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It’s becoming more difficult for anyone around city hall to deny that the rules for garbage pickup will change in the coming years.
“At this point, nothing is ruled out, nothing is ruled in,” Coun. David Chernushenko, the environment chair on council, said this week.
“I think with the lay of the land changing so dramatically provincially, I think we’ll want to look at everything from clear bags to tags to a very, very long list, but no one should read into that that the city or council wants to pick any one of those, but rather what’s the most effective tool to get us to the diversion targets that we want and meet our greenhouse gas emission targets as well?”
After the October municipal election, city staff will ramp up work on a report to the new council on a refreshed waste plan with the goal of getting more people to recycle. It’s critical, timely work — the province wants to cut down on garbage going to landfills, and, obviously, so does the city. On top of that, the city will be re-tendering garbage collection contracts in 2020.
The report will come to council in 2019. “We will be looking at a whole host of options at that time,” according to Marilyn Journeaux, the city’s director of solid waste services.
The options could also include bag limits and limits on the size of garbage containers. It seems all ideas are on the table.
The green bin program is the obvious place to make improvements, with only about half of residents separating their organic waste and wheeling their green bins to the curbs. The city thinks that allowing residents to use plastic bags in their green bin will increase the participation rate.
What will make more people recycle?
Reducing the number of permitted trash bags from the current six? Making them pay more to send garbage to the Trail Road dump? Proving there’s no recyclable material in their trash bags?
The city plans to commission research on waste issues to gauge public opinion.
Nanos Research did a study for the city in December 2010, almost a full year after the green bin program launched. You’ll see that schemes where households would pay per bag weren’t very popular. (Apparently there was some research commissioned in 2012, too, but I haven’t seen a report released publicly).
Coercing people into use their recycling bins isn’t something you’ll likely hear about on the campaign trail leading up to the municipal election, but it’s helpful to know that the city has something brewing. It’s never a bad idea to ask candidates what they think about these ideas because if they’re elected, they’ll need to take a position during the next term of council.
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“At this point, nothing is ruled out, nothing is ruled in,” Coun. David Chernushenko, the environment chair on council, said this week.
“I think with the lay of the land changing so dramatically provincially, I think we’ll want to look at everything from clear bags to tags to a very, very long list, but no one should read into that that the city or council wants to pick any one of those, but rather what’s the most effective tool to get us to the diversion targets that we want and meet our greenhouse gas emission targets as well?”
After the October municipal election, city staff will ramp up work on a report to the new council on a refreshed waste plan with the goal of getting more people to recycle. It’s critical, timely work — the province wants to cut down on garbage going to landfills, and, obviously, so does the city. On top of that, the city will be re-tendering garbage collection contracts in 2020.
The report will come to council in 2019. “We will be looking at a whole host of options at that time,” according to Marilyn Journeaux, the city’s director of solid waste services.
The options could also include bag limits and limits on the size of garbage containers. It seems all ideas are on the table.
The green bin program is the obvious place to make improvements, with only about half of residents separating their organic waste and wheeling their green bins to the curbs. The city thinks that allowing residents to use plastic bags in their green bin will increase the participation rate.
What will make more people recycle?
Reducing the number of permitted trash bags from the current six? Making them pay more to send garbage to the Trail Road dump? Proving there’s no recyclable material in their trash bags?
The city plans to commission research on waste issues to gauge public opinion.
Nanos Research did a study for the city in December 2010, almost a full year after the green bin program launched. You’ll see that schemes where households would pay per bag weren’t very popular. (Apparently there was some research commissioned in 2012, too, but I haven’t seen a report released publicly).
Coercing people into use their recycling bins isn’t something you’ll likely hear about on the campaign trail leading up to the municipal election, but it’s helpful to know that the city has something brewing. It’s never a bad idea to ask candidates what they think about these ideas because if they’re elected, they’ll need to take a position during the next term of council.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
查看原文...
