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New neighbours, old garbage

Remember when you were a little kid, and a new family would move onto your street? You’d stand there watching the moving truck being unloaded, looking for clues about the children, how old they were, and what sex, hoping they’d have one just like you, someone with the potential to be your new best friend.

The […]

Garbage pickup every two weeks?

The City of Ottawa is considering picking up garbage bi-weekly instead of weekly, but picking up all recycling/composting (blue box, black box and green bin) weekly instead of bi-weekly.

I like this idea. Ever since the green bin composting program was launched a year ago, I’ve been generating very little actual ‘garbage.’ Maybe, on average, […]

Green Bin Program contaminated by funding issues

Green Bins being delivered

I got my Green Bin yesterday and I like it. A lot. The program sounds good too – from what I understand, the high temperatures achievable by the huge volume of our collective organic waste is going to make this a very efficient way of breaking down garbage. All kinds of […]