I've thought it for a long time, but now I'm convinced that as a functioning society, we are doomed.
Despite having two months to absorb the booklet of instructions about how to place receptacles on the street, an early survey of my street suggests that only half of homeowners have comprehended those few pages. How to face them toward the truck, how far apart they should be, how the garbage container should be first in line — seems pretty simple to me, but apparently that's more than many can manage.
I certainly hope that the operations department at North Cowichan has allowed for several weeks of slowed collection as they experience the considerable lack of cooperation from its homeowners — who no doubt will continue to complain about how high taxes are.
Yes, especially in the Maple Bay area there has been consternation about what one can use to hold compost, now that even compostable bags are verboten....and I will expect that as high a proportion as above has not likely appreciated or deemed it necessary to comply with this — but only experience at the collection plant will confirm or clarify that aspect.
Is it ignorance, or a perverse determination that "You can't tell me what to do!"?
Bruce Wilkinson
North Cowichan
