{"id":1044,"date":"2008-06-18T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/06\/18\/new-recycling-bins-at-the-jean-talon-market\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:43:09","slug":"new-recycling-bins-at-the-jean-talon-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/18\/new-recycling-bins-at-the-jean-talon-market\/","title":{"rendered":"New recycling bins at the Jean-Talon Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/2589585122\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3023\/2589585122_c79e36c6b0.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, as some friends and I wandered through Little Italy in the muggy afternoon, we stopped by the Jean-Talon Market. I noticed that new recycling bins have been installed inside the main market hall &#8212; recycling bins identical to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/20\/where-are-montreals-public-recycling-bins\/\">those installed last year on McGill&#8217;s lower campus<\/a>. Back then, I praised their ease-of-use and attractiveness and suggested that Montreal install them on its streets. One commenter pointed out a design flaw &#8212; the bins can&#8217;t be emptied when someone locks their bike to them &#8212; and another suggested that installing them city-wide would be prohibitively expensive thanks to the rising cost of metal. But, for the most part, I think they&#8217;re still a pretty good option. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m flabbergasted that City Hall and the borough seem to have abandoned all efforts to bring recycling bins back to the city&#8217;s streets. Since the last plastic containers were removed in 2003 or 2004, pedestrians have had no choice but to throw their recyclables into the trash. (They could keep them until they get home, or step into a building with private recycling facilities, but most people are too lazy for that.) Montreal is one of the most wasteful cities in Canada, producing more garbage and recycling less than people in Toronto and Vancouver, and we are absolutely shamed by some European cities that have taken great strides in cutting the amount of garbage they produce.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg in particular is an example we should follow. Since 1999, the amount of trash its citizens generate has actually <i>decreased<\/i>, despite a growing population, and 57 percent of trash is recycled. The rest is incinerated in low-pollution facilities; the ashes are then used to repave streets. There is now so much excess capacity in Hamburg&#8217;s incinerators that it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/09\/world\/europe\/09trash.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\">has even agreed to temporarily import trash from beleaguered Naples<\/a>, which ran out of landfill space last year and has letting rubbish pile up in its streets since then; a 56-car train full of waste will make a daily journey between the two cities from now until the end of summer. <\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Quebec drafted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca\/matieres\/mat_res-en\/parts-1-4.htm\">policy<\/a> that would require Montreal to recycle 60 percent of its waste by 2008; four years ago, only 34 percent of our waste was recycled, and not much has changed since then. While individual institutions are making efforts to improve their recycling facilities, not much will change until the entire city takes a more aggressive approach to recycling. That would mean making recycling mandatory and instituting a system for composting organic waste like in Toronto. It also means installing recycling bins on the street: so where are they?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/2207768120\/in\/datetaken\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2142\/2207768120_96ac72660b.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, as some friends and I wandered through Little Italy in the muggy afternoon, we stopped by the Jean-Talon Market. I noticed that new recycling bins have been installed inside the main market hall &#8212; recycling bins identical to those installed last year on McGill&#8217;s lower campus. 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