It's garbage porn time again
The merry mail carrier dropped off some more goodness from Portland City Hall yesterday. Hoo boy, it's 21 inches by 17 inches, full color, thick paper, must have cost quite a penny. Even more grandiose than the advertising piece we got from the Water Bureau a while back.
And what does it tell us? Well, not a whole lot.
One, it reminds us when our "real garbage" weeks and "fake garbage" weeks are, the latter being the weeks when they take only recyclables. The two service levels alternate every other week, just as it's been for more than a decade, since the reign of Mayor Creepy and Admiral Randy. If you don't know which week it is, you can just look into your landfill trash can and see how full it is. But just in case you can't do that, I guess you're supposed to hang this calendar up somewhere in your house. "Save until June 2024," it says. It really says that.
Okay, what else is it saying to us? Over on the right there, it tries to educate us once again about which garbage items go in which bins, a process which in Portlandia is about as simple as filling out your tax return.
That's about it. The rest is a bunch of happy talk.
It appears that one of these was sent to every household in the city. Ain't that rich? Here they are the "Sustainability" bureau, and they insist on printing up and mailing out a giant flyer that could have been an email, or a postcard. And it's the exact same information every year, which most of us know by heart, and with fancier and fancier presentation every time.
I see they also have minions sitting around developing phone apps and other toys so that we don't forget to put out our garbage. Vital stuff.
An app is not a bad idea, but do you think that if I sign up, they'll stop mailing me the 21-by-17 every summer to restate the obvious? Ha! Ha! Of course not. Download the app and you can have both. That's "Sustainability," the Portland way.
The town sinks deeper and deeper, and this is what they're busy doing. Oh, well. At least I know, this one goes straight into the blue bin. Right, Stenchy?
One of the first highlights of moving across the river was weekly garbage service.
ReplyDeleteStenchy needs his own blog. I love that dirty rat.
ReplyDeleteI think Stenchy should run for one of those new city council districts.
ReplyDelete“Stenchy for City Council”
He can have a place of honor between Sam and Joanne.
The Portland scheme is the opposite of ours: garbage every week and recyclables every other week. We don't need a printed schedule, just look to see if the neighbors put out one can or two. :-)
ReplyDeleteI know the elite thinking bureaucrats believe they are doing things correctly with these PR stunts. Wish they’d increase their circle of input and include people that aren’t in the bureaucracy.
ReplyDeleteThe “How to sort recyclables before we put them in the landfill” manual. They gotta keep the deception going apparently.
ReplyDeleteGot that right- especially plastics.
DeleteMaybe it is time to the burbs or somewhere.
DeletePeople don't like to learn that they've been lied to all this time
DeleteOne of the great things about moving out of Portland (and there are many!) for us was going back to weekly trash service. Every other week is gross, and is one of the reasons illegal dumping and litter is out of control in Portland.
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