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Originally Posted by mic67
If a house, either reg. or from time to time has more than 1 bag of rubbish, what to do?
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The city will accept a second garbage bag as long as it's clear to collectors can see if it contains recyclable or compostable materials.
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Originally Posted by mic67
WTF you got more garbage than the 1 bag per address, that does not change.
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Nonsense. I live in a family of four with two cats and a hamster, and we produce about a grocery bag of garbage per week. I can't even imagine how it would be possible to produce more than a garbage bag in a week, assuming you pay a reasonable amount of attention to separating recycling and compostables.
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Originally Posted by mic67
Like I said Hamiltonians like their garbage, enough to keep it around, on their streets, in their front yards and in their public receptacles.
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Garden variety exceptionalism. Hamiltonians are not materially different from people anywhere else on earth - we're certainly not subject to special 'Hamilton only' rules of human behaviour.
When City Council was considering its one-bag (er, make that two-bag) policy, I recommended simply cutting garbage collection to once every two weeks - with recycling and green bin collection still coming every week. Other municipalities that have done this have had
remarkable success at diverting waste without having to impose punitive sanctions.