SASKATOON The City of Saskatoon has introduced a plan to reduce the amount of waste put in the landfill, and achieve diversion rates that other Canadian municipalities are already seeing. According to the city’s director of sustainability Jeanna South, Saskatoon is seeing about 24 per cent of waste diversion from the landfill, and the solid waste diversion and reduction plan aims to greatly improve that number. “When we contribute to a clean and healthy community, we contribute to a higher quality of life,” said South. “Some of the actions that would result in diversion include introducing incentives to see better waste sorting, we look to material bans for the city landfill, we look to a construction and demolition program to encourage use of Recovery Park, we would see, potentially, a multi-unit residential organics program, a bulk waste collection program, and then potentially a textile diversion program.”
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Saskatoon city hall is rolling out a new plan aimed at diverting more waste from the landfill in order to delay, for as long as possible, the need to spend an estimated $100 million on a new one.
However, it’s not clear how much it will cost to implement the plan’s 27 “actions,” or if they will divert 70 per cent of all material from the landfill the target originally set for 2023, and unlikely to be achieved in that time frame.
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Jan 7, 2021 9:02 AM
Saskatoon is unveiling a long-term waste diversion plan that looks to take a bite out of the garbage that shouldn’t end up in the landfill.
The plan will be introduced to councillors at a committee meeting next week.
It outlines the city’s goal to divert 70 per cent of Saskatoon’s garbage away from the landfill by as early as 2030.
The city currently diverts 24 per cent of its garbage from the landfill. The national average is 45 per cent.
Jeanna South, the city’s director of sustainability, said Saskatoon could increase the diversion rate to anywhere from 41 to 54 per cent in the next two years.
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