The strike has gone on for almost 2 months.  What are people doing with the garbage?  Some are dumping it in the parks, others with friends and relatives in nearby municipalities. We are fortunate to have a garage and a few garbage cans to stockpile away from the house.  But if we were back in our old apartment in Kits we’d be screwed (particularly with the flow of dirty diapers we’re generating).  Some people we know are burning stuff in their fireplaces.  I’m sincerely curious about how people are managing their garbage & recycling pileup.

Link: Strike makes woman easy pickings for garbage scam.

A Vancouver woman and three of her neighbours are out $40 after being tricked by a bogus trash collector.
Tara Wohlberg told CBC News a man with a van full of garbage knocked on her door at 5 p.m. Thursday and offered to take her garbage away for $20.
She said she collected up a bag of her own trash and three from her neighbours and paid the man a total $40 to take it all away.
But the next morning, her garbage had been returned to her alley and "the rats, crows and raccoons had an all-nighter with my fish skins and cat litter," she said.