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'We're going to take immediate action,' says Halifax Water after video circulates on social media

The video shows a man wearing a bright yellow Halifax Water vest tossing a coffee cup into a hole in the road that's being filled in with dirt

All Halifax Water staff will be having a discussion about littering after the utility's management saw a video circulating on social media Thursday.

The video posted to @halifaxnoise (see below) shows a man wearing a bright yellow Halifax Water vest tossing a coffee cup into a hole in the road that's being filled in with dirt.

"We're going to take immediate action," said Halifax Water spokesperson James Campbell. "One of the things we're going to do is, crews have safety talks, sometimes weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. I know one crew is having a safety talk, probably as we speak, just to address this issue."

He said the issue will be addressed with employees right across their organization.

Campbell said the littered coffee cup should have no impact on infrastructure and he hopes this incident won't affect customer faith in the utility.

"It really is just an issue where littering is not good," he said. "Our employees shouldn't be littering. Nobody should be littering."

Some on social media are calling for the man to be fined.

As for whether there will be any disciplinary action taken against the employee, Campbell said that was something he couldn't discuss.

CUPE Local 227, which represents municipal employees of Halifax Water, took to Twitter to say "we all make mistakes."

"I'm sure all of us littered at one point in our lives and while this situation wasn't ideal, those calling for the employee to be suspended or fired is a little much," said the tweet.



Source: Halifax Today

 

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Canadians, gather!

My face is about to fall into my palm. To me, this article belongs on The Beaverton. It's a paper coffee cup and a tiny plastic lid. I'd be more worried about plastic water pipe which is in direct contact with the drinking water.

 

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This is more fake social media outrage.

Look, I'm all for protecting the environment, but the people complaining about this on social media have probably never seen a construction site. Littering is not good, but throwing a cup into a 3 meter deep hole that is going to be filled with tonnes of all kinds of rubble, construction waste and building debris and then paved with asphalt, is not going to matter.

Where do people think their construction waste, which contains all sorts of random crap from demolished buildings and renovations, is going? It's either stored in a landfill or tossed into another construction hole that needs to be filled up. We literally bury our dead, store our nuclear waste underground and store massive amounts of waste in our landfills. Are people concerned about that?

Yet here we have a couple of sheltered keyboard-warriors making the life of a hard working man miserable for throwing a frikkin' coffee cup into a construction ditch.