Time to refuse refuse?
Ah, Canada, cool, refreshing, pine scented, pristine… until you get to the city of Toronto. City Council has been talking for some time about the horrible state public waste collection bins. The containers are supposed to be managed by Astral Out-of-Home and which seem to be perpetually vandalized, otherwise broken, disgustingly dirty and/or under-serviced and overflowing with refuse. They are thinking about investigating the state of Toronto’s alleged 10,340 bins, about1000 of which are out of service or completely disappeared. This problem is like a permanent plague on the city, as trash overflows out of the city-issued receptacles and onto the sidewalk. It’s worse in some areas, it contributes to the feeling of an anti-Canadian city. It’s a problem apparently for the mayor, who admitted that he doesn’t want to get his hands close to the bins, so he sometimes avoids using them altogether and takes his rubbish home instead. Often these cans will bunch up at the opening, as items get hooked on the flap. From here, people start piling garbage in the hole that never drops in properly, leading to an overflow. What can often make this disgusting-ness is that the debris pile on the sidewalk can be a mix of garbage and recycling.
A councilman complained, “as a daily walker and jogger, I often notice vandalized public waste bins on sidewalks that are either damaged or defaced, with the bin doors swinging open or the frames vandalized with graffiti.” Per the Toronto Star, the company is tasked with inspecting and washing the bins once or twice a week, depending on where they’re located, and fix any broken ones within two days. “Time to put these ridiculous contraptions out of their misery and have the city put simple bins in place — forget the overly complicated fiddling with this contracting out to an incompetent private company.” Astral and the city made a deal in 2007 that gave them the right to install and take care of 26,000 pieces of street furniture over 20 years. Astral got certain ad rights and the city got a windfall of $428 million in the deal. This seems like a good time as well to find out what happened to all those high-tech automated public toilets Toronto was supposed to get.
Funny garbage
What do you call a conversation between two garbage cans?
Trash Talk.
What has four wheels and flies?
Garbage Truck, Eh!
How rich are the garbage companies?
Filthy
What’s the difference between garbage and a home gym’s weights during the COVID quarantine?
The garbage gets picked up once a week.
June 14th Birthdays
1969 – Steffi Graf, 1905 – Margaret Burke, 1995 – Lucy Hale, 1967 – Wendy Lian Williams
1946 – Donald Trump 1994 – Ryan McCartan, 1989 – Kevin McHale, 1932 – Sheriff Joe Arpaio