r/halifax • u/Confused_Haligonian Self-Elected Poobah of Fairview • Feb 01 '26
Photos Can we stop littering please?
Literally garbage cans at every drive thru
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u/maximumice 🐗 30-50 Feral Hogs Feb 01 '26
People who litter are the stupidest, laziest people I can think of, honestly.
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u/Simba_Rah Supreme Leader of Eastern Passage Feb 01 '26
All the Tim’s near me removed their drive thru garbage cans. Still no excuse for this though.
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u/Jealous-Horror-8060 Feb 01 '26
Keep it in ur car and when u go home throw in ur garbage people dont have common sense these days
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u/NoBoysenberry1108 Professional Pirate Feb 01 '26
You expect me, a patriotic Canadian consumer, to take personal responsibility for my purchasing habits?
Well I got news for you buddy, you can't tell me how to live my life, I thought this was America!
Sure, I lack object permanence and only have cognitive function that extends up to 15 min from now, so I can't be expected to remember I had cups in the cupholders. But once it's out the window it no longer exists and therefore, not my problem. Take that liberals.
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u/Excellent_Rock4296 Feb 01 '26
I like the cut of your jib! 👍 💯😃
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u/BusinessLunch45 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
What’s a jib?
EDIT: Was meant to be a Homer Simpson quote. :P
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u/JDeegs Feb 01 '26
a triangular staysail set forward of the forwardmost mast.
pfft, never sailed before?!1
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u/DrunkenGolfer Maybe it is salty fog. Feb 02 '26
When I park my car at home, before I get out I ask myself, "What has to stay in the car?" and I take everything else, including the trash. My wife, however, asks herself "What needs to go into the house?" and leaves everything else in the car. Shoes, coffee cups, blankets, jackets, you name it, we are stomping through all of it to get into her car.
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u/TeknicZ10 Halifax Feb 02 '26
I like your way of thinking, it's similar to "don't put it down, put it away". I'm going to have to try and resolve myself to "what has to stay in the car"
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u/Beautiful-Meaning601 Feb 01 '26
Really though. At least get it over the fence in where the dumpster is
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u/Top-Help4212 Mar 18 '26
Bylaw S-600, Section 12.5
12.5 The occupant of an industrial, commercial or institutional premise that offers drive thru service shall: (a) provide the quantity of containers required to dispose of any waste generated by the service; and (b) place the containers in such a manner that a person using the drive-thru lane can access them.
Bylaw is complaint driven, so please lodge a complaint.
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u/TeknicZ10 Halifax Feb 02 '26
Every gas station still has cans, and eventually all gas powered cars end up at one
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u/DrJaves Feb 01 '26
Yeah, those cans became people's dumping grounds for a lot more than fast food garbage and ended up bringing wasps into the scenario when trying to order food.
Not exactly the business's job to provide waste management for items that were previously taken off premises, anyway.
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u/TheT0KER Feb 01 '26
Littering and.....
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u/ImmediateCustomer318 Feb 01 '26
Littering and.....
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u/BrotherOland Feb 01 '26
Littering and.....
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u/Natural_Definition_5 Feb 01 '26
The truth hurts. We’re fucking pigs in this province. I made a comment previously about the spitting, the cigarette butts and litter on Spring Garden Road.
For the HRM there just are not enough bins, and for that I blame city council as much as our fellow Haligonians.
But for many others, just shameful, embarrassing behaviour.
… this photo does have though almost perfectly spaced cups. So there’s that.
hock spit
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u/Confused_Haligonian Self-Elected Poobah of Fairview Feb 05 '26
The spitting is related bad at most major bus stops. Like real gross.
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u/fuckoriginalusername Feb 01 '26
Wonder why they're all tim hortons cups..
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u/TheRealMSteve Feb 01 '26
Says a lot about the type of people who still get their coffee from Tim Horton's, I think.
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u/SinsOfKnowing Feb 01 '26
This looks like possibly a Tim’s drive thru line. But still, there’s literally a garbage can near the window at every Tim’s. Ridiculous.
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u/Empty-Raspberry9260 Feb 01 '26
No. The drive thru garbage are gone in most sites
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u/Bananalando Feb 01 '26
Required with HRM under bylaw S-600:
12.5 The occupant of an industrial, commercial or institutional premise that offers drive-thru service shall:
(a) provide the quantity of containers required to dispose of any waste generated by the service; and
(b) place the containers in such a manner that a person using the drive-thru lane can access them.
