Garbage collection day: My garbage can disappeared! Several checks around the neighbourhood reveal it is indeed gone.
Call City Hall: receptionist tells me the garbage truck took it and hers, too. Really?
I did learn from a letter to editor that used tissues should go in organics, not brown can, and mine – oops! – was laden with tissues from home cold sufferers. But how about at least a notice?
Call city utilities: Garbage trucks can’t always correctly size cans to toss up into truck, so yes, it was probably taken. (Should not plastic cans be recycled? No – it was not pre-washed, I remember.)
Why no note left? “No time for driver to leave me a note or we would need seven-day garbage pickup.” (Wow, they must lose many cans daily!) “Expect a replacement at the end of my driveway in one to two weeks, or call back.” I guess that taking it 20 feet to my house may mean seven-day city workers, too.
While I’m on the topic, would it now make more sense to have now much smaller blue recycle bags collected every second week, and more pungent, now fuller brown cans collected every week, and green bins in winter every month?
Wait! One can upsize their brown cans to accommodate the extra now no-no recyclables for an additional monthly fee. But, only one upsize allowed, or a service charge follows!
Would putting a new collection schedule to a discussion and vote mean that councillors would have to work a seven-day week, which we cannot afford with the $300-million, 10-year capital deficit?
Overall, gotta love St. Albert. Looking forward to a clean new brown can – maybe.
Judy Loutit, St. Albert
