I spent some quality time with Google Calendar and the schedule from the City of Vancouver, what I came up with is this handy set of public calendars that will tell you when your garbage should be picked up You can subscribe in Google Calendar, iCal and maybe other programs, too.
This is the set of North Schedules. I didn’t do the South schedule simply because I wanted to see if there was any interest before I invested the time.
If you have questions, call the Vancouver “Garbage, Yard Trimmings and Recycling Hot Line,” M-F, 8-4, (604) 326-4600, or send them an email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If anyone there wants me to change something, or to help me maintain the calendars, that’d be swell!
(There was kind of an existing public calendar, but it was only for the Purple Zone, and I couldn’t find a way to contact the creator, Tom Metzger for “Vancouver, BC South Garbage Collection Schedule, Purple Zone.”)
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