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As the city accumulates garbage throughout the ongoing city workers' strike, we'll be accumulating photos. Torontoist's photographers are checking in on garbage and recycling bins around the city throughout the strike, an attempt to follow the tangible effects of the strike and complement our other coverage.
Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist.
WHERE: Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue.
WHEN: 8:53 a.m. today.
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I was considering going to Tap Phong on Spadina
but seeing the bin above and realising it's
Chinatown, I better wait until after the strike.
I wonder how many others have revised their
shopping or walks routine because of the strike.
Are the shop owners ditching their garbage here attempting to make a point? Or is this just "business as usual" in Chinatown?
It's a shame, but no one will be surprised by this mess on Spadina... time to clean up the act of EVERYONE in that neighbourhood.
Aren't people missing the point a bit? The piles of garbage around garbage bins indicate that people are actually trying to USE the bin.
It's regrettable, if not reprehensible that the city and the union have let it get to the point where they're overflowing.
This photo shows that some of the citizenry at least are trying to do the right thing.
Yes, people are trying to use the bins. This shows that it is an established norm to use these bins and not just toss your junk anywhere.
But what "citizen" is carrying around boxes full of garbage? What individual has a large, clear plastic bag full of restaurant refuse? These bins are not for businesses to dispose of their trash, even when they are being routinely emptied.
And finally, during the strike, the "right thing to do" is to take your garbage home and make less garbage. Plain and simple.
I don't doubt that there's some residential -- and possibly commercial -- garbage in that pile, but it doesn't look to me like those big clear bags were dumped there as is. They seem to be open at the top and tied to the green bin, as if they were hung there to receive people's street garbage that wouldn't fit in the overflowing bin. A valiant but fruitless attempt to contain the mess.
All those bags on the other side, on the other hand...
Are these people "trying to use the bins" unaware of the strike, blind to the heaps of garbage already present, or just lazy and stupid? Strike or no, throwing your garbage in a pile on the sidewalk is never "trying to do the right thing". It says they think the garbage is someone else's problem and they take no responsibility for their actions.
I think the signs that were originally posted on the public bins that said "out of service" means that you're not supposed to put garbage in them. It's a bit like pissing in a toilet that says 'out of service.' In any case, strike or no strike, no household or business is supposed to use the public bins for household or business garbage.
Gosh people. Ever heard of reduce-reuse-recycle? Has the strike not gotten this through your dense, unadaptable heads?
I agree. It's amazing that everyone's reaction is "Oh my god, those damn city workers" not "Oh my god, look how much goddamn garbage we produce."
I would suggest an annual "No Garbage Collection Week" to remind us how disgusting we are, but it doesn't seem like anyone would actually clue in anyway. Sigh.
I agree that people should be conscious of how much garbage we produce. However, some of the responsibilty falls on businesses, and how they package things.