According to The Star, Toronto might start charging fees to households for garbage pickup. It is all part of a plan to reduce the amount of garbage generated in Toronto.
Toronto householders could soon be asked to choose the size of their garbage container – and be billed a monthly garbage pick-up fee according to the size of their bin.
City staff have worked up a proposal to be floated to politicians this week that would set pay-as-you-throw fees for garbage.
Householders would not be charged higher fees if they fill extra blue boxes or green bins. The idea of the fee is to encourage residents to reduce the amount of garbage going to the dump, not to penalize those who recycle or compost.
Philly should do something like this! Actually, maybe they should start some basic recycling in the city first. The
UA has been trying to get Penn to do better off-campus recycling for years, so we'll see where that leads.
~BT
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