Toronto Garbage Collection During the Strike.
June 22nd, 2009 categories: Around TORONTO
***PLEASE NOTE: AS OF NOON ON JUNE 22, 2009 THE CITY WORKERS ARE NOT ONLY ALLOWING CARS TO DELIVER GARBAGE TO THE SITES BELOW, ONLY CITIZENS ON FOOT.***
As suspected the Outside workers in the City of Toronto, not including Etobicoke have gone on strike. Here is some information on living through the 2009 Garbage Strike:
For Houses
Residential curbside garbage, green bin and recycling collection is cancelled in all areas of the City except Etobicoke, where it will continue. Use a backyard composter for yard waste and organics (no meat or dairy products should be composted)
Residents are asked:
- To help elderly and disabled people in their neighbourhood by offering to take their garbage to designated nearest drop-off locations
- Not to throw garbage onto streets, into lane ways or parks
- Not to leave litter or waste at litter bins. These will not be emptied during the disruption
- Deliveries of pre-ordered new and additional residential garbage and blue bins will continue.
- Existing requests for repairs or exchanges of residential bins will be postponed until the labour disruption has ended.
Should the labour disruption continue, allowances will be made to permit residents to put out additional garbage for collection after resumption of normal services.
Garbage drop-off locations
Transfer Stations
Two transfer stations will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to accept both residential and commercial garbage:
188 Bermondsey Rd
(Eglinton Ave. E. & Victoria Park Ave. area) Ingram Transfer Station
50 Ingram Dr
(Keele St. & Eglinton Ave. W. area)
All residential waste will be accepted free of charge. All must be double-bagged.
In addition, five transfer stations will be open 12 hours a day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, to accept both residential and commercial garbage. Remember to double bag.
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Disco Transfer Station
120 Disco Rd
(Dixon Rd. & Carlingview Dr area) -
Dufferin Transfer Station
35 Vanley Cr
(Chesswood Dr & Sheppard Ave. W. area) -
Victoria Park Transfer Station
3350 Victoria Park Ave
(Victoria Park Ave & Finch Ave. E. area) -
Commissioners Street Transfer Station
400 Commissioners St
(Lake Shore Blvd. E. & Logan Ave area) -
Scarborough Transfer Station
1 Transfer Pl
(Markham Rd & Sheppard Ave. E. area)
Additional residential drop-off locations will be announced should the labour disruption continue for more than five days.
THANKS RICHARD YOU ARE ALWAYS SO HELPFUL.. WITH THE
TRANSFER STATIONS.. IT IS A GREAT TO FIND OUT WHERE
TO TAKE IT..
Let me know when you are going and I will give you a couple of presents!
What you mean that you are not going to the transfer
stations.?? Hey Miller why not fine the picketers
500.00 for stopping the garbage from getting through..
Each and every one of them…That should make up some
of the money to pay the mess..
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Just a thought … If Toronto residents are really fed up being held hostage under mounds of garbage, why not simply dump your garbage off in front of those picket lines of striking civil servants? Similarly, why not dump your garbage off at municipal offices, police stations, the mayor’s residence, the residence’s of City councilors, etc.? Wouldn’t that make cleanup easier once the strike is over? (Always think ahead).
If anything, once opposing sides in this dispute are directly exposed to the rotting refuse they so flagrantly inflict on local citizenry, the smell alone might help remind them that their primary commitment is to the taxpayer.
Personally, and as a rural resident, I have no great love for the hopelessly gridlocked, multi-confused ‘Big Smoke’ or whatever misery its residents so willfully endure. It could be argued that the smell of rotting garbage is a noticable improvement. It’s all part of the “Manhattanization” experiment you sewer rats were all so fond of.
As many residents of Toronto face the challenges that the current garbage strike has left them, one man has taken a new approach to a solution. Roofer Dave of Toronto has suspended his regular business tasks, and now offers residents a way to get rid of their trash in a safe and environmentally friendly way. Trash is collected for merely five dollars per twenty pound bag and taken to licenced disposal facilities for disposal (NOT THE CITY TEMPORARY DUMP SITES) Dave’s plan is to ease the pain residents are feeling not add to it. According to Roofer Dave, “We are currently working on recycling efforts to divert as much as we can from land fills. We will have more on this as facilities get back to us.” Finding Roofer Dave on his route is easy, simply follow @fivebucksabag on Twitter to see where and when he may be in your neighbourhood or contact him through his web site at http://www.fivebucksabag.com.