Editor:
If you’re trying to find out what can and cannot go into the curbside blue boxes, you may be out of luck – if my own experience is anything to go by.
First it was plastic bags that, seemingly, became recyclable non grata. Then those Styrofoam food trays, ubiquitous in all food stores on the Sunshine Coast, were left behind. The latest recycling no-no seems to be clean, label-removed, clear glass bottles.
Why? No idea.
And if you think there’s any hint on the SCRD’s online recycling pages, I’d love to know where you found it. Any sort of list of what can and can’t be included in the boxes eluded me. But it seems there are all sorts of different places that various discards can be left – not all in one place, of course.
It’s no use designating depots all over the place that require people to jump in their cars and create more carbon emissions in an effort to deal with waste responsibly.
While so much of the rest of B.C. is addressing recycling with greater effort and success, we here on the Sunshine Coast appear to be marching in exactly the opposite direction, by making it more difficult – and environmentally harmful – to recycle.
R. Mike Steele, Sechelt
