UK rubbish

Leeds University

Gateshead, UK

White Rose Centre, Leeds

Theater Royal, Newcastle, UK

Newcastle City Centre, UK

Waste streams in México

Doggie do do

Clear messaging for dog owners?  Photo from Tim and Sue in Rounhay Park, Leeds, UK.

I dunno . . . seems a little complicated?

Heiden, Switzerland

In case you need a mutt mitt...

Lake Louise

Chilliwack

 

 

 

Digital junk

Drag and drop to discard.

The default icon on a Mac is a sleek metal-looking trash bin while Windows uses a bin marked with the recycling arrow.  Did older operating systems have similar ones? I can't recall..

Makeshift bins

In a park.

On a street corner.

At an apple orchard.

On the beach. 

(Last five photos from Sue in Quintana Roo.)

Garbage replaces the news in London...

Garbage Chutes

Construction on a new Environment building at the University of Waterloo

Construction site on Erb Street in Waterloo, Ontario

Union Station, Toronto

Cigarette butts

Are butts biodegradable? Check out this article: 

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/cigarette-butts-one-huge-problem-two-solutions.html

(First three photos from Sue)

Washrooms

Acadia University washroom garbages including composting.

Hamilton GO station washroom.

Menstrual product disposal bins in washrooms:

Another motion sensor.

Foot pedal operated.

Automatic sensor opening.

Food Courts

Waste streams and washing station in a mall food court in Hamilton, Ontario.

Food Court at Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario.

Eaton Centre (photo from Tim).

Bins as ads

Dual purpose and sleek design.  An ad on a litter bin in Venezia.

At Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Collection day

Truck picking up centralized bins in Spormaggiore, TN, Italia

Garbage collection in Venezia... human powered.

Street collection/cleaning in London.

in the Milano train station.

Bags and bins at curbside for pick up in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.  In 2008, the town introduced new regulations whereby only one non-transparent bag of garbage could be put at curbside.  Additional garbage is put in clear bags (with recycling in blue transparent bags).  Other municipalities in Nova Scotia saw a increase in recycling and composting when limits were placed on the number of non-transparent bags permitted at curbside.

Empty recycling bins at curbside in Waterloo, Ontario.  Blue bin recycling originated in neighbouring Kitchener, Ontario in 1981, with city-wide implementation by 1984.  At that time, participation rates were about 85%.

Cart recycling at the University of Waterloo.

Residential collection bins in Digby, Nova Scotia.

Recycling, garbage and compost bins lined up in Toronto, Ontario. Various bin sizes are available.

Residential cart program in Leeds with reminders about what to do with your bins (your collection days and what to put in each bin).

Bins ready for collection in Iceland.

Iceland green bin.

Garbage pick up in Iceland.

Iceland encore.