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It must be garbage/ recycling day!!! Driving this morning, I noticed a tornado of debris whirling around on 4 different streets. All because the idiots in my neighbourhood think they are playing a game of "Jenga" when they load their recycling boxes. Now those boxes are empty and their recycling is now stuck in the trees, ditches and streets of Milton. In addition, their garbage bags are blowing like tumble weeds down Main St in the old west. WTF???

I was on my bike this morning heading to the studio and had to turn around for the car. Didn't see that coming at all.

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Yeah, tell me about it! I'm sick and tired of collecting other people's garbage because they are dumb enough not to weigh their blue boxes down with heavier cardboard on the top. I cannot believe that people don't understand: on a windy day, leaving loose soda cans and cookie boxes in the blue bin is a recipe for a messy neighbourhood! I'm picking up garbage from around the pond as it already looks like a ghetto!!!
Please, please, please dear neighbours - don't stack your blue bins as it will tip over and make sure you put a heavy cardboard box on top nice and tight. It's not rocket science!
Those who will respond to this thread as "I can't control the garbage because of the wind" - yes, you can and we all should care about how our town looks and try NOT to spoil the environment.

Why the hell is it ALWAYS windy on garbage day!

Every day is garbage day in some part of the town (maybe not the weekends). So there unless it's only windy on weekends, chances are it's going to be windy on garbage day SOMEWHERE.

I already picked up enough crap to fill another recycling bin.
Oh the joys of being at the end of the street.

I hope someone sees this thread later before they start a new one accusing their neighbours of stealing their trash & recycling bins.

Lets not forget about all the stolen BBQ covers.

Because it is ALWAYS windy in Milton!

Every time it's windy out we always here the same thing! The recycling has blown all over blah blah blah! Why can't we learn from that and not set ourselves up for failure? I would really like to know why from our local councillors we don't have a better system. Why don't we have a blue box with a lid and a latch on it? Perhaps a "blue cart" if you will! Milton is a world class town if not city now, with lots of greenspace and conservation why can't we do our part and lead by example and not follow the Neanderthal ways? With earth day fast approaching I believe it would be a great initiative to implement? Councillors fellow residents of the town of Milton, your thoughts?

Good call! Toronto has those giant blue carts with the lids on them. Why can't we have the same?

Thanks everyone for your comments and ideas. I have received some phone calls today regarding the blue box material being blown around and took some photos which I have sent to staff to show the amount of material on the street and in residents front yards.

Will be raising the concern at the next Planning & Public Works meeting this Wednesday and requesting some form of lids for next blue box order similar to other municipalities so that lighter materials could be contained by the lids while heavier materials put into existing blue boxes until they are possibly phased out.

Colin Best
Local & regional councillor
Wards 2,3,4,5 North of Derry road.
Vice-Chair Halton Planning & Public Works Committee.

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Lids are a good idea and should be looked into. I have also received a number of calls from residents to say there is even more garbage along Louis St Laurent in ward 6 after this wind storm.

I would think that a redesign of the blue box with a lid or making it heavier might end up costing more down the road.

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Wards 1,6,7 & 8

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Thanks, Mr. Best. We need to do something here, because despite our best efforts (no pun intended) these flimsy blue boxes are no match for the mighty winds of Milton.

Hope this didn't post twice, but can we have blue-colored "green bins" for our recyclables? It would be a logical transition to a better blue box design overall, and could work in the interim, for relatively low cost. Even using existing green bins with maybe a blue band around them, or a black-colored lid or whatever. Seems to me that green bins are not thrown around nearly as much as the flimsy blu bin.

What I also find bloodboiling is that it's 3:45 and Yates Drive hasn't been even picked up yet!!!

My question to the regional councilor is why are we paying taxes to the Region then????
Halton needs to keep up with the population and create smaller pick up collection areas. This is effin ridiculous that it takes them a whole day to collect garbage.

I see the good intention from the municipal councillors to raise it at the Town Council I'm just afraid this may not be their jurisdiction. We could have ended up with half the garbage on the streets had Halton Waste Management was picking up garbage in the morning. I'm totally not happy with the service the Region provides. Period.

I could be off by fuming at the Region, so please correct me if I am. Initiating the mandatory use of the covered blue bins or carts is a great idea and I 100% support it even if it costs money to the households. That, I think, is the least we could do to preserve green space and avoid unnecessary littering.

In terms of windy days on garbage day, we live in Canada, wind is the norm, we have to get used to it and implement measures to deal with it. As far as planning goes, most of the new subdivisions have totally checker-board-style layouts (meaning streets are totally perpendicular which creates an even bigger issue as the streets act as wind-tunnels). Just my 2 cents.