Edited by Matt R., 14 March 2024 - 09:29 PM.

CRD Recycling/garbage
#661
Posted 14 March 2024 - 09:28 PM
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#662
Posted 15 March 2024 - 08:03 AM
I built a giant compost bin last fall and it’s already chock full before the spring garden season even begins. I have a pick-up truck’s worth of cuttings that are on the edge of my driveway ready for a trip to the soil place. I think it’s $15/pick-up load to dump, but that was last year. Wouldn’t be shocked if it’s closer to $20 this year.
Those green bins municipalities provide are cute but they fill up in half a day, or immediately if you trim bushes. Then you wait two weeks.
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#663
Posted 15 March 2024 - 12:34 PM
#664
Posted 15 March 2024 - 01:00 PM
Which is handy, you can burn the witches on there too.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 March 2024 - 01:00 PM.
#665
Posted 15 March 2024 - 01:32 PM
#666
Posted 21 March 2024 - 07:01 AM
Making our waste visible
“I’m not just a garbage picker, I am somebody. I need something. I am worth something to the community. I bring something to the community.” (Levi, Victoria Binner)
According to the 2021 CRD Solid Waste Report, the Capital Regional District (CRD) collected 190,000 tonnes of solid waste and 23,000 tonnes of recyclable materials. By 2045, the CRD landfill will be full. So how can we reduce our consumption and waste now?
Members of the media are invited to “Making Our Waste Visible,” a conversation about waste management with insights from local Diverters (waste pickers), a non-profit group that collects bottles and recycling materials and keeps waste out of the landfill. The complex issues associated with waste, locally and internationally, are impacting climate change and the world needs solutions now.
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#667
Posted 21 March 2024 - 07:09 AM
Half the waste pickers I see are driving luxury vehicles to go from bin to bin!
#668
Posted 21 March 2024 - 07:10 AM
#669
Posted 25 March 2024 - 11:20 AM
We are already paying for yard waste disposal
I am insulted by Saanich Coun. Colin Plant’s statement that charging for yard waste disposal “will mean an adjustment for people who have been used to a ‘free’ service — the drop-off service was covered by taxes.”
Yes, the service is covered by taxes — and so are the bike lanes. I don’t use the bike lanes but I still pay for them through my taxes.
People using the bike lanes do not pay a user fee for this “free” service, regardless if they pay taxes.
Taxpayers using any public funded service should not be made to pay twice. Can’t we find some piece of the eight-per-cent-plus property tax increase we have been promised, to continue what has proven to be a useful service?
One solution is to provide larger green curbside bins but Saanich councillors are kidding themselves if they think that any home gardener can fit all of their green waste into their curbside bins.
While we do our best to compost what we can, space for most home gardeners can be an issue.
If I could compost all the waste in my garden, I would, but it isn’t possible. So I take my surplus green waste to the yard, where it can be processed to decompose into a useful garden product.
Once a year, I “buy back” the decomposed product to use on my garden, usually from a private company.
I can see a scene unfold at city hall with angry, pitchfork carrying villagers protesting the cutback of services along with the annual tax hike. Good grief, does nothing ever change!?
But perhaps more likely, if people have to pay a user fee for this not-free service, I see more than old sofas and mattresses deposited along the sides of the roads in our municipality.
And who pays for the cleanup?
Mary Godlonton
Saanich
https://www.timescol...y-going-8503319
If I could compost all the waste in my garden, I would, but it isn’t possible.
How is it "not possible" for her to compost her yard waste? I'll admit I've never taken care of a very large yard or garden, but I think if you generate lots of "yard waste" you build a bigger composter. I grew up in a family that did lots of yard work, I never recall us needing to take anything off the property.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 March 2024 - 11:24 AM.
#670
Posted 25 March 2024 - 11:29 AM
Far better to just pile the branches and other woody debris in to a burn pile, get the free permit and wait for the right day.
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#671
Posted 25 March 2024 - 11:33 AM
Yeah same we had a larger corner lot in saanich, always with the trimming and cutting and growing and whatever we just had a large, organized compost system. Branches do take years to break down but they go.
Far better to just pile the branches and other woody debris in to a burn pile, get the free permit and wait for the right day.
There is absolutely no burning of yard waste permitted within the Saanich OCP.
