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Originally Posted by Dan02
Is the Citys new recycling program not a step in the right direction?? Make it simple for people and they'll do it.
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The recycling program is mostly good. However, the main impetus for it was not recycling per se, but rather the political poo-storm that was going to happen very soon when the city, at our current garbage accumulation rates, is going to need another landfill opened. This council has neither the ability nor the cajones to deal with the furious NIMBYs that will pop out from their crevices when this happens.
Therefore, they will try to divert as much waste as possible to recycling so that our existing landfills will last much longer.
If city council was truly concerned about recycling, they would've included compostable material, as anaerobic decomposition of organic waste in our landfills is the #1 generator of greenhouse gases in Calgary.