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The Toronto Lexicon – Garbage Terminology

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Philip Preville

public trash bins (p’b’lik trash binnz) The hundreds upon hundreds of receptacles placed on sidewalks and in parks to accept refuse and keep the city clean, and which—owing to the cost of landfilling—ought never to be used.

disposable coffee cup (dis-PØ’zebl kawfi kup) 1. The reason public trash bins were invented. 2. The worst thing that ever happened to public trash bins. (See public trash bins)

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Philip Preville

Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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