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April 03, 2007
Pay-As-You-Throw
The mayor of Toronto is proposing garbage fees.I think this is a brilliant idea, regardless of whether or not anyone thinks it's fair. I do understand that a family of four will definitely produce more garbage than that of a person living alone. People shouldn't be penalized for having a family, blah, blah, blah. This is beside the point.
The ultimate benefactor of hitting people where it hurts (more often than not, their pocketbooks) in this case, is the environment. If people have to start paying for their refuse, they'll start being more conscientious about what they throw away. Paying attention to what we dispose of is better for the environment and less taxing on natural resources. Better for the environment means everyone wins.
Toronto has the added advantage of green bins (for compost) and blue bins (for recycling). There are no proposed fees around those two bins and most everything that we dispose of can go into one or the other.
Toronto's waterfront may have been made from trash, but not everything we produce is that beneficial.
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