By Mike Bryan, Ottawa Citizen Letter to the Editor, June 26, 2014
The City of Ottawa’s trendy green bin program was hurriedly imposed on us
residents in 2010. But it was poorly thought out and the underlying cost/benefit
economics were — and remain — weak at best. Now our neighbourhood raccoons,
clever and determined little devils that they are, have done the inevitable:
figured out how to knock locked bins over, and have the impact spring the poorly
designed top locks open. I am ready to stop using my green bin. It’s bad enough
with the stinking mess the garbage collectors leave behind they never completely
empty bins and the flies, maggots and other revolting assaults on the senses.
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