Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

Local resident Cemre Uzumnehmetoglu and her dog Viktor walk on the boardwalk of Montreal's Lachine Canal in Montreal on April 17.But since Parks Canada recently removed around 30 trash bins from the paths along the historic waterway, Ariana Ranjbar says she has begun to notice a new phenomenon at one popular lawn.

In a message posted to Facebook on Friday, Parks Canada said the removal of the garbage bins is meant “to encourage citizens to take responsibility for the management of waste destined for landfill sites.” The Lachine Canal National Historic Site is a 14-kilometre strip of federal land that runs from the city’s Lachine borough in the west to the Old Port in the east. Once an industrial shipping corridor, much of the canal is now bordered by parks, cafés and glassy condo towers. Parks Canada states online that it draws more than one million visitors a year, and in the summer its banks host festivals, spikeball games and countless informal gatherings.

But Cyril Laib, 24, and Lisa Rossignol, 26, say the absent bins have already become a major inconvenience as they walk their dog and pick up after it. “It’s so bad. It’s so inefficient,” Rossignol said Wednesday. “We have to walk extra far to find the trash because obviously we’re not taking this home.”

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