{"id":190845,"date":"2025-05-16T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=190845"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:09:33","slug":"district-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/district-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Message to the District of Muskoka waste management | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This letter was copied to Huntsville Doppler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Thursday our curbside garbage was inspected and the inspector left an &#8220;Oops&#8221; Notice regarding 2 things that didn&#8217;t belong: \u00a01) organics, and 2) Privacy bag larger than allowed.\u00a0I wanted to educate myself on how we had failed to comply, so I inspected the bag myself.\u00a0 Re 1) organics: \u00a0there were 2 dead tree leaves in the bag. We live out in the country and are surrounded by 80&#8242; tall trees. It&#8217;s ridiculous to expect no leaves in the garbage.\u00a0 What harm do 2 leaves do?\u00a0 I compost our green waste in our own composter, as has been my practice for 40+ years, long before it was mandated.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Re 2) Privacy bag larger: There was ONE &#8220;Glad Kitchen catcher&#8221; bag, 3\/4s full. Since 2 privacy bags are allowed, do you want us to use two plastic bags, which would negate the whole purpose of restricting plastic? As far as the size being larger than allowed, both my husband &amp; I checked the District of Muskoka Waste website and could find no dimensions specified. Is the basic white &#8220;Glad Kitchen catcher&#8221; bag, which we have been using for decades, too big? Do you require us to cut off the top and throw it in the garbage?&nbsp; Again, how would that reduce the plastic waste?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could a healthy dose of common sense be applied here?<br>The &#8220;Oops&#8221; Notice stated we could consult:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.muskoka.on.ca\/KnowWhereItGoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.muskoka.on.ca\/KnowWhereItGoes<\/a>, &#8212; but it was unhelpful and stated: &#8220;Content Temporarily Unavailable&#8221;. &nbsp;<br>If the District is going to impose such extreme restrictions, please communicate exactly what you want. &nbsp;<br>Thank you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nichols, Huntsville<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This letter was copied to Huntsville Doppler Last Thursday our curbside garbage was inspected and the inspector left an &#8220;Oops&#8221; Notice regarding 2 things that didn&#8217;t belong: \u00a01) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":183385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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