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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?

[Victoria Watcher]

In streamlining services and moving to reducing waste, the CRD is looking at ways to cut costs and cut the impact of waste on the environment. But rather than generate policy or a regional campaign that encourages households to reduce waste, the emphasis is on how to collect and process waste efficiently and cost-effectively through contracts with waste collection and disposal vendors. 

 

In May 2021, the CRD Board approved the region’s Solid Waste Management Plan. It was approved by the province in July 2023.

 

Currently, there are four types of waste management in the CRD: landfill, incineration, recycling and composting. Municipalities across the region differ in their approach to solid waste management service provision for residents. Costs associated with solid waste disposal and diversion programs coordinated by the CRD are funded through utility billing, tipping and user fee revenues at Hartland Landfill, service delivery agreements for stewarded materials, the sale of electricity and the sale of recyclables.

 

Saanich and Victoria offer integrated waste pick up for single-family homes which is paid for through utility billing. In Victoria, garbage and organic waste is collected from residential properties every two weeks. The Town of Sidney contracts out the collection of its garbage, kitchen organics, and compostable yard and garden waste to Emterra Environmental.

 

 

 

https://www.capitald...aste-management

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 May 2024 - 03:32 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Nparker]

I have never been so proud as knowing how diverse and equitable Saanich's waste is.

[Barrister]

SWe paid how much for that sign? money well spent says who?

[Nparker]

We paid how much for that sign? money well spent says who?

There is no price too high for virtue signaling.

[LJ]

What utter nonsense, keep sticking woke BS in peoples faces you can expect a reaction.

[dasmo]

It’s Compazhionizm….

[Victoria Watcher]

 

https://x.com/JohnSt...243766605828401

[Mike K.]

Anyone remember Michael Moore’s alternative energy documentary? That turned the tables on his usual audience, and upset a lot of his otherwise supporters.

Also, we waste tremendous amounts of water cleaning recyclables before putting them out on the curb. Like huge amounts of water.

[LJ]

Anyone remember Michael Moore’s alternative energy documentary? That turned the tables on his usual audience, and upset a lot of his otherwise supporters.

Also, we waste tremendous amounts of water cleaning recyclables before putting them out on the curb. Like huge amounts of water.

I don't waste any water on them, it's just an alternate garbage pick up system.

[Mike K.]

They reject dirty containers, or they’re supposed to.

[LJ]

They don't even look at them, pick the bin up and fire the contents into the truck.