No Place in the Bin - A Slightly Warped Post-Christmas Story
Now I'm not sure if they recycled in Palestine 2000 years ago. There was no room at the Inn for sure but 2000 years later sadly us conscientious tenants look week after week and there is still no room at in the Bins.
These 2 Containers Cannot Hold the Recycling of 100 families
30% of Londoners live in aparments or condominiums. That would work out to about 120,000 men, women and children. A building with 100 units gets just 2 bins for recycling from the City: one for containers and one for paper and other materials. They are usually filled two days after they pick up day. That means most recyclable materials goes down the chutes and into the garbage trucks.
Who is to blame for this: tenants, landlords and the City. Tenants need to demand that landlords purchase more of the $110 bins which are used by apartment buildings for recycling. That's a cost that can easily be put in our yearly increase mandated by the Province. It's one dollar a tenant.
The City on the other hand pays no attention to tenants. We are the second class of taxpayers in London. Our property taxes are in our rent each month and. Most are in the $700 to $900 a year range. They are proportional to homeowners. Do homeowners really believe that landlords pay the property taxes out of the goodness of their hearts without passing the cost to tenants. That would be bad business and just plain dumb as tenants use City services.
The Deparment heads and Councillors don't see the 30% of Londoners who live in apartments and condos as real citizens. Therefore why should they bother trying to get them to recycle. Funny thing is in our building there are too many recyclers for the two measly bins so most tenants give up separating our waste only to find no place in the bins.
Now I'm not sure if they recycled in Palestine 2000 years ago. There was no room at the Inn for sure but 2000 years later sadly us conscientious tenants look week after week and there is still no room at in the Bins.
