As of January 1st, blue box program changes
The City of Port Colborne, as with other Ontario cities, is considering its options now that blue box materials won't be picked up at businesses on January 1st, but residential will continue.
Producers of cardboard, or plastic bottles are now responsible for the cost, no longer sharing it with the province.
Mayor Bill Steele pointed out businesses in a building won't have service, but residents will in the same building. "A truck going down Charlotte Street, picks up at all the houses, it it came this way, if it went east on Charlotte, as soon as it hits the business area, it can't use the same truck to pick up the same type of material, it has to be a different truck. We're trying to get clarification on that."
City staff say the region could pick up the cost, or they'll look at other outside sources, at a cost.
The Mayor noted what people may start doing. "If you want to see it dumped on the side of the road, or, if someone like Bill Steele at C.M. Steele Insurance, is just going to take it and put it in my box at home, at it gets picked up there. I don't have a lot at my business, but Frank could at his, because he'll have cardboard coming out of his ears."
Councillors also expressed concern this will increase the amount of garbage at landfill as people just start throwing material away.
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