Dear Editor,
I am completely gobsmacked regarding this new recycling program.
The consumer is yet again responsible for further sorting out different types of plastics for pick up every other week and cardboard required to be cut into a certain size and be dry for pick up?
Two different trucks for pick ups?
Refusal to pick up plastics if not properly sorted (this is the second week in a row that mine hasn’t been picked up).
Recycling needs to be outside on the curb between 5 and 7 a.m.?
When is enough, enough?
Who has the time for all of this?
How does this program benefit the citizens and the environment that is being paid by you and me, the taxpayer?
Who sat at the round-table meeting representing the citizens of Maple Ridge looking out for our best interest when making this decision?
We, the citizens, are tapped out and now we are forced to figure out this Rubik's cube each week?
It's too much!
It's the environment that is going to take the biggest hit.
Sadly, recycling will just become part of garbage day without thinking twice.
What doesn't fit in their garbage bags will be dumped in the parks/school’s garbage receptacles etc.
I, myself have gone from one garbage bag to 3 to 4 on garbage day.
Maple Ridge residents have prided themselves on doing their best to recycle, but this additional expectation on us has gone too far.
What exactly are we paying this company to do? If this new company wants the consumer to do the work for them, then maybe we should be looking for a new provider that will do the work.
This clearly was not a very well thought out plan.
Todd Oliver, Maple Ridge
