Toronto's Garbage Strike Is Over

When the garbage strike was on, they had to use parking lots as a temporary drop off location for people to drop off their garbage. The parking lot in the park next to our apartment ended up being one of those drop off locations. The first picture is what the garbage pile looked like after the first time we noticed the parking lot was being used as one of the sites. There's fencing up to keep the racoons out and in the second closer picture, you can see where they're trying to soak up all the juices leaking out of the garbage bags by laying down sawdust, etc. along the sides of the pile.

This is what the pile looked like after we got back from our trip to Vernon for Ivona's wedding. Before we left for the wedding, there was a steady stream of cars coming and going and they'd started on the second and third rows of garbage.

This is them cleaning up the last bit of garbage in the last row - the stuff that had been there the longest. They cleaned it up pretty quick. They started the previous day in the afternoon. It was so grose watching them clean up though. As the back area got full, they'd hit the switch to compact it, and after they did they'd run away from the back because the bags were being squeezed and squished with over a month old bags of rotten garbage and it looked like the garbage truck was spraying water from the back end, that's how much liquid was being squished from all the old bags. It was so grose. They all had gas type masks on with rubber overalls and gloves. As of today, the parking lot was washed down and the fence was taken away too. The grass was finally cut in all the soccer and baseball fields too because those workers were part of the city strike as well. The park is back to normal again.