Is this just me?

Probably is.

The city of Vancouver is cracking down on what you can chuck out with your garbage and what you can’t. Which is great…save the environment and all that.

I have never understood why the blue boxes are so small for a house! We don’t need to worry here as we are in a town house complex with large communal recycling bins (which bizarrely get stolen periodically ) and a giant garbage bin.

But those boxes seem so small for ALL your recyclables?? We have tonnes here! And that is after sifting out all the one’s to return for deposit!

We have sorting bins on our door step that fill up pretty fast with our family of four.
Anyway, I have found ONE advertisement in the courier which explains some of the regulations and where to drop things off. Apparently there is ONE place for electronics in Vancouver and only on Saturdays.

How many people dispose of the their batteries in the gargbage? A few stores have receptacles for them. But I never remember.

How do people who don’t have cars recycle properly? How are you lugging your big garbage or recyclables to the ‘right’ depot?

I just have a nagging feeling that we really aren’t going about all this properly.

Did you know that you can’t just through out those fancy ‘energy saver’ light bulbs? They have mercury in them.

And here is something gross to think about.

At a hospital….anything with blood on it…clothes, linens, bandages, etc is considered a biohazard and no doubt burned in an incinerator.

What do we do with all our sanitary pads and tampons? Ewwwwwww. We toss em.

And the kitty litter and the dog poop and the diapers (even though we ARE supposed to flush the baby poop).

Ick.