Green bins were implement at a $17M fee for 2010 to the tax payers. The idea behind the green bins should be to better clean up our environment but they are instead put into place to prolong the life of our Trail Road landfill by 5 years. If the $17M becomes an annual fee for this service — which I don’t doubt it will — accumulated over those 5 years is $85M we could put towards building a better disposal or incineration method to deal with the garbage. After those additional 5 year we supposedly save by using the green bins we still come down to having the same problem. Needing a new landfill.

With the system the city currently has in place, we still have problems properly disposing of the plastic and paper we currently recycle, which then ends up in our land fills anyway. What do you think will happen when there are no buyers for the garbage we are sending to be composted with the green bin program. So far, I have not heard of anyone wanting to buy the compost we are paying so much for. Then again, why are we paying to supply someone else with a product they can make profit from.

As far as I have understood, Orgaworld has a 20 year contract with the city for implementing the green bin (source separated organics) program — doesn’t a 20 year contract seem a little ridiculous for something no one wants — and if we do not provided the required amount of compost as per the contract states we are required to compensate for the lack of profits that Orgaworld will make.

Does it make sense to anyone that the city is implementing a program to compost the garbage that will decompose naturally in our landfills all on its own?

I have currently heard some interesting ways the Ottawa residence are planing on using their Green Bins: Beer Cooler, Lugging bird seed around the yard, Outhouse and Sell it on Ebay.

So my question to you:
HOW DO YOU PLAN TO USE YOUR GREEN BIN?