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Central moves to limit waste through bag tags and limits

CENTRAL MANITOULIN—Council continues to wrestle with the challenges presented by the closure of Central Manitoulin’s only remaining landfill. Unhappy with the results of a request for proposals (RFP) for the closure of the Providence Bay landfill, council voted to re-tender the RFP and has moved several motions aimed at implementing operational changes at the landfill scheduled to take place on June 1.

Among those changes will be the implementation of a bag-tag program required by the contract currently under negotiation with the Dodge Landfill in Espanola where the community’s garbage is to be hauled, revised fee schedules and the temporary suspension of acceptance of large loads (more than 11 cubic yards) of construction and demolition material at the Providence Bay landfill site as of June 1.

The cost of tags for bags of garbage exceeding two at a residence has yet to be determined.

Council has also directed staff to gather data from service groups regarding options for managing garbage at multi-day events held in the municipality. Single-day events are not as yet impacted by the moves.

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Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is a staff writer at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.