Social media tips suggest sprinkling cayenne, chili powder, strong cleaners or other substances to deter animals, but these substances can also harm the people picking up the garbage, city says<\/p>\n
Substances used to discourage animals from getting into your garbage have an unintended side effect, the city says: namely, they can sicken the people picking up your trash.<\/p>\n
The City of Greater Sudbury has recently released a few social media posts regarding the use of deterrents to keep animals out of household garbage cans. The issue is humans are animals, too, and those substances can sicken or harm the city\u2019s waste collection teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cTips on social media suggest sprinkling chili powder, cayenne or cleaners on garbage bags to deter animals,\u201d the city said in a recent post. \u201cPlease do not. These can make workers sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
The post states that there have also been several instances of strong chemicals and other substances placed in household garbage.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven small amounts can make workers sick if inhaled, touched or blown into the eyes by the wind,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChemicals are harmful to the environment and workers and even \u2018natural\u2019 substances can injure workers if inhaled, absorbed through the skin or enters the eyes. Use your green cart to keep wildlife away from your garbage bags\/container.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hazardous waste like chemicals and cleaners should be disposed of at a proper depot, not included with household trash.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re asking residents to avoid putting any substances on their garbage bags. Instead, please bring household hazardous waste \u2014 such as chemicals and cleaners \u2014 to a proper depot,\u201d the post states. \u201cNot sure where an item should go? Visit greatersudbury.ca\/wastelookup<\/a> or call 311 for help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media tips suggest sprinkling cayenne, chili powder, strong cleaners or other substances to deter animals, but these…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,94157,66],"class_list":["post-187616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-garbage-collection-sudburyanimal-deterrents-in-household-garbage","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}