ShonTron
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IIRC the city will be launching a pilot project for Green Bins in multi-unit apartments and condos within the next year... I'm looking forward to it.
In the meantime though, if you live in a condo, why don't you work with your condo board to acquire several composters?
That's excellent.
Using plastic bags for garbage isn't the best option either. Ideally, we would stop using plastic bags to go to the grocery store, and yes, we would be without grocery bags for garbage use, but there are alternatives such as biodegradable plastic bags that you can purchase for garbage. In a perfect world, stores would foot the cost for biodegradable bags, and then the whole fabric/recycled plastic enviro-bag would not even be needed any more. There are cons to biodegradable plastic, but finding a solution to those is just like finding the solution to the non-biodegradable plastic bags that are causing problems like the ones we're talking about in this thread.
That would be an ideal solution, even if the additional cost was factored into the price of my shopping. This should be the way government should implement it. While I think switching bags is a great idea, you've got to make it easy enough for people to adapt, people like myself who get off the bus (no car trunk to store grocery store-issued resuable bags), do a small shopping and walk home from there, and at least use the bags for some other purpose.
For example, the switch from incandesent to more energy-saving bulbs now makes sense with the variety of energy saving bulbs, which have come down in price. There's lots of carrots out there for replacing appliances and ACs, and few sticks. There must be carrots for going bagless first, and ways for different people to use it (like carless persons).
As for Loblaws, I still see it hypocritical as it is a brand new, pedestrian unfriendly big box which is "innovative" by being bagless. That's what pisses me off.