Recyling

Driving to the gym today, listening to CBC Radio 1. Could I first mention that everything in this city is SO far away. I can't wait to move back downtown.

Anyways. Of late, Calgary City Council is arguing over.....get this, a RECYCLING program. Yes, the city has a recycling program, but you have to drive to the depots which are located around town. Keep in mind that Calgary, pop. 1 million, is about the same size as all of NYC. In short, it's huge. So if you don't drive, so much for recycling.

Some folks here are against having curbside recycling. It "costs" too much. Of course, it never costs to much to widen the Glenmore or build more suburbans 3 trillion miles from the city centre. Nor does it cost anything to build giant landfills and buy up all the property 20 miles around it cause of NIMBY types. Nor does it cost alot to send 200 trucks to the dump everyday.

They have a bottle depot system out here. U take back your bottles and get 10 cents. It's alot like the beer store in Ontario, but they take all bottles back, even those cardboard juice ones. MAYBE......just maybe, they should consider the same thing for paper & plastic containers. It'll at least give the illusion it's a "free market" business so it'll appeal to the rednecks that can't get out of 1960. And at the worst, all the cities homeless folks can pick up used newspapers & plastic butter containers and make a few bucks on them.

I'm really tired of politicians, and I'm tired of how they cater to pocketbook citizens. It's gotten so bad for me I have trouble supporting ANY political stripe. In 2007, you've come to expect the same ole same ole from every politician. Nothing but the same tired bullshit.