Why did the municipality implement mandatory separation?
The City of Moncton has been promoting the Wet/Dry Waste Separation program since it was implemented as a voluntary measure in 1999. As a result of our community’s commitment to the environment, and in particular, recycling, mandatory separation was adopted on October 1, 2006. The residential mandatory waste separation program has been a huge success, now boasting a 99.9 per cent rate of participation. The benefits of this program are irrefutable. Our community’s participation in the wet/dry program is extending the life of the Westmorland-Albert landfill and dramatically increasing the amount of material being reused and recycled. This not only reduces our community’s carbon footprint, but also reduces the overall cost of providing waste collection services. Presently, more than 51 per cent of residential waste collected is recycled or composted. In fact, in 2007, the City of Moncton’s mandatory Wet/Dry Waste Separation program helped the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation rec
