Why aren large families living in single-family houses offered preferential treatment in the new Bins Program?
The new volume-based rate system for garbage is based directly on the quantity of waste set out for collection and disposal and is modeled after other utilities such as water, electricity and natural gas. For example, a large family will use more water than a single neighbour next door and consequently will have a larger water bill. The cost to the City to collect and dispose of the waste generated by a large family is more than the cost to manage the single neighbour’s smaller quantity of waste and this is reflected in the volume-based rate system. In addition, the Solid Waste Management Fees that will be charged fund all of the other diversion programs. For example, the cost to process and compost organics from the Green Bin Program is quite expensive and it costs the City more to manage the greater volume of organics generated by a large family. Are black/green garbage bags still to be used or is garbage to be placed loose in the bin? You have the option of placing your garbage in a
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- Don’t poor families living off subsistence agriculture need large families to help them with their labours and to ensure that the parents will have enough children to support them in their old age?
- Why aren large families living in single-family houses offered preferential treatment in the new Bins Program?
- Can a large container be shared with a group of houses, with the families sharing the expense?
