Let them eat cake
Last week I promised I would share the following with you.
DearEngineering dweebs Recycling Gods
It was recently announced that you intend to break out the tough love on recycling vagrants. Now, you know me. I loooove the environment. I love you guys but, really, are you really going to bust me for every scrap of recycling I misfile? I am a librarian. I take my filing pretty seriously but even I have my limits.
Regardless of all that I must register a complaint. Hear me, right here and right now. If you plan on busting the fair citizens ofGotham err Vancouver you better do us one favor first. I am begging you here. Please for the love of god either start accepting those commercial garbage bag sized blue bags or else triple the size of the "paper products" receptacles.
WTF?!
You pretty much make me throw away paper by making it far too hard to fit all the waste paper I have into those stupid little yellow bags you have especially designed for what?? the equivalent of 23 undergraduate essays stacked neatly back into a ream?? I have 3 -- they are not enough. During the summer garbage strike I discovered that we have quite a lot of what I call dry garbage. Not garbage with a wry sense of humor or aplomb for a limerick but rather garbage that is actually recycling in disguise. Stuff like business cards, old to do lists, book dustjackets, junk mail literally ad naseum, the over in all the over-packaging involved in everything from toy trains to condoms to fish flavoured spelt crackers. We have lots of this stuff and you know Idon't didn't recycle it, then as soon as I gave up your curbside service... As soon as I could cram it into a garbage bag sized collection unit what happened? Well let me tell you ... our personal garbage stores fell by 60-70%! Am I alone in this?
Now, don't let me get sidetracked on buying everything in bulk and otherwise just skipping the packaging I know, I know. But buddy, that just ain't gonna happen. I like eating my ice cream of the Ben and Jerry's variety. Ever since the big lye accident my husband prefers it when I wash the clothes with detergent from the store. My kids, when they eat, like to eat goldfish salt chunks of the vacu-seal variety. Hey, I yam what I yam. We will look at our problem but what about you? Don't you think you could lighten up on us a bit and simply let us recycle what we have? Isn't that the plan??
You know just because I am a nutritionally-challenged, couch potatoing, enviro-lightweight doesn't mean I don't want to recycle... right?
Sincerly
Citizen Mo
Dear
It was recently announced that you intend to break out the tough love on recycling vagrants. Now, you know me. I loooove the environment. I love you guys but, really, are you really going to bust me for every scrap of recycling I misfile? I am a librarian. I take my filing pretty seriously but even I have my limits.
Regardless of all that I must register a complaint. Hear me, right here and right now. If you plan on busting the fair citizens of
WTF?!
You pretty much make me throw away paper by making it far too hard to fit all the waste paper I have into those stupid little yellow bags you have especially designed for what?? the equivalent of 23 undergraduate essays stacked neatly back into a ream?? I have 3 -- they are not enough. During the summer garbage strike I discovered that we have quite a lot of what I call dry garbage. Not garbage with a wry sense of humor or aplomb for a limerick but rather garbage that is actually recycling in disguise. Stuff like business cards, old to do lists, book dustjackets, junk mail literally ad naseum, the over in all the over-packaging involved in everything from toy trains to condoms to fish flavoured spelt crackers. We have lots of this stuff and you know I
Now, don't let me get sidetracked on buying everything in bulk and otherwise just skipping the packaging I know, I know. But buddy, that just ain't gonna happen. I like eating my ice cream of the Ben and Jerry's variety. Ever since the big lye accident my husband prefers it when I wash the clothes with detergent from the store. My kids, when they eat, like to eat goldfish salt chunks of the vacu-seal variety. Hey, I yam what I yam. We will look at our problem but what about you? Don't you think you could lighten up on us a bit and simply let us recycle what we have? Isn't that the plan??
You know just because I am a nutritionally-challenged, couch potatoing, enviro-lightweight doesn't mean I don't want to recycle... right?
Sincerly
Citizen Mo
Labels: city of wankcouver, garbage, recycling
posted by mo-wo at 1:39 p.m.
3 Comments:
Well said!
How I do not miss those wee bags. Blessed I am now to have a garbage and recycling room in the parking garage, enabling me to recycle all the crap I can fit in a milk crate and then drag downstairs.
I do giggle to think of the City trying to fine The Paper Offenders. I wonder if they'll set up a tip-line and if so, how much money I could make reporting my bureaucrat co-workers.
That is why I like townhouse living...our big recycling bins...but we still go nuts with it too.
they don't empty them NEARLY enough.
I'm finding that I'm loving our three-stage garbage thing now. paper and plastic and metal and glass go in recycle, of course, then any organic stuff and "wet" waste go in the green bin for mass recycling, and only those odd pieces like plastic wrap and milk bags go in the garbage, making it fairly slim. But still, I keep thinking that less packaging in the first place would be better than the endless recycling and garbage. But then, I don't do the shopping, so just cutting down on the plastic bags was a good start towards victory, if you ask me.
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