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WINNIPEG – Mayor Sam Katz’s inner circle has voted in favour of a plan that will allow residents of northwest Winnipeg to supersize garbage carts.
Earlier this month, city council’s public works committee rejected a plan to allow residents who have Winnipeg’s new 240-litre garbage carts to swap them for a bigger cart or obtain two carts.
Today, council’s executive policy committee voted unanimously in favour of allowing northwest Winnipeg residents to pay annual fees of $33 to swap a 240-litre cart for a 360-litre cart, $93 to get two 240-litre carts or $113 to have two 360-litre carts.
The water and waste department wants to charge annual fees to recover the cost of collecting extra garbage. Mayor Sam Katz, who had previously said he would rather see this fee charged just once, voted for the annual fees.
EPC also voted in favour of a plan to pick up yard waste in northwest Winnipeg for four-week periods in the spring and fall.
Environmental groups and some councillors are calling on the city to pick up all organic waste – including kitchen scraps.
City waste managers consider the northwest yard-waste plan a stopgap measure in advance of a more comprehensive organic waste plan.
EPC also voted for a new city-wide residential recycling contract that will see blue boxes replaced with rolling, 240-litre blue bins this September.
The 7.5-year contract with National Waste Services is worth approximately $35 million.
Charleswood Coun. Bill Clement voted against the plan because he believes it will lock the city into a recycling contract that could make it more difficult to devise a comprehensive waste-minimization plan.
Several Non-EPC councillors have called on the city to create a comprehensive waste-management plan instead of making piecemeal changes to garbage, recycling and organic waste pickup.
North Kildonan Coun. Jeff Browaty has vowed to oppose the proliferation of rolling garbage carts to any other area of Winnipeg, conceding he made a mistake last year, when he voted in favour of the carts for northwest Winnipeg.
The amendments to the cart plan mean it is no longer a good deal for the city, he said Tuesday.
Like Clement, Browaty also opposes rolling recycling bins.
In 2009, only opposition councillors voted against the cart plan. Browaty usually votes along with the council majority.
All three waste-related proposals come before city council as a whole on Feb. 24.