Thank you, Brian Low, for voicing your nostalgia for the good old days of reason and efficiency in garbage collection (St. Albert Gazette, Your Views, Jan. 9).
I just had a blue bag rejected for collection this week. This happened because sleepy me, thinking shredded paper was recyclable, didn’t realize that it must go in the organics bin.
This little slap on the wrist encouraged me to review my BeWasteWise brochure. I see that napkins and tissues are also to go into the organics bin, and I am glad that my other blue bags weren’t rejected on account of the used tissues in them.
Most of the used tissues would have come from my bathroom garbage containers, therein mingled with empty toilet paper tubes. Now, the brochure does not spell out where the toilet paper tubes should go, so I went online to find out. They are to go in the recycling bags. Of course. So I have more sorting to do than I previously knew of.
I don’t relish this duty one bit, separating crusty used facial tissues from anything else. On the other hand, I could have two labelled garbage containers in each bathroom and train all users to use them as directed. Or I could give up and say it is all just garbage.
Elaine Ramsay, St. Albert
