Park Ex residents push for trash cleanup
I’ve seen rumbles about this for weeks on social media, but finally CBC is covering the problem of trash piling up in Park Ex. The problem seems to have started after garbage pickup went down to once a week, but the borough is leaning more on fines than on promises to return to twice‑weekly pickups.
Em 16:06 on 2022-08-01 Permalink
I thought trash pickup had gone down to once a week pretty much everywhere in the city. Not sure why that would be a bigger problem in Park Ex than elsewhere.
dhomas 16:20 on 2022-08-01 Permalink
So, I just checked Info-Collectes for one of the places mentioned in the article, around de Liège and Wiseman. Buildings with 9 or more apartments get garbage pickup bi-weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays. Smaller building get it only weekly on Fridays only. Recycling is on Wednesdays. Compost is on Tuesdays. That’s 3 to 4 pickups per week.
As much as I like to complain when things don’t get done properly by the city, I kinda think people never adjusted to the change in schedule in 2018. They added compost pickup, so they removed one garbage pickup. Makes sense to me!
However, according to the article “trash bags tend to overflow in the neighbourhood because recycling and composting aren’t very popular”. This here is the problem. My garbage has been nearly odorless since they started compost pickup in my neighbourhood. The people who don’t yet separate their compost around me still have very stinky garbage, especially in the summer. This tends to attract raccoons and even cats (the same people tend to not use bins, and leave black garbage bags on the curb).
Also, one of the photos are obviously from a business which should have a container to put their recycling/garbage in. Another photo seems to be the result of an eviction or abandoned apartment being emptied after moving day. There is NO WAY a duplex generates that kind of garbage in only one week. The address is 8188 Wiseman, and it looks like it’s always been pretty messy around there: https://goo.gl/maps/Yn7Nr1WSPjkq8YDb8
If the folks in Park Ex don’t properly utilise their city services by separating their refuse properly, maybe fines are the only way to get them to start putting stuff out on the appropriate days. Language is sometimes an issue, but the fines/warnings will usually go to the landlords. The landlords should then communicate to the tenants when and how to put out the trash, or risk getting fined. (I know from experience as my tenant tends to do the same thing, until I tell him to shape up every couple of months).
MtlWeb 10:30 on 2022-08-02 Permalink
Em – trash is picked up every 2 weeks in St. Laurent; compost/recycling weekly.