City pickups to resume
Garbage pickup is to resume Monday. This piece says nothing about recycling or composting pickup.
Update: La Presse mentions all three pickups are resuming.
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Joey 12:53 on 2025-02-24 Permalink
I was going to chalk this up to CTV being, once again, fuzzy in their reporting, but I noticed that CBC and the Gazette are similarly vague. The city website only says “Waste collections will resume during the week of February 24.” I’m sure they use the term waste to include garbage, material for recycling and compost, but some prevision wouldn’t hurt. There was a a time, not too long ago, when even – especially? – vaguely written small-ticket items like this would inspire journalists to pick up the phone and seek clarification; now it’s de rigueur to just reproduce whatever social media post has gone out and pass it off as journalism.
Kate 13:00 on 2025-02-24 Permalink
People will just have to decide what makes sense. There’s still a ridge of snow as tall as I am between my sidewalk and the street. I normally put out my composting bin Monday night, but unless a miracle happens meantime, I’d have to climb the ridge and perch it on top. So, I think I’ll wait another week.
walkerp 14:01 on 2025-02-24 Permalink
I have a feeling the mandate is just pick up as much stuff as possible to get it off the streets so snow clearing can continue, which is why the city is vague about it. Though point taken about some journalist calling and getting a clarification.
I imagine they are feeling the pressure as we are going above zero for the next couple days then back into the deep-freeze. Not going to be fun if the sidewalk goat trails are all turned into ice!
Nicholas 14:30 on 2025-02-24 Permalink
On the city website they mention food waste and green waste as terms, and if you click on Français they say “Les collectes reprennent cette semaine” in plural and refer to collectes for everything on that page, including recycling and compost. So I think it’s just a translation that causes some confusion because a bunch of people up and down the chain sort of breezed through writing, and transcribing, this until Kate thought to ask the question.