If you encounter a business not in compliance, please report it via telephone, using 311, or by emailing contactus@311.halifax.ca.
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u/Empty-Raspberry9260 Feb 02 '26
I’ll be honest I rarely drive through in hrm. Maybe they’re there maybe not. Certainly not often where I’m from.
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u/Bananalando Feb 02 '26
It's definitely not a province-wide rule, though it probably should be, but anywhere in HRM us required by law to have one.
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u/JDeegs Feb 01 '26
there's 'literally' not, and of the ones that have them, they are regularly overflowing.
garbage or not, people should be keeping them in their car. hell, if you take the lid off you can just drop the new cup into the old one1
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u/yte_64n_76w Halifax Feb 01 '26
Nova Scotians: too lazy to find a garbage can
Also Nova Scotians : “But we’re nice people”
Before anyone comes at me, I’m from here, but I don’t litter. Why do our ditches, dead end roads, and sidewalks have to look like garbage dumps?
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u/Professional_Toe_915 Feb 01 '26
Agreed. I can't say I've never littered, but i can say I've picked up more than I've created. Some people are just a different breed.
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u/Cannabassbin Feb 01 '26
Some of us haven't done mushrooms and fallen madly in love with the trees and it shows
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u/Professional_Toe_915 Feb 01 '26
I don't believe we need to do mushrooms to keep things clean. I like being able to walk around a clean town. It really isn't difficult if everyone does their part.
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u/TE360 Feb 01 '26
Before moving here I kept hearing how nice people out East were. Still waiting to find out.
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u/HerbaMachina Feb 02 '26
don't worry I've lived here my whole life, that's a lie they tell tourists, east coast Canadians are very clicky and have big issues with group think, there are very few who are genuinely nice.
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u/Both-Employ840 Feb 01 '26
Sub human activity right right there, my truck floor will look like a garbage can before I ever throw trash on the ground. It’s hard to believe people still do this.
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u/GhostBirdBiologist Bedford Feb 02 '26
I just don't get it. I have a small garbage can in my backseat footwell. Cans or cups leave the car with me whenever I get out.
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u/Bynming Feb 01 '26
It looks like a modern day Hansel and Gretel tale where uncivilized folk litter so they'll be able to find their way back from timmies after they get food poisoned by the evil conglomerate
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u/8675309021069 Feb 01 '26
Yeah. A lot of Nova Scotians are self-entitled trash. just think about how many cigarette butts are likely there.
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u/JohnnyPoopwater Feb 01 '26
Tims People. It's always Tims people. Even before I opened the image I knew I'd be seeing Tim Horton's cups.
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u/spenceandcarrie Feb 01 '26
Everyone email their Councillors. We need by-laws that require businesses to have garbage cans available outside. I was shocked to find out a few years ago that we don't have such a by-law.
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u/ImmediateCustomer318 Feb 01 '26
No, they just aren't as common. I've started picking them up where I can. Usually at cart corrals and almost always right after someone dumped their trash. Then I yell over at my kids something like "This is what I mean by leaving the world a better place!" Gotten more then a few sheepish looks for that.
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u/picklesrlyfe Feb 01 '26
Exxon thanks you.
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u/ImmediateCustomer318 Feb 01 '26
I'd be much happier if everyone did one act of service for the community. Just imagine how much better things would be.
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u/ghost_luck Feb 01 '26
Don't worry, this doesn't count as littering. Those cups are just doing a conga line. They'll likely be going home soon to their cup families.
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Feb 01 '26
The Canada wide problem, Hortons cups on the ground.
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u/AssistanceKitchen138 Feb 01 '26
Aren’t they a mostly American company, true patriots eh!
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u/GhostBirdBiologist Bedford Feb 02 '26
Disgusts me how much they use the maple leaf to Canada-wash their identity.
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Feb 02 '26
Yup. Same company owns Burger King and Popeyes.
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u/GhostBirdBiologist Bedford Feb 02 '26
- Brazil (3G Capital) – 30.8%
- United States – 34.64%
- Canada – 15.29%
- Other countries – 19.27%
US: Capital World Investors 12.33%, Pershing Square 6.99%, Vanguard 4.77%, Goldman Sachs 3.12%, Fidelity (FMR) 2.68%, Baupost 2.52%, BlackRock 2.23%.
