Even crooks are pausing business for Covid-19
Organized crime is pausing its activities around Montreal, according to La Presse’s Daniel Renaud, who notes that cocaine is getting more expensive because nobody is moving it.
Recycling firms are asking the public not to put used tissues, masks, gloves and so forth into the recycling (or compost) but straight into the garbage.
The NHL draft was supposed to take place in June at the Bell Centre, but it has been postponed.
Kevin 22:42 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
That’s weird. The city of Montreal specifically says you can compost used tissues. https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=7418,142596054&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Michael Black 23:42 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
I don’t think tissues were ever supposed to go in recycling.
But this sounds like fear of germs, like fear of handling money, so the compost is an add on. And chanveof rules by the companies that collect it, rather than a decision further up the chain.
Blork 10:33 on 2020-03-26 Permalink
@Kevin, not weird. That page you link to is their general pre-Covid19 page. The current request is due to those tissues now being laden with coronaviruses, and the people handling the compost are understandably worried about that.
Kevin 11:04 on 2020-03-26 Permalink
Blork
Sorry, I wasn’t clear.
The weirdness was this line from the article directly contradicting the usual policy: <>
I’m thinking someone overreached and didn’t verify.
Blork 11:17 on 2020-03-26 Permalink
Oh right. I assume you mean this line: Même en temps normal, celles-ci ne devraient pas être jetées au recyclage ni au bac à compost.
I assume that’s the writer’s mistake.
Kevin 12:39 on 2020-03-26 Permalink
Blork
Yeah, that’s the line. I put it in, but it didn’t appear inside the brackets