Councillors nix oversized rolling garbage bins
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WINNIPEG — City council’s public works committee has said no thanks to the city’s offer to supersize northwest Winnipeg’s new garbage carts.
Earlier this month, the city replaced garbage cans with automated rolling carts at most homes in the city’s northwest quadrant.
But after some residents complained about the limited capacity of the 240-litre carts, the city’s water and waste department came forward with a plan to offer a second cart — or larger carts — in exchange for an annual fee.
This morning, council’s public works committee voted 2-1 against that plan, as Couns. Harry Lazarenko (Mynarski) and Dan Vandal (St. Boniface) said it will promote the generation of more garbage.
"I think this is a policy of waste maximization," Vandal said.
Committee chairman Bill Clement (Charleswood) voted in favour of the plan, which would have seen $33 a year charged for a 360-litre cart, $93 charged for two 240-litre carts or $113 charged for two of the larger carts.