Regina has no curb-side recycling program in place. Residents can pay $93/yr for a private recycler to pick up by-weekly.
Hi Louis [Browne],
I hope you had a good Summer.Assuming Regina makes 1/4 as much waste as Edmonton, we should get $2,000,000 to employ people who sort/sell trash at our landfill.
I’ve been realizing some of this salvaging potential for years at the dumpster instead of at the landfill, but there’s no reason the city can’t do it too, and Edmonton is proving it for me. While council is dickering over the curbside plan for single family homes, there are still hundreds of dumpsters going to the landfill each week that need sorting to realize the benefits seen in Edmonton. It means potentially dozens of green jobs that you could create within months.
[Saskboy]
P.S. In addition to this project, the City could also promote collaborative consumption as realized through websites like usedregina.com, Free Cycle, Full Circle, kijiji.ca, etc., as places for people to trade and sell their unwanted, but usable materials.
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I should note the reply I got did not address this idea at all, it talked about the existing, underwhelming curb side plan.