City tries to increase High Rise Recycling with Bin Subsidies
When I still lived at Transglobe's sprawling 6 building, 650 unit complex on Kipps Lane I tried to recycle. The problem was that after all the careful separating of materials was done I only found dirty, smelly bins overflowing with everything from items which could be recycled to plain old garbage. On top of that we were only alloted two bins for 100 rental units.
A subsidy probram introduced by Waste Diversion of Ontario and run by municipalities like London might help solve some of these problems by lowering the cost of new bins. Click here for the full story.
Now I hope this program works. I currently live in an apartment where I take care of my own recycling. It's no problem. While I was at TransGlobe I made calls to the City and ofter government offices trying to get more bins and a more efficient and sanitary system. Just before I moved I received a call from the Ministry of the Environment promising many more bins. Months later my friends who live at the complex tell me that nothing has changed.
So now we have a new system where more money will be given to Landlords to buy bins. I hope it works. We'll see.
Not only do they need more bins, they need to be made more available to persons with disabilities to get to them. Hiding the bins in the underground parking where people don't or can't go will not help the recycling.
