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Vancouver Garbage

Vancouver, I Love You But You're a Mess

Mike Klassen | Posted 03.28.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Mike Klassen

It was crisp and gloriously bright day in early January in Vancouver — the perfect conditions for outdoor chores like taking down Christmas lights. Or, in my case, it also meant grabbing tongs and a pail to scour my block for coffee cups, bus tickets, plastic packaging, as well as used condoms and discarded bags of dog feces.

Vancouver Taxpayers' $430,000 Bill

CBC | Posted 02.20.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Dumping a couch, toilet or refrigerator at the side of the road instead of paying $10 to put it in a landfill is costing taxpayers thousands of dollar...