This week, City Council will deal with limits on the number of garbage bags that can be placed curbside. Our City’s waste diversion initiatives include the Blue Box recycling program and the Green Cart organics/food composting program. These programs accommodate most of the waste discarded by households. Additional waste diversion initiatives such as white goods (appliance recycling), electronics recycling, household hazardous waste collection and others are also available to residents.
Garbage and recycling collection services are paid for through our rents and property taxes. The resale of City-collected recyclable/compostable materials may generate revenue to offset the related collection costs. Garbage bags, however, consume even more of our taxes when they end up in expensive landfill sites. Households not recycling or generating more than one bag of garbage per week reduce the lifespan of existing landfill sites and are likely sending revenue-generating recyclable materials to landfill at an additional cost to everyone.
Let’s Call City Hall and let them know we support a one garbage bag limit.
Call 905-546-CITY (2489) during regular business hours. (Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4 pm).
Call 905-546-2730 outside regular business hours. (Councillors’ reception).
Send an email to HamiltonCivicLeague@gmail.com to confirm you made a call to City Hall. We will update the HamiltonCivicLeague.org website with the number of calls confirmed. The Hamilton Civic League welcomes proposals for future Let’s Call City Hall campaigns.
Our previous Let’s Call City Hall campaign, which is detailed below, resulted in two CONFIRMED phone calls. Exponential growth is what we are seeking each and every week, so make a call to City Hall this week and encourage your contacts to do the same.
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