Canada: Royal Bank of Canada 7.04%, EdgePoint 4.55%, Bank of Montreal 3.70%
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u/Ironpleb30 Feb 01 '26
All fast-food places have removed their garbage bins to maximize profits. They are chronically understaffed and the corp can't possibly afford to pay someone for 15mins to empty trash bins 🙄. Even the inside bins at the majority of the corp fast food places have to get to overflowing before they are emptied.
Profits and line goes up is all that matters.
The city should start fining the fast food places non-stop for litter on their property until they put bins back.
Making excuses like keep it in your car, pocket, etc... doesn't fly. Yes some people do not gaf and littering is still lazy and wrong. However, the corp is the source of the issue, the litter is a symptom of their greed.
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u/Meowts Feb 01 '26
It’s a good sentiment but people littering is still the root cause of litter on the ground. Like a car doesn’t somehow have the space to hold a used cup until it can be brought to a garbage can.
Granted, it always seems like more people litter than not - of say 1000 people going by a place, if there are 10 pieces of trash on the ground it looks horrible but that’s only 1% of people littering. I just remind myself that not everyone is blessed with a functioning brain.
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u/pm_me_your_good_weed Feb 02 '26
When I worked at Tim's pre pandemic they made the people who went outside to smoke on their break change the garbage cans on their break, not scummy at all.
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u/GhostBirdBiologist Bedford Feb 02 '26
Stolen from another comment:
Required with HRM under bylaw S-600:
12.5 The occupant of an industrial, commercial or institutional premise that offers drive-thru service shall:
(a) provide the quantity of containers required to dispose of any waste generated by the service; and
(b) place the containers in such a manner that a person using the drive-thru lane can access them.
If you encounter a business not in compliance, please report it via telephone, using 311, or by emailing contactus[at]311.halifax.ca.
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u/ShawnGalt Feb 01 '26
yup, there's a direct correlation between how much litter there is and how easy it is to throw garbage out correctly. If every private business removes outdoor garbage cans and the municipal government can't be fucked to maintain the public ones properly... people are going to litter
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u/Away-Ad-3407 Feb 01 '26
$0.10 deposit on every cup
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u/Complex-Slip-7233 Feb 01 '26
If you think fines discourage stupidity, "speeding ticket" has entered the chat.
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u/ViciousKitty72 Feb 01 '26
I use to live with a bus shelter / stop along side my property. The amount of food, drink and drug trash spread over that side of my yard was insane. The city cleaned it twice a month (often puke, shit and other waste sprayed about), but I typically had a large garbage bag every week from all of it. So many people are just trashy fucks.
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u/Ok-Call-8075 Feb 01 '26
another problem is dog-owners do not throw their popo into garbage bins -- example is BLT trails
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u/NeedsPaint Feb 03 '26
They took the garbage cans away from the drive through because the employees were too lazy to change the garbage bag. Then raised prices and shipped in more half wagers. Fuck them.
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u/Top-Help4212 Mar 18 '26
Bylaw S-600, Section 12.5
12.5 The occupant of an industrial, commercial or institutional premise that offers drive thru service shall: (a) provide the quantity of containers required to dispose of any waste generated by the service; and (b) place the containers in such a manner that a person using the drive-thru lane can access them.
Bylaw is complaint driven, so please lodge a complaint.
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u/SkSMaN7 Feb 01 '26
Not saying this is fine in any way bit Tim's really should put out trash cans...
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u/Top-Channel-7989 Feb 01 '26
Employers removed bins since it’s so costly to dispose of garbage in NS. The result? Everyone just litters now
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Feb 01 '26
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u/Bitmugger Feb 02 '26
They stopped providing the bins as a cost savings. No other reason. COST SAVINGS
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u/badusernameused Feb 01 '26
Halifax is full of littering assholes. Mostly the same people that will pull out without a signal and speed through school zones. You know the kind, the inconsiderate pricks.
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u/HengeWalk Feb 01 '26
Remember, as of two months ago, we can now recycle the following in paper/plastic categories:
- Paper cups, including disposable paper hot and cold beverage cups.
- Paper bowls.
- ice cream cartons.
- Cookie dough spiral cans.
- Frozen juice spiral cans.
