No more bins along Lachine Canal
For its own inscrutable reasons, Parks Canada has removed all the trash cans along part of the Lachine Canal.
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Spi 09:37 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
It worked for metro platforms that’s as urban a setting as it gets so why couldn’t it work along the Canal?
Kate 09:46 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
Among other things, people are not usually picnicking on the metro platform or walking their dogs there.
Spi 09:56 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
Sure but there also aren’t nearly as many users passing through the canal park as the metro. Frankly this isn’t a problem that’s solved with more trash cans, user behaviour needs to change to an extent and just putting a sign doesn’t do much to help that.
I’d like to think there’s a more holistic approach to this beyond just removing trash bins.
Kate 10:13 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
In theory I’m fine with this, except we both know that a significant percentage of passersby will simply chuck stuff on the ground rather than either a) minimizing waste or b) packing it out.
MarcG 10:17 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
I don’t think we’re mature enough for this level of responsibility.
Ian 10:34 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
Sounds like a lot of greenwashing budget cuts to me.
steph 12:07 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
IIRC the loss of garbage cans in the metro was terror washing. “We removed the garbage cans because terrorists might hide bombs in them”.
IIRC the loss of garbage cans on certain city streets was a solution to overflowing garbage cans; No can, no overflow. Problem solved, pat on the back… a bunch of lazy bureaucratic goons.
Spi 13:35 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
the removal of platform level trash and recycling bins had nothing to do with “terrorism”, a cursory google search would have shown that. The STM at the time was claiming that trash was causing service delays and interruption because it would at time prevent metro doors from closing.
https://journalmetro.com/actualites/montreal/35446/finis-les-poubelles-et-les-bacs-de-recuperation-sur-les-quais-du-metro/
Kate 15:11 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
Spi, to be fair, I’ve seen it mentioned here and there that the platform bins were removed because of fear of bombs, but I also remember several pieces about the difficulties caused when papers blow into the tunnels and block drains. But that problem has largely been ended by daily papers ceasing to print.
The bomb idea may have been copied from bigger cities where terrorism has been a more pressing concern.
bob 21:00 on 2024-04-12 Permalink
Whatever bullshit reason they give, the real reason is to save the salaries of the people paid to empty the trash bins. For every three garbage bin emptiers fired you save enough to fund an entitled mediocrity’s sinecure. And, of course, one bin will remain on the Canal – the canal.
qatzelok 10:33 on 2024-04-13 Permalink
Biking along bike paths in suburbia, there are zones where there are hundreds of cute little bags of dog-crap attached to tree branches. I doubt that the squirrels are doing this, so it’s probably because of lack of garbage cans that dog-owners are doing this and hoping that “Mother Nature” takes cae of it.
Greenwashing, as Ian says… With very brown results.
carswell 09:07 on 2024-04-16 Permalink
Was hoping to check out the situation for myself yesterday but clients and the weather kept me housebound. Early reports (on Agora Montréal, for example) are complaining about the number of cigarette butts suddenly littering the ground and about the many bags of dog excrement left attached to urban furniture; the former is an ecological hazard and the latter a public health hazard. Expecting the bins to be reinstalled before the summer is out.
Wondering, however, whether the canal mightn’t be a good candidate for automated waste pickup. Until they were removed, almost all the receptacles were alongside the bike path, meaning they were easy to access. Plus, electric scooters excepted (alas), there are no motorized or parked vehicles on the path, no curbs or parking meters to get in the way. Sounds like an ideal scenario for a slow-moving, waste-bin-dumping robot.