Catching up on a story from last week: The woes of litter and decomposed guck for Vancouver.
Some media interpreted the city report on “what to do about this” as calling for a ban. But the city’s head of “les ordures,” Albert Shamess, says that’s probably not the answer.
What ever will they come up with?
7 responses so far ↓
1 Kirk // Feb 15, 2016 at 4:24 pm
A deposit on paper cups could (and probably should) eventually expand to include newspapers. This would be another blow to print media.
2 boohoo // Feb 15, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Intentionally ironic that an ad for free coffee at Starbucks was in the middle of that article with a nice big paper cup?
3 Look Deeper // Feb 15, 2016 at 11:40 pm
In the interview with CBC on this issue, the point was raised but not followed up that in terms of overall waste, the City is generally tracking to its targets with the exception of one area — the largest — commercial and industrial construction waste.
So how many Starbucks coffee cups does it take to equal one demolished house in our landfill?
Is this another example of our City Council chasing windmills to avoid dealing with the real (and difficult) issues?
Litter is a public realm issue for sure. A waste management issue I am not so sure.
4 Sharon Townsend // Feb 16, 2016 at 1:19 pm
engineering budgets have been cut to the core inorder to fund pet city projects. It is time to fund services based on need.
5 Lysenko's Nemesis // Feb 16, 2016 at 2:56 pm
Councillor Andrea Reimer said. “But having the polluter pay has to be one of the upstream pressures. The cost of this shouldn’t be spread across all the taxpayers.”
Can we extend this to a few other areas? The mind is working.
6 Norman12 // Feb 20, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Let the Juice Hippy and his crew rationalize it away.
7 jenables // Feb 21, 2016 at 9:29 am
The thing I find ironic is that the city already charges business massive amounts of tax, but didn’t pick up garbage or provide recycling for them, yet they want to charge them for their customers using garbage cans on the street. They took away all the bus stop garbage cans, reduced residential garbage pickup by half and now they want to point the finger. Why not encourage people to bring mugs by showing the mountains of paper cups generated in an ad campaign? Some people would likely feel guilt on an appropriate level and alter their behaviour, but of course, the plan is to merely charge business extra. Greediest City Action Plan.