Dead electronics that is.
Tomorrow the town is running an "Electronic Waste Recycling Event".
This event is a departure from "Mayor Dawe’s Electronic Waste Recycling Event"
https://wattstrending.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/waste-oddity/
Which shifted to be dubbed the "Electronic Waste Recycling Event hosted by Mayor Dawe": https://wattstrending.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/what-a-waste/
Looks like our Mayor is sitting this one out, perhaps not a bad idea given all the recent backlash and pointing of fingers over the collection of residential garbage.
If you are looking for details you’ll have to navigate the town’s pathetic excuse for a website here: http://www.town.aurora.on.ca/aurora/e-waste because the My Waste App ( http://www.town.aurora.on.ca/aurora/mywasteapp ) the town has partnered with or purchased from Municipal Media Inc, that I commented on previously here: https://wattstrending.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/garbage-in-garbage-out/ does not reflect these kind of events.
Just one more example of the town’s unsurpassed ability to communicate with residents.
Before you throw stuff in the car be sure to read the fine print as to what is included.
I wasn’t at all surprised to see larger items like Refrigerators, Stoves, Ovens & Air conditioners excluded along with tires, which isn’t in any way considered and electronic item. But smaller and mid-size Household & kitchen appliances like Microwaves, Vacuums, Toasters?
I thought all the nonsense around the "clear garbage bag" concept was to divert items these from landfill.
I’m confused why the town would not look at this as an excellent opportunity to collect them at the same location then have them shuttled to the appropriate regional collection depot.
Perhaps that level of thinking, or communication has already transcended the town’s ability and is now resting comfortably in the great "Communication Graveyard".
The images above are from Luigi Pagliarini’s piece titled the same. Part of an art exhibition, held on a desert island in the Atlantic sea, in front of Africa, and it’s all about the relationship between natural and artificial, between ecosystem and human action, between art and landscape.
You can learn more about it here, along with an interview with the artist:
http://www.ecopolis.org/a-communication-graveyard/
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