Green bins invade Ottawa
Much ado has been made about San Francisco's new composting program. Up north, Ottawa residents will soon be using new green bins of their own.
By now, you may have heard that this week (yesterday, to be exact) San Francisco initiated a mandatory composting program that requires every residence and business in the city to use a third “green” bin for organic waste alongside existing bins for trash and recyclables. Read more about San Francisco’s composting program in a post I wrote back in July and in this recent New York Times Green Inc. post that discusses the positive impact that the program has already made.
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Comments
City councilors gone bad.
What a waste of time and money. Everything we've worked hard to build in the last 60 years will be eventually destroyed by tree huggers.
If we used your line of thinking 60 years ago we would be like some country in Africa right now, scratching out a living from dust.
what a complete waste of time and money. Recycling is NOT self sustaining, it takes millions of dollars from the Government to make it work. Where do you think that money comes from, dough heads ?
Separate your garbage like good little cattle, good, good. Feel good about yourself ? Good, good.
Fools.
I live in York Region and we've had this program over a year.
Good god man, check your spelling! It isn't Chattanooga or something where you can get away with it. You got it a couple times though. This is why Americans get made fun of.
Apologies for the typo in the headline....your city's proud name has been restored to its rightful spelling!
The team at MNN
It's Ottawa with an A
It's great to see more cities take on composting. What's unique about SF (and Seattle, and perhaps other cities) is that composting is mandatory, not optional. SF residents have had composting bins for a long time-- at least 10 years, I think. Now they just won't have a choice.
