I can no longer contain myself. With the latest notice from the Muni in last week's paper (Greetings Olympic Guests) I wonder if we will ever get a handle on the disconnect between disposing of our garbage and our desire to get everyone using public transit? The notice from the Muni lets visitors know that all household garbage must be disposed of at the Nesters site. But how do you get it there? It is not permitted on WAVE transit and most of these visitors have no vehicles.

When one of my sons asked a member of our current council how he could get rid of his garbage without having  transport he was advised to hide it in a knapsack and take it on board the bus.

I met with four police officers from Quebec who are staying in our neighbourhood who asked me what they were to do with their garbage without having a car and was without a viable response for them. I suppose that the owners of the house may find what the greenest Games really means when they come to clean the house and find a month and a half's garbage piled up inside growing a fine crop of green mold.

Sylvia Dolson of Get Bear Smart Society proferred up a solution through the 2020 Task Force meetings of having a rotating drop off throughout neighbourhoods of a garbage bin/recycling container on scheduled dates but the Muni was unable to move this forward because there was no space to put it and no funds to pay for it.

I will probably offer to take the officers' garbage on my weekly run to Nesters but it sure doesn't address the reality for countless guests and seasonal workers who have no way of getting their garbage to Nesters.

Carson

Whistler