Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area

• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where animals can get at it and throw it all over the park?

  Or you could just be a decent human and take your refuse with you?

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This has been a solved problem for decades. Animal resistant bins have been standard in parks for ages.

    Just one of literally hundreds of examples: cbc.ca/…/bear-proof-garbage-bins-made-in-lethbrid…

    the cafe will gladly take your garbage

    Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. Either way, I’d have to wait in line or skip ahead+interrupt staff and the waiting customers instead of just putting the garbage that I was given into a provided bin out front.

    I agree with the concept of ‘pack in, pack out’, if you brought it to a site, you take it back out with you. But If I go to a location and am given garbage while I’m there, I expect there to be somewhere I can dispose of it. I’m not packing more home than I brought with me.

    I’m also not saying there should be bins all throughout the forest; just in this context where it’s effectively a food court, not providing a bin is ridiculous.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This has been a solved problem for decades. Animal resistant bins have been standard in parks for ages.

      Key word being resistant dude…. They aren’t fool proof and they don’t always work.

      Also this absolute nugget…

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