Recycle, Compost, Trash: How do you tell your guests?

[Rickrock]

I just found out that my one brother who lives out a bit where they don't have all of the city services has to pay a monthly bill to a private company for trash pick-up and that is for two rubbish cans. If he puts out extra cans they bill him for the extra ones.

I also remember talking to a co-worker who lived in the City of Cleveland and a few years ago when they started picking up recyclables and wanted everyone to participate they required everyone to put out recyclables every week or they could be fined. I haven't heard of them enforcing that though.

 

[rareboy]

While we're off topic at this point, the newest best thing in some Ontario municipalities is to require clear garbage bags in order to ensure that people are re-cycling. Households are allowed one opaque kitchen bin sized bag for personal garbage.

It has resulted in an immediate substantial decrease in the amount of garbage actually going into landfill.

 

[Kahaih]

While we're off topic at this point, the newest best thing in some Ontario municipalities is to require clear garbage bags in order to ensure that people are re-cycling. Households are allowed one opaque kitchen bin sized bag for personal garbage.

It has resulted in an immediate substantial decrease in the amount of garbage actually going into landfill.

A ragbag if it's in the lav, a skin bin if it's in the guestroom?

Might take a while to fill up.

 

[eastofeden]

Use humor to tell them....

Back in the Mid 80s ...I think it was a drought at the time and we were in the Santa Cruz Mountains at the home of a friend of my husbands and they have a sign in the bathroom that read YELLOW IS MELLOW...BROWN GOES DOWN...very clever...it made me smile..and I still remember it.....but most importantly I remembered not to flush when I took a piss after I read it...