Like most eco-conscious Vancouver residents, Ann Gibbon reduces, reuses and recycles.
She totes her groceries in cloth bags, sorts out her recycling and gets electronic bank statements to cut down on paper waste. In short, she thought she was pretty green.
Then the Vancouver municipal workers’ strike started this week, and garbage collection stopped. And Ms. Gibbon’s family, like many others, got a little greener. “We didn’t like the idea of stinky old garbage piling up in our garage. We really thought, ‘We have to do something about this.’ ”
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