When you have stuff to throw away that can't be recycled, you have to bring it to the dump. That costs $25 per load (less than 250 kg). A lot of people don't want to pay that much just to throw out a couple bags of extra garbage. So what do they do? They find other places to dump it. For example, at a four-plex construction site around the corner from our house, not only are the builders not doing a very good job of disposing of their waste, random people have been spotted dumping their garbage on the property. It has gotten so bad at one point there was garbage spilling over the sidewalk and into the street.
The City is considering restricting how much garbage we can throw out in our black bins (which they only let us throw out every other week). If we want to throw more out than will fit in a bin, we would have to buy tags to place on the extra bags. You know where I'm going with this, right? Rather than pay for extra garbage tags, people are just going to sneak-dump their extra garbage somewhere convenient.
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