Unsecured trucks the biggest source of highway garbage in Metro Vancouver

They find rifles and handguns tossed away by panicked criminals. Bags of marijuana, too. Bottles of booze ditched in advance of police road blocks. Cell phones, wallets, even loose bills in denominations of $5, $20, occasionally as high as $100. “There is nothing we don’t find,” said Raj Kahlon of Alpine Landscaping, a company hired to collect garbage from major provincial highways in the Vancouver region. But for all the roadside oddities, debris from unsecured and improperly tarped loads on commercial trucks easily represents the largest source of garbage on major highways in the area.

Larry Pynn