Recycling is set to double during the next ten years for at least some of Canadians householders.
Within the next decade Montreal residents are committed to more than doubling their recycling efforts. This will be done through major changes in the way the householders recycle their waste.
The city is set to approve a ten year recycling treatment commitment contract. This has been valued at $12.6 million, and will mark the beginning of a change in recycling habits throughout the area.
Rebuts Solides Canadiens Inc., have won the contract that will commit the city to doubling the amount of waste that they recycle over the next ten years.
Montreal and the fifteen municipalities are responsible for 103,000 tones of refuse that are put into the recycling containers.
Householders will be committed to collectively diverting 225,000 tonnes of refuse from the landfill sites to recycling plants.
A plan that is still under discussion will contain an organic waste pick up component. These are already active in such cities as Toronto and Halifax.
The municipal taxpayer will have a financial stake in increasing the recycling effort. This is in addition to the benefits that will come to the environment. There will be a profit sharing shceme which will commit Rebuts Solides Canadiens to split any revenue from the sale of recycled materials.
Councillor Alan DeSousa said that “We’re on the cusp of some significant events, all of which will ultimately lead us down the path of greater waste diversion,” adding that “This recycling contract is one component - but a significant component - of an overall waste-management program that will be rolled out as fast as possible.”
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