Clear your snow for quicker trash pickup, City of Iqaluit says
If workers have to clear snow themselves, it slows down the work
The City of Iqaluit says when residents clear their garbage bins and driveways of snow, it allows for quicker garbage pickup. (Photo by Livete Ataguyuk)
Clear your snow so municipal workers can remove your trash. That’s the message the City of Iqaluit’s public works department sent to residents in a public service announcement Monday.
Residents and businesses are responsible for clearing a path through the snow to their trash bins, as well as clearing their driveways, so the work can be done safely and quickly.
“Its partway through the snowy season and the snow is starting to pile up a little. If you’re having to clear snow in every bin, it really slows down our garbage pickup,” said City of Iqaluit spokesperson Kent Driscoll.
He said snow must be cleared from on top of the bins and “the path leading to it, as well as the path for the truck to go in.
“And keep in mind if you are on truck water service, you’re responsible for keeping the path clear to the water connection as well.”
If I still lived in your Hamlet of Iqaluit, my response would be ” What? Clear the snow that your municipal workers dumped on my property as they drove by?”
Can residents dump the snow that the city pushed onto their property back on to the road/sidewalk?
It is great there is snow clearing but what about the removal process and setting up dumping locations for snow?
Whoever owns the garbage bins, should look after them, and where will the snow go back on the road?
Lol. It won’t matter. My building’s garbage shed is totally clear and always has been but that doesn’t change the fact that there are garbage bags and a seal carcass in there from before we moved in. I’ve never seen that shed’s floor.