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Garbage
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The City of Clarence-Rockland, Physical Services Department has four parts
to its waste disposal program. These include: Garbage,
Recycling, Compost and Landfill.
In December 2001 a new recycling
program was initiated, using an alternating Blue and Black box system. To get the complete information on this public works program, click on the above link.
If you need further information call:
446-6022, ext. 247.
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WSI Waste Services look after the
Clarence-Rockland refuse and recycling
needs. Here their link:
1: WSI Waste Services
2: Clarence-Rockland Environment (including garbage and recycling collections)
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REMEMBER: You are only allowed to put
out up to three garbage bags, without tags and
you must put containers out only after 7 p.m.
PLEASE... Cover recycles on windy days. |
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SUGGESTION:
- Try to put your refuse out in the early morning. If you leave it out over night you may
find that dogs, crows, skunks, or other varmits may eat through the plastic bags.
- This garbage was left over after crows pecked their way through the plastic.
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Crow's Nest or Dog's
Breakfast!
For those doubting Thomases who don't think crows can mess up our garbage... here
is proof. This cawing character (probably a Raven) was caught on Blue Jay Drive the day before garbage pick-up.
The owner had forgotten that our refuse day was one day late because of the long weekend and had put out the trash
too early, giving our black-feathered friends plenty of opportunity to mess it up. Delicious!
(We are getting between two and six crow attacks per week)
(Photo - Patrick Meikle)
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| This week's crow/raven attacks in the Canaan
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The Alta Vista (Coronation Park) area of Ottawa is not the only place
that is being invaded by crows. Thankfully we are not getting the many thousands that Ottawa has (click here), but the few that do descend on our local
neighbourhoods are a nuisance neverthless, giving us early morning wake-up calls, and attacking our garbage.
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| (CR/BJ/FH, May 27/28, 2011) Refuse and recycling pick-up was one day later last week due to the
long weekend and over one dozen households in our quarter put their materials out one day too early on the Friday.
(Obviously they do not visit the Canaan Connexion
to get our front page pick-up reminders.) Also, many of our neighbours who do not use proper closed containers
for their garbage are being hit by marauding squadrons of crows. These were just some of the attacks recorded by
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 Garbage Day - Crow attacks up from last week!
In an on-going struggle between the crow and raven's need to find food, thereby creating
havoc with our weekly garbage bags, and the local neighbours trying to keep the community neat and clean, we have
taken on the onerous task of monitoring this local "war zone".
Every week as we walk around our neighbourhood on garbage day, we count the crow attacks on garbage
bags. (This is serious stuff!)
These avarian predators of the family Corvidae swoop in after your weekly treasures have been
placed at the end of your driveways and delight in pecking through the plastic, pulling out their booty, and flying
off with whatever they can scavenge. They particularly seem to go for soggy paper tissues and used feminine supplies.
Disgusting as this may seem, it was even more revolting when one neighbour left this trophy at the end of her driveway
for nearly five weeks!
And is seems that some of our neighbours just don't learn. Week after week it is the same families
who allow their garbage to be picked over, simply because they do not use secure lidded containers.
On a related note to our block walk, we count the number of barking dogs around our one-kilometer
amble. There are usually two to six barking dogs... the highest count has been 16! (We try to get up as early as
we can on a Saturday and Sunday morning just to get those early risers yelping (grin).
Cretin dog owners
And on a related note on dogs... there are still a number of cretins who are not picking
up after their dogs. Some people are walking their mutts under the cover of darkness... I guess they figure if
people don't see them, the don't have to pick up.
Even though we live near the country, this is still a stoop and scoop community. Yes and that
included along Canaan Road. More...
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Recycling
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Recycle pamphlets delivered
 Click on the graphic to get the latest "Collection Calendar" which tells
us everything we wanted to know about blue and black box do’s and don’ts. It was delivered in our mail. If you
want a hard copy, you may want to call the City of Clarence-Rockland, Public Works, (613) 446-6022, Extension 6.
You can also catch the weekly cycle on the Canaan Connexion home page.
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NOTE: You can get the latest recycle
collection
calendar on the City of Clarence-Rockland website.
For the PDF file, click here.
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This is one of many
WSI Waste Services
Recyle trucks.
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Composting
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The Rockland Compost Centre is located
on Highway 17, about one kilometer east of Mr.Gas, on the north side of Rockland.
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The refuse guys will NOT pick up your
compost (branches, grass, etc), but you can
drop them off at this compost site.
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Burning Regulations
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| Did you know that you need a burning permit in the City of Clarence-Rockland if you are burning
leaves and garden waste. In fact you even need a permit if you want to have a backyard summer bonfire. The permit
is available from City Hall and is only $10. You may want to look into it before you light up the next time. Burning
compostable material (leaves, grass, twigs, etc.) is discouraged. We recommend bringing this stuff to the local
Compost Centre, located on Highway 174, about one kilometer
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| Cumberland Village and Ottawa area
wast collection calendar |
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 Ottawa residents can confirm their waste collection day by
calling the City of Ottawa at 3-1-1
or by visiting their Web site. More...
For more news from the Cumberland Village area, Click here.
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( For more Environment News click here. )
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The Annual Canaan Road Clean-up
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 Speaking
of garbage, many thoughtless and ignorant users of Canaan Road throw their garbage from out of their vehicles.
Over the months this material collects in the ditches. Each year, the good residents of the area (Canaan Road,
Forest Hill, Blue Jay Ridge and even from farther afield), gather in the spring to have a Canaan Road Clean-up
Day.
In 2009 the First Annual Monique Lussier Memorial Clean-Up Day was dedicated to the memory of Blue Jay resident, Monique Lussier, who passed away from cancer in January. More... |
~ Canaan Connexion ~ 
Don't forget! If we have a long weekend, 
