01-14-2016, 09:44 AM
(01-14-2016, 01:22 AM)tomh009 Wrote: 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.
This has largely been my experience. I can't think of anything I throw out that produces odours that isn't acceptable in the green bin.
The surveys that the Region did last year show that very few families will be inconvenienced by these changes in even a minor way. Even when the bag limit is eventually reduced to two biweekly, most won't even have to change their behaviour, and for those who will have to, I think the alternatives are not difficult.