[Eric Vail]

I think we need to take season predictions into a new thread. This is the E=ng thread. There is some overlap, but many posts are not in the spirit of the thread.

How about this:

Edmonton looks at upping fines for people who don't dispose of their garbage legally.

In the dead of night, they're driving to the outskirts of Edmonton with their broken TVs, bags of garbage, unwanted play structures and other trash. They dump and then they run.

In the past six months, the problem of illegal dumping in ditches beside rural roads skirting the city seems to be getting worse.

At least, that's the opinion of Brendyn Yome, a construction worker from Beaumont who sees the mess during his daily commute into Edmonton — and has taken it on himself to clean some of it up.

He figures he's stopped a half-dozen times to load up a trailer with someone else's garbage.

"I really noticed it getting worse when the dumps were closing down," said Yome, referring to measures taken in March when COVID-19 was getting a foothold in Alberta.

"That's when it was getting real bad. Like, finding TVs and stoves and couches ... literally, I've seen piles of garbage bags in the ditches out here."

In early September, a video Yome posted to Twitter showed a child's play structure, siding and a washing machine dumped at the southeast city limits near 50th Street.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ping-1.5726767