As Toronto scrambles to reduce the amount of garbage being produced, you can only shake your head to learn that people living in the city’s 5,100 multi-family dwellings (apartments, townhomes, condos, etc.) are only recycling 13% of their garbage. Can you imagine how many trucks they could take off the road going to landfill sites in Michigan if the recycling rates in those buildings was increased to 50%. As much as you can encourage people to recycle, garbage is becoming such an important, expensive and big issue, it may not be long before we see mandatory recycling and people fined for not doing enough.
June 29, 2006 at 10:20 am
I live in a downtown apartment the size of a match box, that doesn’t even have room for normal sized furniture, far less for recycling bins. The garage, where we dump our garbage, is a Rat’s idea of Paradise.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if apartments in Toronto were 1300 square feet and not 500 square feet (like they are in the USA) and had sanitation provisions higher than that of the average Brazilian Favela?
And if you have the time to run around trying to figure out who put the bag of garbage in the festering pile of stuff in that garage of ours, I would say you are in serious need of meaningful work – come to my house and I’ll give you a trash bag and you can pick up the garbage you and your children have strewn broadcast over our entire neighbourhood. No, it doesn’t vanish from Planet Earth when it leaves your daughter’s hand!
July 5, 2006 at 2:00 pm
It looks like a great wine bar
April 8, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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