Smelly Summer
No garbage rules!
This week, the city workers walked out of office and staged a strike after the union and the city government failed to compromise on the negotiation table about the benefits and compensation of the city workers.
Services run by the city, such as garbage collection, child care centres, ferry services, paramedics etc. are going to be affected. So we are heading towards a smelly and dirty summer!
Hilarious! No bins can be used?! This will just cause people to litter more over the place and made it even more dirty on the street! Toronto is supposed to be as clean as in Singapore, if not, even cleaner than Singapore!!!
No plastics rules!
Starting from June 2009, no more plastic bags! In fact, everywhere is going to charge 5cents for every plastics bag. In fact, it really works and people are indeed using less plastics, and of course this is really great news for the environment.
Some changes in lifestyle too. Packaging now changes from plastics bags to paper bags. Will this cause more trees to be cut? Well, some arguements go saying that trees are renewable, but plastics is in-destroyable. Ok, good enough! Other changes in lifestyle, I have to buy garbage bags, otherwise I could be reusing those plastics! Bit of duhhh to buy bags for garbage that is meant to be thrown away anyway!
