Greater Victoria has been on two week pickups since before I moved here (10yrs).
They've been on the separate Food Waste + Garbage bins for 5 years.

I recycle absolutely everything possible, so my garbage bin is only ever about half full in those two weeks.


I've never really had an issue.

Oh fuck off you cheap shit, a box of 125 compostable liners is like $5 at Costco and lasts me a year

The whole idea is to reduce waste going into the landfills so they don't fill them up as fast.
You bitch about $5 compostable liners, how would you like to pay another $200 a year on your property tax to pay for a new landfill instead?

My garburator is my compost bin. :D

You are so fucking lazy and selfish. Because the city won't babysit you, you can't just man up and be a decent human being and give a shit about how your actions affect your surroundings?

If your bin is full days before pick up, then most likely you're just throwing whatever you can in your garbage.

It's time to start learning separate your garbage. We have 6 people in our household, 4 with the landlord, 2 as the tenant and our garbage bin is completely full on pick up days.

Garbage consists of tissues, small paper/plastic stuff, etc. Basically anything that is small enough to not really be able to recycle. I can't imagine you'd have THAT much garbage before the pick up day.

Try having 3 kids and two of them still use diapers. That alone is a tone of garbage.

If the city is determine to eliminate waste then they should be providing the tools and also lower the cost for us. Example look at most food courts now, after you finish you just bring the tray to the cleaning station and they people sort out the garbage for you. Before that they actually have different bins for different items and most people just dump all the stuff into the garbage. If you want people to do something make it easy and cost effective for them.

You think it's hard to buy a years supply of compostable bags at the grocery store for 25 bucks and empty your plates into it? Everyone else in here can do it, why can't you? Are you that useless?

you need somone to chew the food for you?

the compostable bags from costco are $5 for 40-50 wax lined, paper bags.

If the city provided you a plastic bucket to keep the green waste in, i'm sure you'd be bitching about the smell/cleaning the bucket and would either buy bags, or continue using plastic bags like all the fobs. So outside of coming into your kitchen and sorting it out for you, i think you're SOL bud..

In our old building it was honestly despicable the fucking morons who would continue to put plastic bags into the recyclables. It got to the point where the building manager obviously realized it was just fobs doing it so she made massive signs with a big X through plastic bags because basic words were not working.. and still.. people didnt get it.

the problem is in a high rise, the city will stop picking up green waste all together if this is a constant problem. so the fucking morons who cant even understand pictures a child could figure out are ruining it for everyone else. It was lucky i never caught somone dumping a plastic bag in there because they would have gotten an ear full.

Personally, I'm okay with that. As a married couple without kids, I really don't mind paying a bit more if that means I can continue my slack way of life of killing the environment, slowly. :D

Burnaby here as well, 4 in my house, 2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 baby and we haven't run into any issues as it's pretty simple. I'm just more curious how the summer months are going to go when I have more grass/branches to throw in my green bin.

You lucky bastards that are living in a house... at least you have the option of ordering a bigger garbage bin.

I'm stuck in my shxtty condo, and you wouldn't believe how much shxt and junk people produce... And then when the bins are full, these gross fxxks just leave their shxt, recyclables, and composts all over the place... I've already complained to the property management corp before, and we got an extra compost bin. But now, even that generally gets full before compost collection day...

Fxxking pisses me off...

well...goddamn

TIL that biweekly really IS ambiguous

i should look into getting that paycheque twice a week


i bitched about it when i lived in Van...eventually cleaning the compost bin just became the norm and i stopped giving a shit
i've never used biodegradeable liners on my bins...just take a bunch of flyers or newspapers and use that shit to line the compost bin

My family of 4, with one in diapers, shares a bin with our landlord and her family. We switched to bi-weekly recently. I am having to take bags to work, stuff them in the neighbour's bin (we have permission), or do a dump run if it gets bad. I've had cardboard rejected because I didn't flatten it all: I couldn't fit it all in the yellow bag so I put the rest of the flattened boxes in a cardboard box. I've had bottle collectors rummage through my blue bin and I get in shit for my recycling being all over the street. When I lived in Nova Scotia, they had garbage inspectors, who would go through your bags to make sure there were no recyclables in the garbage or vise versa and you would receive penalties and fines if caught.

Confirmed that this 125 liners are not in stock at Costco Willington

Thanks I was just looking for an answer about biodegradable bags, since they're technically not allowed.

I find that with grass clippings put them in the organic bin and bundling branches (tie with rope) they have always been taken away.

renters are a nightmare unless you get on them right away about sorting out there garbage. I have pulled shit out and put it back on there door step and asked them them to sort there stuff out. This was after getting couple warnings from the city regarding stuff in the wrong bin.

Weird question. But is it bad to just dump a lot of toilet paper into the toilet and flush?

When I get sick and have a runny nose, I go through a lot of TP. (Not tissue, cause TP is cheaper). The whole can is literally full of TP wads... Sometimes I would just dump some of it in the toilet and flush.

I never really thought of it until now. Would it have been better to put it in the biodegradable bin?

this, i downgraded to the small bin in coquitlam for garbage, saves spaces outside my house and money on my utilities

we normally have 2 safeway bags of garbage every two weeks

the rest is all green waste or recycling.

you can recycle styrofoam containers and the trays your meat comes on, just wash them and put them in the bin with your aluminum cans that you take in for money

you'd be surprised at what can be recycle now a days

the return it place is best, no excuses unless you're just a lazy piece of shit

Fuck some of you are useless and cheap.

get your kids to do this instead of buying them toys. free newspapers come to the door even in condos

https://www.google.ca/search?q=how+t...w=1366&bih=638

Been composting for over 40 years as it makes amazing soil for growing your own veggies.

The only thing I'm wondering is how old are you? 60's at least?

Totally agree though, news paper, napkins/paper towels, pizza boxes, paper take out boxes that are not wax lined, paper bags from grocery stores. I've got an endless supply of this crap to fill my bins and or throw the food into before throwing it into the bin.

ouch! no had chores at a young age. No fancy compost bucket either

My mom, who is 76, lives in an assisted living facility and each unit has a compost bucket that they leave outside their door every night. So dont complain about having to do a bit of extra work sorting your recycling.

only difference from composting is back then it was just fruit and veggie scraps.

Upgrading your garbage bin from a smaller size to extra large is super cheap.. I did it myself

Also, I always have a crap ton of plastic bags in my house.. I use it to carry/hold my compost in my house. When I dump my garbage out. I empty the bag into the compost bin and throw the plastic into the garbage.. Its really not that hard lol

I bought bags from home depot clearly marked, for the explicit purpose of using for a green bin. Then City of Richmond refuses to collect my green bin because i'm using the biodegradable bags.. :@

Different service providers have different rules with regard to things such as being able to use bio bags or not so make sure to check before using them. I think COV residents are also unable to use the bags.

My good friend who works for Richmond water works (sewage treatment) would punch you in the face if he could. So maybe that answers your question