(Canadians) What is municipal recycling?

Question

Do we have it in Canada? If not Do you think it should be required? could you give me some Canadian websites about recycling?

Answer 1

Municipal recycling is when the city or munipality takes the initiative in managing recyclables. The City of Edmonton, in  Alberta is a pioneer in this area.  It runs a free- to-participants recycling program involving blue bags, where consumers put a wide variety of plastic, glass and paper items out for pick-up at the same time as their garbage. It is collected separately by special trucks that come around behind the gabage trucks. If you go to the link below, you can check out all manner of city of Edmonton initiatives for reducing garbage.  They have initiatives such as re-use fairs, master composter/recycler volunteer training and numerous other initiatives that reduce garbage going to our landfills.  I'm proud of my city for doing this.

Some cities such as Calgary and Winnipeg, charge individuals extra if they want to reduce their garbage by recycling. In fact they penalize those who are the most concious of their waste.  Edmonton incorporates it in a universal fee that is part of the utility bill. We also have city composting of all garbage waste that is compostable, but we also encourage people to take their compostables out ahead of time and compost them in backyard composters.  It helps that  Alberta is mostly rat-free.