Residential waste diversion and curbside recycling was once again on the city council meeting’s agenda. In a close decision, city council voted against construction of a material recycling facility and implementation of curbside recycling. While some residents were disappointed, others were pleased.
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It’s very fortunate for the people of Lethbridge there were five people representing us that got the message. Capturing a miniscule amount of recyclables (6.7%) heading to the landfill from the residential component would likely have had no benefit to saving landfill space or to the environment when the immense carbon footprint of implementation, is factored in.
The vast majority of people have absolutely no idea at all about, the costs, the benefits, or the long term sustainability, of curbside recycling run by a Union forcing everyone to participate, and nothing about it was democratic either.
Furthermore it should be better known to everyone interested in having their organics and recycables picked up at the door or curb that Lethbridge does have and has had curbside recycling available to them for years. Check the phone book and if you are house bound, have no car, or for whatever reason you can’t or don’t want to take your refuse to the depots, you have plenty of low cost options available. And – bonus – you’ll be paying much less than if Spearman, Carlson, Parker, Mearns and their Union friends in W&RS and City Infrastructure had their way with you – nothing about the Mearns proposal would have resulted in a $5.50 dollar charge on your bill – for very long.
I don’t see why we can’t build the facility for recycling now many people already recycle.Curbside recycling would be good if it is not just going into the dump, but truly being recycled in a plant which would employ people and save the enviroment.