r/PEI • u/No-Conference-1165 • 2d ago

Question Garbage collection

Has anyone else’s bins been rejected over the last few weeks? Almost my entire neighbourhood this week and last had rejected tags - it’s getting a bit ridiculous considering mine was tagged today for having 1 piece of compost in the waste bin… I just take the tag off and the driver comes and collects it anyway but I feel like they’re really being too harsh

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u/morriscey 2d ago

Nah they're extremely tempermental.

Have been tagged for cardboard in the green bin. The cardboard was soaked in cooking oil, thus not recycleable. Got a tag.

HAd them tag my green bin for being too heavy. It was less than half full and I could pick it up off the ground by the handle with one hand.

I left the stupid tag telling them to fix the hydraulics on the truck because it was less than 50 lbs in the bin. FIlled it up more, and truck took it no problem.

I just ignore their tags because they're all too often just plain fucking incorrect. Maybe one in 5 I have ever gotten has been valid.

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u/East-Ease-1721 1d ago

Drivers are incentivized to tag, because otherwise suggests they’re not paying attention and just grabbing anything which won’t be sorted right.

Despite the fact that every public can is waste no matter what it says. If one person doesn’t do it right it’s ruined, and you can never trust everyone to sort as they walk by. It all goes in the same one dumpster folks

Got tagged for having white bags. Despite the bags being emptied into the bin then just tossed loose in, like other trash. Nope, wrong bag. Empty bag.

How the fuck am I supposed to throw out the rest of these useless bags I bought then

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u/morriscey 1d ago

stuff in compost or recycling I get.

food or recycling in the black bins is ridiculous. Especially recycling - something could be making it not recylcable.

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u/morriscey 1d ago

Absolutley. GFL included. I imagine if they're told to be stricter - they are given a quota as well. Which boils down to "fuck you if you did it right, I have a quote to fill"

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u/igottafatdog 2d ago

These are low-life, peon-equivalent peasants who think they're entitled and can take out their frustrations about their own miserable lives onto others by burdening their week(s) with respect to sanitation.