something is rotten in the city of london
I watched the garbage men collect the recycling bins from outside our building today. well, recycling men, really. or to be precise, recycling man and standing around man. I would not have been pleased if I were the recycling man, that is for sure.
anyway they came by in their truck today and collected the paper recycling and the plastic/glass recycling. now the problem for these two waste management individuals is that I am wise to their game. I saw them dump both paper and plastic/glass into the same truck. good thing I wasn't reading my school notes!
needless to say, I immediately investigated the situation, and I see two possible explanations: first, it is possible that these men were operating some manner of split-body truck. for instance, Heil Environmental Co. offers its flagship RapidRail truck in a one-pass co-collector model featuring on the fly body compartment selection and improved cordaflex loader harness. but I looked pretty carefully at the truck today, and it did not appear to be a split-body vehicle.
this leaves possible explanation number two: co-mingled collection. by way of example, the city of raleigh, NC sometimes collects multiple waste products simultaneously and then sorts at the depot. raleigh's claims to the contrary, this seems highly innefficient; surely the great municipality of london is one step ahead of raleigh in this regard.
if this second scenario does prove to be the case, perhaps a call is in order to a comptroller or deputy mayor or someone to let them know about recent advances in segregated single-stream trash collection. I could send them Heil's website, which was after all most informative.
incidentally, it was a region of halton truck. the city of london seems to operate its own division of waste management, so I really do not understand why we had a halton truck.
7 comments:
1) i can't believe that you would choose to watch the garbage get collected and then read about garbage collection over studying.
2) you are going to fail out of school and then become one of those old ladies who sit on the porch and watch the neighbourhood all day and spread gossip and get people into trouble.
Simon, you've outdone yourself.
Mila, Simon is providing a vital service to the people of Ontario. If the City of London's Waste Management division is indeed cutting corners in its collection processes, what other nefarious indignities is it perpetrating when not under the hawklike eye of Simon? The City of London has recently been quite vocal in expressing its concern about the purchase of the Green Lane landfill site just outside London by the City of Toronto . If London's councillors are not just NIMBYists, but also hypocrites - the mind boggles!
Simon, please continue your sterling work on behalf of all concerned citizens of our fair province. Also, if you could possibly snag me a pair of those cufflinks as you go about your metritorious civic business...?
mila maybe if you spent some time reading about waste management, you would realize what a fascinating industry it is.
thanks luke, I will continue to be vigilant with my neighbourhood watch duties.
simon, if i spent time reading about waste management, which by the way is sick, i wouldn't have time to read instyle and people.com.
okay, if you don't like waste management, here's an idea: why don't you read a book? when was the last time you cracked open a novel? 2006?
v funny simon. you should take your routine to yuk suks.
internet, do you see what I have to put up with?
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