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Don’t trash the new waste plan<\/h3>\n

For those of you disappointed with the new garbage collection system city council approved by a vote of 26-18 on June 20: if you support the goal to divert 70 per cent of Toronto’s garbage, then you’re just getting what you asked for.<\/p>\n

Though most of us are inclined to believe in a magical world that accepts our diverted recycling and organic waste free of charge (allowing us to live free of guilt, no less!), the fact is that diverting our trash from the landfill costs money. And as you may recall from previous articles that have run in the pages of EYE WEEKLY and elsewhere, the city doesn’t exactly have a lot of extra cash floating around (see: the street-furniture contract, budget talks, the city’s starving planning department).<\/p>\n

Contrary to belief among the Karen Stintz<\/strong>s and Denzil Minnan-Wong<\/strong>s of the world, the $54 million that the new pay-according-to-the-size-of-the-bin-you-take-to-the-curb system is expected to generate isn’t a frivolous tax grab. Instead, the plan is to use the new revenue to pay for the infrastructure needed to deal with our growing diverted waste. This includes: increasing the capacity to deal with the 526,000 apartment dwellers who will finally be given a green bin; buying new, larger recycling containers with wheels; adjusting recycling facilities so that we can add Styrofoam and plastic bags to the blue bin; and treating waste before it’s disposed of in the landfill.<\/p>\n

On top of all this, the new system should help Toronto reach its 70 per cent waste diversion goal by 2010 (in total, 250,000 more tonnes of garbage per year are expected to be diverted). Greenhouse-gas savings will be equivalent to taking more than 100,000 cars off the street; new jobs will be created, and the life of our landfill extended (meaning we won’t have to think about spending money on a new place to stash our trash).<\/p>\n

The Stinzes and Minnan-Wongs will also tell you that the cost to the taxpayer of this new system is far too onerous. But as Pam McConnell pointed out, households who opt for the largest bin, which means they’d be paying $151 more than they do now, will only be charged an extra $2.90 a week for all those increased services. As McConnell would say: isn’t it worth an extra three bucks a week to have a future for our children?<\/p>\n

Sprawl monitor<\/h3>\n

The Toronto Star has reported that enough land zoned for development has been bought up for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153another two decades worth of power centres, business parks and subdivisions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In other words, putting an end to urban sprawl over the next two decades could be mighty difficult. As University of Waterloo planning expert Pierre Filion was quoted as saying in the Toronto Star: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you want to have an impact in 15 or 20 years, you have to start acting now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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Spacing’s<\/em> managing editor Dale Duncan writes a weekly column<\/a> for Eye Weekly<\/em> focused on City Hall. Each week we post her columns on the Spacing Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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