[Aka]

I've lived down in Waterloo for about a year and a half now, and we always had an extra large blue box that we'd fill up each week. However over the past month they've stopped accepting the box and left us some paper on top stating we needed a municipality provided blue box.

Why the sudden change in policy? and what's wrong with a large recycling box? We'd fill up a normal sized box much too quickly, and we even crush things and flatten things quite well. Recently we've had to just throw out (in garbage bags) stuff we would have otherwise recycled, because they wont take our recycling.

It seems very strange they would do this, because, while the blue box they want us to use is free, it's really not, because we'd have to take x amount of time off work to get it, costing us x amount of lost dollars. And we already have a box, it's just non-standard in height.

Does anyone else have this problem? Are the guys who come to my area just douche bags?

-Aka