Recycling Issues

[tomh009]

I think it’s a good move. All of the potential complaints an individual household might have about biweekly service (insufficient storage space; odours; attracting vermin) can be mitigated through greater use of the blue bin. And  four-bag limit is extremely generous. I wonder when it will drop to two.

I wonder also if we’ll find out that larger green bins are required (other jurisdictions use larger bins than ours).

The odours are really a non-issue once you start fully using the green bin.  We would often skip a week or two of garbage pickup (when we lived in a house), but we would always have the green bin out.

I think the current size works easily for most families, but larger families that throw out more food might need a larger one.  We have two people and a cat (the latter generates more green bin content than a person because of kitty litter) and our bin would almost always be well less than half full.