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That was a good letter written by two seniors re: large garbage containers.
I am a senior citizen living alone and am on home oxygen and have to have someone take my garbage to the road.
My regular garbage can sits just outside my front door, my recycling container is inside.
I have no place to keep these monster containers. I think a more intense survey could have been done to look into individual needs.
This happened so fast with no consideration for certain households and their needs.
Michele Keith
Collingwood, ON
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Why does a single senior need these large bins?
Also, where do you store them? Our houses are all attached. We have single-car garages. Where do we put them on the veranda? That would make the neighbourhoods look like a dump.
Who came up with this idea? Where was their head at?
This needs to be re-thought on what our needs are. Not everyone has the same. We should have had a choice of small or large bins.
Joyce Mackenzie
Wasaga Beach, ON
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I am in my 85th year and have enough trouble setting out the current bins. As for the new ones – Ihave no idea how I will handle them.
I would even hire some young person, to put the out, but there are no young people in my area that I know.
I cannot believe there is no other solution in this world of high technology.
Joan Roth
Collingwood, ON
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I just read the letter regarding the new garbage bins, and totally agree with the writer's opinion. We are in the same situation as are most of our neighbours.
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I have had a residence in the Collingwood area for the last 25 years and we have just retired here.
This program has been done before, how did our so-called government make such a wasteful mistake.
Toronto, maybe 12 years ago underwent this change.
People had a choice at “what size” they wanted based on circumstance (family, single person, retired people). A little logic there.
So tell me, this has been done before, what the heck were they thinking?
Now you have a garbage looking community on garbage day.
Someone needs to go! All the way to the top.
Anna Knowles
Collingwood, ON
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Both my neighbour and I are disabled, over 70 years old, and live alone. It will take us the entire winter to fill those bins.
Also, being disabled, we won’t be able to get the bins to the curb without assistance from someone.
We don’t have anyone to help us so we are asking for a better solution.
There are other seniors in the neighbourhood who feel the same way.
One neighbour's husband has cancer and she’s a very tiny lady she will never be able to move those bins.
Most of Wasaga Beach is seniors. Why weren't we asked if these bins would be a problem for us?
Lucy Teal
Wasaga Beach, ON
