#city hall #garbage & recyclingOttawa garbage pick-up: We've got it pretty damn goodEarlier this week on Greater Ottawa, David Reevely asked: " Why do people feel so strongly about garbage? " Quick background: The City of Ottawa’s doing a series of public consultations about garbage and recycling collection , and one of the ideas that’s being tossed around is moving to bi-weekly garbage pick-up. ...
#garbage & recycling #stittsvillePhotos of junk in a field in StittsvilleThat’s really not the most compelling headline for a blog post, is it? Here are some pics I took on Friday while walking my dog in the big empty field near Abbot and Shea roads in Stittsville. How does this stuff get here? ...
#garbage & recycling #rantsRant of the Day: Reevely on green bins, maggots, garbage, landfillsLast week, David Reevely posted this on his Greater Ottawa blog: I can't help but wonder what we'd have been like if somebody tried to introduce curbside garbage pickup for the first time in 2010. “You want me to what? ...
#garbage & recyclingThe best way to remember whether it's blue box or black box weekMy new favourite Ottawa web site is OttawaTrash.ca . It’s ** ** a very simple but incredibly useful web site, created using data from the City of Ottawa’s website. The creators describe it as “born out of a need for a garbage scheduling app for Ottawa that doesn’t inspire acts of rage … using carefully hand-made iCal files for the city’s trash schedules”. ...
#garbage & recyclingBelieve it or not, there's a new green bin cleaning service in OttawaThe other day on OttawaStart’s Twitter feed , I linked to BINAces Inc. , a new business in Ottawa that specializes in cleaning green bins. It’s been interesting to see the ecosystem (pardon the pun) of businesses that have popped up to support the green bin. ...
#garbage & recycling #rantsRant of the Day: Ottawa's green bin programAndrea has a good rant on composting, over on her Peek Inside The Fishbowl blog . She’s claimed the title of “compost queen of Westboro”, and takes on some of the negative comments so far about Ottawa’s new green bin program. ...
#garbage & recyclingPhoto of the day: IgnoranceHere’s a link to a picture from Ottawa photographer Andrew Knapp titled Ignorance . It’s a mosaic of found items from Knapp’s daily walk: “My daily walk on this trail consists of passing by all of this. This is only a fraction of what was within this ~200m span of trail. ...
#garbage & recyclingWorms & eggs for IndiaHere’s an email received today at OttawaStart via our feedback form . Is this for real, or is it spam? From: Colonel M. Shanker Rampal Subject: OttawaStart Feedback Message: Dear Sir, I am from India and making vermi-compost after my retirement from the Indian Army. ...