Dear Editor,
I applaud city council for taking the decision to reduce garbage collection to a bi-weekly schedule.
And I am especially delighted that there will be carts of different sizes, with fees based on cart size.
Of course, people who produce excessive quantities of garbage will dislike the change, but perhaps it will teach them that most of what they throw out needn’t have been brought home in the first place.
I see a display of it every week. The garbage strewn over the streets after the scavengers have pried open the cans is largely composed of unrecyclable packaging and styrofoam take-out food containers.
Why can’t styrofoam containers be abolished? Why not serve take-out food in reusable containers which the customer purchases the first time and brings back to use the next time?
Or make the containers out of something edible or out of something organic, which can end up in the green cart?
If we really put our minds to it, we needn’t roll out the garbage can more than once every month or two.
Sabine Eiche
Richmond
