Wait, the Ford government is doing something……….good?
I need to sit down for a moment.
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how is privatization ever good? Do you think you'll get a tax break for a private company being told to do this? im genuinely curious.
can you imagine being told you can put out max 5lbs of paper, everything else is charged at $x rate/lb or whatever.. only being able to use their specially fabricated that only they sell, bins?
I honestly don't think there is anything good about this, but I may be wrong. who knows. regardless, I'm keeping an eye out for Metro Compactor Service to reappear on some scandal involving Miller Waste Solutions Group which they recently just acquired... the same company that helped set this whole thing up.
well they did have help from Circular Materials which is a not-for-profit organization thankfully...however they are governed by the same companies that supply products and packaging to consumers in Ontario. may I refer you to the board members of evil corporations. These are some of the ~~companies~~ individuals who made this decision, along with the Ford govt.
I just found all those whole typing this message, so take what I say with a grain of salt but personally... I trust none of those companies to properly handle my services, let alone the garbage they produce.
It means the companies that are responsible for producing these products are the ones responsible for dealing with the packaging they produced.
still don't trust any of these companies to provide me with services without treating me like a way to profit... no company does things without gutting quality and maximizing profits, and now it's being forced upon us by the govt with no other options.
It’s not like things are actually being recycled now. Most just ends up in landfill.
How the heck are they recycling plastic bags...
It’s a bit of an oversimplification, but the bags are melted down in large quantities and then chopped up into plastic pellets which can be used to make new plastic bags.
So I guess this becomes a user tax at the point of sale then, and we can expect to save three or four hundred bucks on our property taxes this year?