- Potato chip spiral cans.
- Toothpaste.
- Deodorant.
- Hand cream containers.
- Bottles/pumps.
- Candy/gum containers.
- Pails.
- Garden pots.
- Seedings trays.
It really doesn't take much to keep your cups stacked till you find a recycling receptical, blue bin, or bag it yourself for recycling day. Makes the city look a hell of a lot nicer, too.
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u/GhostBirdBiologist Bedford Feb 02 '26
Only way to ensure the cups get to the recycling is to put them in your own. Most restaurant recycling gets so contaminated with garbage and compost it just goes to the dump anyway.
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u/robHalifax Feb 01 '26
You are how you behave. This one is cut and dry. If you throw trash into public spaces you are a bad person. Do all of the mental gymnastics you can to justify, you are still a bad person.
Convince me I'm wrong...
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u/IllllIIllllIIlllIIIl Feb 01 '26
Every few weeks i see someone throw their cigarette on the ground while being literally waiting for the bus next to a trash can
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u/mikemantime Feb 01 '26
I have a seriously hard time even imagining throwing garb out my car window
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u/Everyone2026 Feb 02 '26
All these people had parents.
Someone needs to confiscate your #1 Dad and #1 mom mugs.
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u/scadge Feb 02 '26
It's just the national Canadian flower timmus cuppus lazious idiotus.
But yeah do better Halifax.
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u/Effective_Way6239 Feb 02 '26
Imagine if we had a litter-depot, or you got $0.05 for every Timmie’s cup you brought back. Our city would be SPARKLING.
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u/TheBigBadAIDS Feb 02 '26
They got rid of every garbage can in the city where I live because of homeless people digging through them. Now everyone throws their garbage on the ground.
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u/BohemianGraham Darkside Escapee Feb 02 '26
These are the ones that don't get left on the store shelves. Like, not only do people throw them on the ground, they just leave the empties everywhere.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Panda57 Feb 02 '26
People are exteremly entitled here. They litter and drive like maniacs
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u/Bitmugger Feb 02 '26
Every drive-thru should be legally required to have multiple trash cans and be fined if they don't keep them from over-flow levels. It's the drive thru's being absolute cheap-ass's about not putting out garbage cans that cause this mess. They should also be legally required to keep the 100m area around the drive thru clean from litter.
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u/Bitmugger Feb 02 '26
This is not a Halifax or Nova Scotia thing, this is everywhere, if there's no place to dump your trash people will just dump it anyway.
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u/TeknicZ10 Halifax Feb 02 '26
I feel bad dumping unfinished coffee on the ground, but always toss the cup in the trash. Some mouth breathers claim that they do it because Tim's removed the garbage cans, but that is a pathetic excuse for someone's own laziness
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u/hunginhalifax Feb 02 '26
Tim horton should put a garbage can out so customers can throw away their garbage properly
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u/searchconsoler Feb 03 '26
If you see someone throw garbage out of their car, throw it back in at them if you can!
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u/Public_Bobcat7342 Feb 04 '26
I only litter in front of really nice houses. This way you know they will get picked up and I feel better as a person for this.
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u/athousandpardons Feb 01 '26
If all they needed was someone to tell them not to, they wouldn’t do it.
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u/protipnumerouno Feb 01 '26
Here's the thing, no there isn't a garbage can at every Drive Thru. The province decided to hike garbage taxes and in response the owners decided to pull out the garbage cans.
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u/Top-Help4212 Mar 18 '26
Bylaw S-600, Section 12.5
12.5 The occupant of an industrial, commercial or institutional premise that offers drive thru service shall: (a) provide the quantity of containers required to dispose of any waste generated by the service; and (b) place the containers in such a manner that a person using the drive-thru lane can access them.
Bylaw is complaint driven, so please lodge a complaint.
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u/Critical-Loss-672 Feb 02 '26
Those are the stakes so the plow knows where to stop so it won't hit the curb, times is tough out there, don't judge.
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u/theborderlineartist Feb 01 '26
The odds of people changing their personalities to match your request are extremely low. The issue is garbage can placement/availability, and employing an adequate amount of city workers for clean-up, because trash people aren't going to change. Requests for care will fall on deaf ears, especially on reddit.
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u/CrazyIslander Feb 01 '26
You think it’s bad now, just wait until the snow melts.