{"id":6171,"date":"2015-08-27T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2015-09-02T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:58:27","slug":"beaconsfielders-balk-at-trashcams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/27\/beaconsfielders-balk-at-trashcams\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaconsfielders balk at trashcams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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City to keep imagery for years<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With files from Rhonda Massad<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens have expressed concerns,\u201d Beaconsfield Citizens Association<\/a> president Al Gardner told city council at its Aug. 24 meeting, following reports that the city intends to use trashcams in the vehicles that collect residents\u2019 recycling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re already looking at garbage,\u201d Mayor Georges Bourelle told reporters following the Monday night meeting, where councilors voted to pay IPL Inc. $400,000 to buy more smartbins: trash cans with embedded computer chips that monitor residents\u2019 refuse use. \u201cAll we\u2019re doing is using a camera to do the same work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it\u2019s a more economical way to collect garbage, by eliminating jobs,\u201d he explained, \u201cthe second person, who now goes and looks at the garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bourelle asserted that once residents place their refuse cans at the curb, the contents cease to be their property and the city can do whatever it wants with whatever is inside. He noted that before implementing the system, the city diverted some residents\u2019 garbage to city facilities, where officials analyzed what it contained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did look into garbage to take a\u00a0look and see in there to see how much recyclables goes into garbage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe camera won\u2019t be able to read any fine print,\u201d reassured Bourelle, but he nonetheless chided\u00a0citizens that \u201canyone putting into their garbage\u00a0confidential material should not be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourelle acknowledged that the trashcams will be operated by private contractors, not city officials, and that the city will keep the imagery on file indefinitely, to provide evidence\u00a0against potential offenders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trashcams have already raised public ire in London, where Big Brother smartbins were discovered to be recording the identity of passerby\u2019s smartphones and tablets build a giant database that tracked their movements.<\/p>\n

They also sparked protest in Kelowna, B.C., in 2010, over privacy concerns. Two years later, the trash collectors\u2019 union there balked when management installed cabcams to monitor drivers, terming it \u201can invasion of privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to city manager Patrice Boileau, residents have until Sept. 25 to select the bin size that will serve\u00a0their needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come in\u00a0120 litre, 240 litre\u00a0and 360 litre\u00a0<\/span>sizes,\u201d he said. \u201cIf citizens don\u2019t indicate which size they want, they will be assigned an average [240 litre] bin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If, on any given collection day, you have more garbage than your container can hold, the city wants residents to ask their neighbours to use any extra capacity in their bin or store the garbage until the next collection.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy next month I will have three children in diapers, my garbage is full every single week,\u201d said Beaconsfield resident Wesley Prillo said. \u201cI already take anything they leave behind to my office garbage. We are not reducing garbage if we take it someplace else. I would prefer the city provide a compost pick up like other cities and not try to force me to compost on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beaconsfield has also opted to hand out free do-it-yourself composters to residents. So far only 908 of the city\u2019s more than 6,000 households have taken up the offer. Home composters can\u2019t handle meat, fat and oil, though, which still must go into city garbage.<\/p>\n

Pointe Claire, in contrast, has invested in industrial compost collection which recycles these materials, instead of fouling landfill sites with them.<\/p>\n

Councilor Karen Messier reported that Beaconsfield\u2019s trash policies have enabled the city to dramatically reduce its garbage volume.<\/p>\n

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“I already take anything they leave behind to my office garbage,\u201d said Jason Prillo (right). \u201cWe’re not reducing garbage if we take it someplace else.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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City to keep imagery for years By Robert Frank With files from Rhonda Massad \u201cCitizens have expressed concerns,\u201d Beaconsfield Citizens Association president Al Gardner told city council at its Aug. 24 meeting, following reports that the city intends to use trashcams in the vehicles that collect residents\u2019 recycling. \u201cWe\u2019re already looking at garbage,\u201d Mayor Georges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBeaconsfielders balk at trashcams - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/27\/beaconsfielders-balk-at-trashcams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beaconsfielders balk at trashcams - 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