Bad news always comes on Fridays in the media world, so there it was on Friday last week, the long-awaited decision from Victoria on whether to approve Metro Vancouver’s new bylaw 280. That was a measure designed to stop garbage trucks from taking waste out of the region to get it buried at cheaper landfills elsewhere.
There will be more fallout from this, I’m sure. In the meantime, waste haulers and companies wanting to build new-style recycling facilities are delighted, Metro Vancouver politicians are livid.
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1 Tiktaalik // Oct 21, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Does this have immediate implications to the upcoming food scraps ban? Could waste disposal companies now go to multi-unit buildings and commercial building owners and suggest the option of ignoring the food scraps ban in favour of just sending garbage to Abbotsford?
2 Voice of Reason // Oct 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm
From the earlier article by Frances:
“At the moment, Vancouver charges $108 a ton to dump garbage into its landfill or incinerator. In comparison, estimate Metro officials, it costs a hauler only $70 a ton to truck waste to Abbotsford and then put it on a train to the Rabanco landfill in the United States.”
The question that should be asked is why is it so much cheaper to send the garbage to the US and maybe Metro Vancouver should be sending all the garbage there.