#672
Posted 25 March 2024 - 11:36 AM
One year my dad doused the pampas grass with gasoline and set it on fire to try to kill it. Ended up just burning the lawn, pampas grass came right back the next year.
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#673
Posted 25 March 2024 - 01:49 PM
Did you know:
In the last 2 years, Victoria binners/diverters (waste pickers) have diverted about 1,000 pounds in bottles and recycling materials in 88 pick-ups from the Hartland landfill to the bottle depots.
Most binners/diverters spend between 2-6 hours a day collecting bottles and recycling materials.
An average income for a Victoria-based binner/diverter is between $10 - $75 /day.
Some binners/diverters use a shopping cart, while 34% use bikes; 45% of binners/diverters work alone.
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#674
Posted 25 March 2024 - 02:13 PM
There is absolutely no burning of yard waste permitted within the Saanich OCP.
You can burn yard waste between October 16 and April 30 in Rural Saanich...outside the Urban Containment Boundary.
(in Saanich we have a border that contains Urbans in specified areas)
https://www.saanich....or-burning.html
#676
Posted 25 March 2024 - 02:34 PM
We could never compost everything we have. We have woody branches, evergreen branches, woody thorny branches and lots of weeds, dead plants, grass clippings etc. Our home compost was so deep it reached up to the eaves on our garage. We've gradually been able to dig it out over the past few years, but we ran out of places to put rotted compost and as you get older, it's a lot of physical work. We can easily fill up our green bin in one week, never mind two. The city branch pickup isn't very useful as it's at the wrong time of year. If you prune flowering shrubs in February, you lose all the blooms. We do most of our pruning in May and June, then have nowhere to put it all.
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#677
Posted 25 March 2024 - 03:16 PM
It’s good to make your own compost to avoid unwanted weeds springing out from store bought soil or garden centre soil. I’ve also found glass, plastic and other oddities this year in freshly bought soil.
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#679
Posted 25 March 2024 - 03:46 PM
A 1971 news item mentions there were 717 licensed backyard burners in frickin' Nanaimo -- not today's Nanaimo, but 1971's Nanaimo. So we can assume there would have been many thousands of incinerators in Greater Victoria's neighbourhoods.
I remember sometimes the fires could be pretty intense even in fairly compact CoV/Oak Bay backyards. It's funny because when the movement came along to ban burning there doesn't seem to have been all that much concern about potential safety issues re: having hundreds of fires all over the city burning in close proximity to houses and/or trees. Just make sure the fire is 15 feet away from any structures, cover it with a spark screen, have a garden hose handy, and you're good to go. The controversy seems to have been mainly about the smoke/odor nuisance and potential air-quality impacts re: illegally burning trash and household junk. A 1974 news item noted how burning was banned in the CoV from June through August, but not banned in Esquimalt and Oak Bay during those same summer months. Fire season back then was a fickle creature.
In a 1968 article, Alderman Baird said it might be time to stop backyard burning, because "there were more and more apartment buildings". I'm not sure what he meant by that but I assume he was thinking about the number of potential complaints related to burning. If your house is surrounded by other houses then you'd trigger maybe 10-20 complaints when you burn a pile of yard clippings, a year's worth of dirty diapers, a stack of old tires, and the exhumed carcass of your great granddad's mule. But if your house is adjacent to hundreds of apartment units then you'd generate a lot more complaints than that, for sure.
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Daily Colonist
February 3, 1971
A "perennial thing" which is proposed, investigated, debated, referred and finally rejected each year, is back.
This time around it landed in the lap of Victoria's newly-formed pollution control committee.
It's the annual call for a ban on the burning of leaves and rubbish in backyard incinerators.
Victoria Ald. Clyde Savage got the issue to a swift start Tuesday. He called the use of incinerators "an abuse that causes great inconvenience" to a lot of people.
"This is a perennial thing. It has been turned down every year. Now that we have a pollution control committee, maybe they should deal with the matter."
The next step will be for City Engineer Jim Garnett to wipe the dust off all the reports he had prepared in connection with backyard incinerators over the years.
#680
Posted 25 March 2024 - 03:49 PM
If your house is surrounded by other houses then you'd trigger maybe 10-20 complaints when you burn a pile of yard clippings, a year's worth of dirty diapers, a stack of old tires, and the exhumed carcass of your great granddad's mule.
I hope Mike K. takes a moment to appreciate how hassle-free his boonies lifestyle really is.
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