Dear editor,

I was pretty amazed reading of Courtenay鈥檚 new garbage rules, and enforcement regime.

Lucky for the city residents, they didn鈥檛 need to use the dishonestly-applied Alternative Approval Process that the Comox Valley Regional District foisted on district residents to try to enforce their means of preferred garbage collection, and which proposal failed due to resident distaste.

So for those of us living in the districts, this is a reminder to pay close attention to what鈥檚 happening. For those in the city, good luck to you when they change the recyclability of all those numbered plastics, you misplace a piece of garbage when something else is on your mind, and you鈥檙e paying taxes and fines for city staff to remind you to just be excellent - all the time.

And better hope no one picks up a piece of stray street garbage and uses your incorrect bin to dispose of it.

John Cooke, Comox Valley