Dear Editor: I read with frustration the article on getting people to recycle in New Westminster. (Don’t waste your chance for a greener planet, Community, Record, Aug. 31.)
If reasonable, average and well-intentioned people aren’t doing it right then the system is at fault, not the people.
Look at the bottom of the article with the seven categories people need to distinguish. No. That’s a recipe for poor implementation. Why on earth can’t glass and plastic go in the city blue bins? Other cities do, why can’t ours? I’m sure there will be official reasons why not, but if you want people to recycle then make it simpler for them to do it.
I’m a life-long recycler, and I go brain dead at the bins when I haul out items to recycle. More simple, more recycling. C’mon City of New West. Make it better.
Allan Greenwood, New Westminster
