune on liquid milk anyway?

 

jbw

[Mike K.]

The real question is, what can cool your CPU better, to process your dial up internet faster. 2% real milk, or powdered skim milk?