Tim the Enchanter has left a new comment on your post "Clear bags versus opaque...how obscure is the plan...":
A portion From the Ajax News May 8/2014
Ajax will be using the new incinerator as well so their council is doing the Clear Bag Boogie too.
The "reasoning" is the same used in Aurora - burning batteries and other recyclables will cause air quality issues.
However.
"Mirka Januszkiewicz, Durham Region’s director of waste management services, says a “comprehensive” staff report on the issue is coming to regional council. She also noted that clear bags are not a magical solution to preventing hazardous items from reaching the incinerator -- or for increasing Durham’s waste-diversion rate. She says “education is the best safeguard” and that even in a clear garbage bag, a waste disposal driver will not be able to distinguish a battery, for example."
Exactly.
How hard is it to hide a few household batteries?
And why weren't those batteries disposed of correctly?
Because we all know how to do that - right?
I'm not sure who's been mixing up this "clear bags will save the environment" Kool-Aid but councils near and far have been drinking it.
Of course there are the privacy issues but there seems to be a workaround there.
So you stop buying green bags and buy clear bags.
What's the big deal?
Nothing.
Much.
Other than I don't appreciate the fact that my own town council has apparently given up on recycling education and decided that good old-fashioned public shaming is just the ticket, as if picking up our garbage was a favour and not actually financed by the piles of cash that we leave on the Town Hall doorstep every year.
And I'm a tad miffed, though not the least bit surprised that they've found a handy consultant, who for only $45000 will inform us all of the subtle, yet distinct difference between green (bad) and clear(good) bags.
That's almost a year's worth of Hillary House financing isn't it?
Publish
Dele
Posted by Tim the Enchanter to Our Town and Its Business at 24 May 2014 19:56
Sunday, 25 May 2014
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Please do not refer to what we give to Hillary, Tim. Rather a fraction of the money spent on studying clear bags might have gotten Petch finished off so it could serve a useful purpose. Petch should not be suffering from a rotting foundation, cracked window frames and leaking roof for a very long time.
Scruff the clear bags. It was a bad idea, initiative, & I do not care whose it was, in the first place. Let it go.
Page 5 of the Agenda is now back up. The spelling of the medicinal plant is still incorrect. There is no ' h' in that word. Communications gaffe again.
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