Industry Smoke-n-Mirrors Goes to DoC Council

Mark your calendars, Coldstream residents.

Go see Mr. Allen Langdon make a MMBC recycling presentation to the Council of Coldstream on Monday, July 5th.

Or don't go.

You'll recall he's the managing director of MMBC, multi-material B.C., our area's recycling program.
Unaffectionately renamed Mini-Material B.C. by residents, by the way, because they take fewer "acceptable" items than the old blue bag system did.  And residents all loved that blue bag system!

His 9-page powerpoint presentation is here, so you can save yourself the aggravation of wanting to shout aloud against his patronizing and condescending bafflegab (remember when he suggested residents combine trips to the recycling depot with grocery errands???)


Hopefully Coldstream council will see through the smoke and mirrors.
Many of us want one question asked:

Why...when the largest Bakery in Canada is Weston...are their (and others') plastic bread bags NOT allowed in the curbside collection boxes?

  (after all, Weston is one of the big boys who bring us this decidedly-shoddy program!)

And Mr. Langdon still doesn't get it, evidenced by the last statement on his presentation:

"In addition, MMBC is willing to work

in partnership with the District of Coldstream

to help address any specific issues

with their residents through targeted education activities."

 

 

Yeah, right!  "targeted education activities".

Translation:  we residents will be further educated!

 

 

 

"How about they get Mr. Langdon up to the garbage dump--media reporter and camera as witnesses--and have Langdon do 'an audit' of garbage bags.  Place everything that could've gone into a blue bin (or taken by a resident to a recycling depot) into one ever-growing pile," offers Kia.

 

 

That'd suit residents nicely, as long as the Morning Star takes a giant panoramic shot of the pile Langdon discovers.

 

Everyone we've talked to is putting most "recyclables" into garbage bags again.

Poor Mother Earth.

And it's MMBC's fault.

And Langdon's.

 

For more on which companies are the corporate biggies who are force-feeding us with this bullshit, click here.