Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 273

entheosfog · #**5441** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 2:34 AM**

I'm really not diggin' the floral banners covering the VAG. Why is this beautiful heritage building, one of the few in the area, covered up when there's other hideous buildings (like you know who!) that could get this treatment. Maybe I just hate the print, I dunno.

GeeCee · #**5442** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 3:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by entheosfog

I'm really not diggin' the floral banners covering the VAG. Why is this beautiful heritage building, one of the few in the area, covered up when there's other hideous buildings (like you know who!) that could get this treatment. Maybe I just hate the print, I dunno.

I have no Sears what building you are talking about..

trofirhen · #**5443** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by entheosfog

I'm really not diggin' the floral banners covering the VAG. Why is this beautiful heritage building, one of the few in the area, covered up when there's other hideous buildings (like you know who!) that could get this treatment. Maybe I just hate the print, I dunno.

This is but one more grain of sand in that mysterious mountain called the Irony of Life.

twoNeurons · #**5444** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

and these are being seen all over downtown - my friend says they are classy - lol

Temporary extra garbage containers for the O-lympics?

AlexYVR · #**5445** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by twoNeurons

Temporary extra garbage containers for the O-lympics?

It's a great idea to have plastic bags. In Sydney they just removed all the garbage containers (bomb worries) and they still haven't replaced them 10 years later - there's nowhere to throw your trash in the city.

WarrenC12 · #**5446** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by AlexYVR

It's a great idea to have plastic bags. In Sydney they just removed all the garbage containers (bomb worries) and they still haven't replaced them 10 years later - there's nowhere to throw your trash in the city.

If you check the green garbage bags in similar rings at the new streetcar station I think that's a "preview" what we're going to see downtown.

SpongeG · #**5447** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 9:58 PM**

i was thinking they were for tieing up the street kids so they look a little more orderly

nova9 · #**5448** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 11:16 PM**

I like them. It's just so much more functional because you get to use the full volume of a garbage bag instead of the our pretty cans that are always full.

Paris uses these mostly but I do think they triple bag them. In Vancouver, I think we're gonna need to use 5 bags so people don't rip them.

vancityrox · #**5449** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 11:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by nova9

I like them. It's just so much more functional because you get to use the full volume of a garbage bag instead of the our pretty cans that are always full.

Paris uses these mostly but I do think they triple bag them. In Vancouver, I think we're gonna need to use 5 bags so people don't rip them.

This is awesome! Now i can see if there is cans to collect!

Gotta pay the rent!

Yume-sama · #**5450** Posted **Jan 22, 2010, 11:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by vancityrox

This is awesome! Now i can see if there is cans to collect!

Gotta pay the rent!

You've got to admire how Vancouver gets around paying people to sort garbage once it comes in.

djh · #**5451** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 2:12 AM**

If we get a rain downpour, won't those bag start collecting rainwater?

Waders · #**5452** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 5:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by twoNeurons

Temporary extra garbage containers for the O-lympics?

I believe they are clear plastic bag holder intended for collecting recyclable items like aluminium can, glass bottle, newspaper etc, not garbage. The city first installed them last year around the downtown area during one of public event to demonstrate that Vancouver is a green city. However I saw a lot of people just dumped all sort of garbage into them even though there was big 'Recycle' sign on the metal pole.

SpongeG · #**5453** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 5:42 AM**

it all gets sorted at the dump anyway recyclables are taken out etc

Waders · #**5454** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 5:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

it all gets sorted at the dump anyway recyclables are taken out etc

I don't think the garbage sorters wouldn be too happy with the extra workload.

WhipperSnapper · #**5455** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 6:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by twoNeurons
Temporary extra garbage containers for the O-lympics?

They could very well be replacement garbage containers for the O-lympics. These clear bag holders are more bomb proof than the bin pictured behind the pole.

flight_from_kamakura · #**5456** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 6:13 AM**

aren't they removing all the regular enclosed receptacles? these might be the only trash containers?

trofirhen · #**5457** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 11:53 AM**

In Paris they replaced all the plastic garbage cans with translucent plastic bags and have been using them ever since 9/11.
Everybody seems used to it; no big deal.

Locked In · #**5458** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 8:25 PM**

At the Central Library. My photo, January 23:

Yume-sama · #**5459** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 8:26 PM**

It would have been more witty if the letters hung over the end of the bars behind them.

entheosfog · #**5460** Posted **Jan 23, 2010, 9:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

In Paris they replaced all the plastic garbage cans with translucent plastic bags and have been using them ever since 9/11.
Everybody seems used to it; no big deal.

They have these on Commercial Drive now, too so it's not just a downtown thing apparently.