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Why a pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system makes sense.

Publication: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary
Publication Date: 01-AUG-05
Format: Online - approximately 624 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Why a pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system makes sense.(COMMUNIQUE)

Article Excerpt
For release at 10:00 EDT Thursday, August 4

Toronto, Aug. 4 -- Because not enough Canadian communities charge residents for garbage disposal based on the amounts that they send into the municipal system, the environmental and fiscal costs of solid waste management are excessively high, says a C.D. Howe Institute Commentary.

In Taking Out the Trash: How To Allocate the Costs Fairly, authors Maria Kelleher, Janet Robins and John Dixie say that most Canadian communities send unnecessarily large quantities of waste to landfills; residents would be better off if they produced less...

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