March 19th, 2010
Photo du jour : Time for some spring cleaning
By Émile Thomas // 7 Comments
Un printemps sur le campus de l'Université de Montréal.
Au coin du boulevard Édouard-Montpetit et de l'avenue Louis-Colin
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You've got to put up some other pictures of UdeM on this website or else people will just think it's a trash dump over there.
as someone who spends a lot of time travelling in and outside Montreal in Quebec, McDonald's is the number one source of branded litter, as this photo shows some McDo trash.
les déchets-là ne sont pas tout à fait sur le campus de l'U de M...en fait, le sol du campus présent dans ta photo a l'air vachement propre !
@ soup
vous avez tout à fait raison. ce terrain n'appartient pas à l'université, certes, mais il fait partie d'un court corridor entre le campus principal et HEC/École Poly/Fac d'aménagement. Il est effectivement la porte qui s'ouvre à ses bâtiments. Quel bon accueil! le reste du campus peut être propre mais tant qu'il y a cette section dégueulasse près du campus, tous les efforts de l'université seront gaspillés.
Student litter is definitely not only a UdeM problem, but any neighbourhood within the vicinity of McGill, Dawson, or Concordia.
The entire plateau area south of Mount Royal is a massive open-air garbage dump pretty much all year round, as is the area between Atwater and Guy.
I hate to say it, but it appears to be a Quebecquois youth mindset. When I was in Vancouver none of the campuses or student neighbourhoods were covered in garbage the way Montreal is.
It would help, though, if Quebec had better container depot program, and a recycling program where citizens rather than recycling corporations got their money back for reusable waste materials. As it stands now, the only people who profit from reusable waste materials in Quebec are those who own industrial recycling plants, and municipalities with recycling programs.
The eco-cartiers are redundant. They could easily be replaced by bottle depots, and individuals would clean up the litter themselves because there is a financial incentive to do so, as in Vancouver.
From what I understand, Ontario and Quebec are the only two provinces in all of Canada without retail bottle depots and extensive container depot systems.
That said, Montreal has a great community tradition of recycling furniture and electronics by placing them on the street for others to pick up and reuse.
Always depressing to see just how careless people are with their garbage during winter time.
Comment by Christopher King
March 19, 2010 | 9:34 am