What happens when an extra garbage bag is dumped on your curb? This Sudbury man found out

Morning North4:37What should you do when you find an extra garbage bag at your curb?

Could Sudbury's new two-bag garbage limit be causing more illegal dumping? Erik Hunnisett found an extra garbage bag at his curb and that put him over the new two bag limit imposed by the city. He spoke about the problem with the CBC's Olivia Stefanovich.One month after Sudbury Ont.'s three-bag garbage limit was reduced to two bags, some people are starting to dump extra trash at their neighbour's curb.

Erik Hunnisett told CBC News that someone added a third garbage bag on his property last Thursday, which put him in violation of the city's new collection bylaw. 

"I was upset," Hunnisett said.

"I know the two-bag limit is in place and I was at two bags, so I didn't want to be sort of flagged by bylaw as breaking the rules."

Hunnisett avoided a bylaw infraction because he spotted the extra bag before pickup when he came home for lunch, he said.

'We're all responsible for our own trash'

Hunnisett said he put the additional garbage bag aside and contacted the city through 311. 

City staff arrived the next morning to collect the third bag and sort through the contents to find clues as to who may have left it, he said. So far, they have not identified any one.

"The one thing we did note was that 90 per cent of it was recyclable and compostable material," Hunnisett said.

City staff told Hunnisett he did the right thing by setting the extra garbage bag aside and contacting 311, he said. 

He wants others to hear his story so they know what to do if they have the same experience.

"We're all responsible for our own trash," Hunnisett said.

"Don't take it upon yourself to assume that somebody is willing to share that responsibility with you."

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