Reduce volume of waste by crushing
[Submitted via mail by Penny Perry]
"People should be encouraged to do the second meaning of Reduce by crushing their containers thus reducing the space required in garbage containers."
AdminGreenest City Planning Team
(Admin, CG2020)
shared this idea
Crushing waste can make collection more efficient, but it doesn’t reduce the tonnes of waste going to landfill or incinerator. Zero waste puts the focus on reducing waste at the source in order to make better use of resources. Also, many containers are recyclable through the blue box or apartment recycling program, or the deposit-refund system for beverage containers. http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/solidwaste/recycling/index.htm http://www.encorp.ca/cfm/index.cfm?It=902&Id=1&Lo=300,17&Se=38&St=Vancouver&Sv=depot
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HelenS
commented
"Packer trucks" were introduced by the garbage industry and city engineers in the 1950s to deal with the huge growth in throw-away products and packaging after WW II. They called it "efficiency" -- but it masked the real problem, noted by Kasza, that we were using too much stuff. Since then we've doubled how much waste we produce in our daily live. Convenience and efficiency got us where we are.
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Kasza
commented
This is one interpretation of the word reduce and it definitely is a good idea to reduce the amount of space used by our waste. But I'm more familiar with the use of "reduce" to refer to the reduction of use of disposable material goods. Rather than having to worry about reducing the space required for our waste, lets reduce the amount of waste products we produce and use.