“What sort of views have the rest of you inherited from your area that are unproductive?” writes Tim.
It’s a really excellent question, which you can read the background to here. You should also try answering them, as this question makes a great meme since everyones answers are going to be different. We’ll learn lots of interesting things if we pass the question on.
Here’s an something both me and my home province are guilty of in our daily actions:
-One view in Saskatchewan is that plastics can’t be recycled unless they are from pop bottles, even though the plastic recycle numbers might match, it’s not like SARCAN will take anything plastic if it didn’t once hold a drink. There are oodles of plastic containers and packaging that we should be recycling, but there’s just no place in the province collecting it (other than our landfills and incinerators).
Also:
-I see farmers everywhere (who don’t grow flax), burning their stubble and losing valuable organic material for their future crops that way.
-Very few people my age take the provincial bus system when getting from city to city, most drive their own cars (A habit I’ve grown into, the last year or so.). Part of this is due to a lack of municipal bus services at the traveler’s destinations, or origin, but mostly it’s laziness.
-Voting Liberal, NDP, or Conservative (Har har har, this partisan joke brought to you by the Green Party).
-Cheering for the Riders (Har har har, please don’t kill me Rider fans, I bleed Green too).
I tag Rosie, Scott, Miss Cellania, Candace, IP, and BBS (to name an eclectic bunch to carry the torch of self inquiry).
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Here’s some other news I mentioned the other week, when a CNN reporter expressed shock that a boy lost in the woods for days hadn’t eaten tree bark. I since learned that a book I read as a child (and again last year for fun) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, is in the news because it ties into the survival story of the lost boy rescued from the woods after he wandered away from his Scout camping trip. The Sun incorrectly identifies the wilderness “Brian” was lost in as Alaskan when it was supposed to be the Canadian Sheild. It shows what kind of barren land Americans peg Canada for, when they can’t even imagine people managing to survive in the Canadian wilderness.
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Rosie | 27-Mar-07 at 8:42 pm | Permalink
thats a hard question. I’m going to have to mull over that. You are basically getting me to try to admit I’m wrong about something. A cold day in hell ’tis.
Saskboy | 27-Mar-07 at 8:52 pm | Permalink
Yeah, it’s not easy, but neither is blogging and we both seem to do that rather well. We’re obviously not shy about offering opinions about things :-D
Tim Ebl | 27-Mar-07 at 9:38 pm | Permalink
Excellent idea, getting everyone to think about this one. I posted a few thoughts at our blog.
That’s weird about your plastics situation. I know over here, we have drop sites all over the place, with separate bins for cardboard, glass, plastic and paper. Do you not have these? Even my home town of Eckville, population nearly irrelevant, has a set of these dumpster sized bins. And I know in Red Deer there is a Blue Box program, where you put your items at the curb once a week ( or something like that).
Saskboy | 27-Mar-07 at 9:43 pm | Permalink
Yorkton has a trial bluebox program (unless it’s ramped up to include everyone now). I missed out on getting a bluebox by a couple days. I saw a Saskblogger complaining about Saskatoon’s recycling program, or more accurately, the lack of a comprehensive one. There are cardboard, tin, and glass bins along with drink containers like for pop, juice and milk, but I don’t think general plastics.
Candace | 29-Mar-07 at 8:04 pm | Permalink
Edmonton has full-scale recycling at the curb as part of garbage pickup (blue box, newspaper bag, etc) as well as recycling depots all over the place. When I lived in Calgary, you had to pay for the bluebox pickup, otherwise you took your stuff to a recycling depot. Vancouver’s recycling sucked, yet Richmond & Surrey had good systems.
That was a tough question & I’m not sure I answered it well, but I tried.
Saskboy | 29-Mar-07 at 9:55 pm | Permalink
Trying’s the important thing when it comes to blogging and thinking :-)
And I learned from it too. It’s good to know the lay of the land, and while traveling even (which I’ve done to a lot of the country) I can’t pick up on things like curbside recycling differences and expectations.