I love riding on a bicycle even on a rainy day like today. Compared to driving a car and taking the bus and metro, riding a bike allows to notice things more easily and I find myself to have more freedom in my movements.

The city has taken a great initiative that I wouldn’t have noticed if I wasn’t on my bicycle. It’s those little yellow trash bags on Jean-Talon between metro Fabre and Iberville. It reminded me of one of my teachers showing me big green see-through trash bags from somewhere in Europe (I think it was France), that actually made people use them rather than throw trash on the ground.

You’d think see-through trash bags or simply trash bags would look bad, but that really only applies to the big black ones. In green or in yellow, it looks rather nice. Two colors that are completely natural with green being nature itself and yellow representing the sun. They are welcoming colors. The concept actually works; people do throw stuff in those bags instead of the ground. I went accross all of them on Jean-Talon and not one of them was empty.

Part of the reason why the green bags someplace in Europe work is because it’s strange, unusual and also because the bags are emptied quite often. I hope they also do that with these yellow bags and I also hope that it will spread in other municipalities as well.

Montreal is quite clean when compared to other cities in the world. These bags will just make the city cleaner.

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