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New Rubbish Bins?
With the Eucan project firmly and fully binned and with council undergoing a long process in choosing new street furniture, the last thing I expected to see while walking around Little Italy was a new trash can. But there is was: about waist high, blue, and save for some 'City of Toronto' logos announcing who had put it there, completely ad free.
Of course in a city that has rolled out the green-bin programme to all households, it's a shame that they couldn't figure out how to make a section for people to deposit biowaste seperately, but I suppose you take what you can get.
Does anybody know anything about these?
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I was in Guelph Friday night, and while at the theatre, was really heartened to see a bin with triple compartments, including one for food waste and serviettes, etc. I can't see they shouldn't be implemented in Toronto as well.
Kinda sad this city can be so slow on the uptake with these things ... with such a large population, any change we make would be a huge impact.
So long as they get it right before the generation-long street furniture contract gets settled, it should all be okay though.
The new waste receptacle that you have shown in your picture is called The Phoenix, and is produced by Classic Displays in Mississauga. The Phoenix is a sustainable product made with recycled plastic, which is 100% recyclable once its lifecycle has been completed. The Phoenix was designed with multi-stream capabilities, and is not restricted to any sort of waste. If the city wanted to create a separate section for bio-waste, they could easily affix two units together. This would create a four-stream system which would allow for waste, recyclables, bio-waste, and newspapers.
Thank you
Sandy