Waste Management

[Vojnik_Vahaj]

Compared to the way we do waste management here to places like Japan, South Korea, EU it's so archaic. Small steps here, I suppose, but we really need to pick things up. Instead of banning bread tags and straws, we need proper investment into infrastructure to minimize waste and maximize the reuse of any we do generate.

This is true for all of North America, but locally too. The fact this region has clung on to the goofy tiny blue box thing so many decades it's a good example. It's ridiculous to be doing that lol. The inefficiencies of running hundreds of diesel trucks every day of the week to pick up dirty margarine containers and crap, accelerating and braking every 30 feet for 1/4th a wheelbarrow of junk is an irony. We should have been using either larger wheely bin containers long ago, or better yet do it in a way it is done in many EU nations. Most neighbourhoods in cities will use a combination of wheeled bins, or a series of rather large communal bins for recyclables such as a few for different coloured glass and metals. Rubbish and organics have more direct collection, but it's still often combined in larger volumes. There's also quite often a broader system of deposit/returnable bottle use, similar to that in Quebec where regular drink containers can often also get returned.

Would be better if we just totally reformed and modernized the thing, though. We bury hundreds of millions of dollars worth of material and potential energy each year. All our politicians are seemingly too stupid to do anything about it though.

Yea, I genuinely don't understand how we don't have communal bins for waste management