Dear Editor:
Re: Bumpy Rollout for New Garbage Carts, Aug. 16 front-page story.
I couldn’t agree more with the naysayers of this new program for green waste and garbage.
Not only have we collected a bunch more plastic that now needs to go to the transfer station, but we are told we must live with what we have for a mandatory four-week period, as if we don’t know our own habits.
We now have a huge garbage bin we don’t need or have space for in our garage. We are told after this period we can exchange it but on the website there is little information beyond that. Nor is there easy information as to how we can actually receive another green bin.
You ask us to recycle and then you make it difficult; no wonder the District of North Vancouver is getting 4,000-plus calls. Let’s just hope that extra green waste actually makes it to the transfer station instead of dumping potential invasive species at more dead-ends.
Lastly, what makes even less sense is that we leave the lids unlocked on pickup day. Many people leave in the early a.m. when food scraps will be left in the bin – unlocked? Well, duh . . . this must be coming from some manager in a mighty high office.
Shirley McKell
North Vancouver
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