Author: Waste Watch Ottawa
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Kingston Ontario: Making Improvements to their Curbside Collection and Recycling Programs
Residents of Kingston Ontario already have their own customized/modern user pay system for curbside waste collection. Their municipality is now asking the public how to make it work better. When will Ottawa residents be offered an opportunity to express their views?
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Best Practices for Waste Diversion in Multi-Res Buildings
The purpose of this project was to test a number of communication and engagement tactics in a group of multi-residential buildings with objectives to improve diversion, reduce contamination and establish a best practice in communicating about waste management to residents living in multi-residential buildings.
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Tools of Change: Is PAYT Coming to a City Near You?
Here is a summary of how Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT or “Tag-a-Bag”) works in other cities. Note in particular that PAYT was introduced to residents in Orillia Ontario with an initial “free” annual allotment of 52 tags (one per week). This approach was used to introduce their residents to the approach.
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Federation of Canadian Municipalities Webinars
you would like to see some of the innovative approaches done in other Canadian municipalities please go to the FCM website.
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Vancouver is Canada’s Greenest City. We could learn from them?
Here is some interesting news from Vancouver and how they are dealing with waste.
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