#blue bin

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Human skeleton puzzle poster found in a blue bin.

[walrusmagazine]

Illustration by Ricky Leung (rickyleungart.com).

Why Recycling Doesn't Work

You may use the blue bin, but it doesn’t mean you’re helping the environment

Almost two-thirds of Canada’s waste is produced by the industrial, commercial, institutional, and construction-and-demolition sectors—in everything from factories to office buildings—which are serviced by private waste haulers. Unless they can make a profit selling recyclables, which depends on market prices at the time of sale, there’s little incentive for these haulers to recycle. All of this means that you can put your takeout containers and shredded paper into the office recycling bin, but the company that takes it away is under no legal obligation to recycle it. In Toronto, for example, 72 percent of waste material from apartment and condo buildings goes straight to a landfill.

Read more at at thewalrus.ca.

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Buying Boobles and Finding Bob: Adventures in Bureaucracy

Buying Boobles and Finding Bob: Adventures in Bureaucracy

There is a lady sitting alone in a room with no windows, looking at an old telephone, waiting for someone to call. She grants booble permits, and you are trying to buy a booble. But the secretary lost her number, and nobody talks to her at lunch, so nobody knows what she does. She gives the booble permits! And people need boobles! (more…)

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Finding Bob

Perhaps you’ve found yourself living in a building that doesn’t offer recycling service.  Are you suppsoed to have it?  You could navigate the labyrinth of bureaucracy all day long and not find any reliable answers.  Do we live in a Kafka novel?  It turns out, we do not.  But I didn’t know that for sure, until I found Bob.  Continue reading

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What’s in your blue recycling bin?

New Post has been published on http://www.canindia.com/whats-in-your-blue-recycling-bin/

What’s in your blue recycling bin?

Sabrina Almeida Do you give much thought to what you put in your recycling bin? If not, chances are plenty of wrong items will end up in your blue cart. What’s troubling is that you’re not the only one or one of the few doing this… and that’s costing the recycling program millions of dolla...

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Blue Storage Bins

Blue Bins: 14, 15 Total Bins/Boxes: 1-15