As Toronto scrambles to reduce the amount of garbage being produced, you can only shake your head to learn that people living in the city’s 5,100 multi-family dwellings (apartments, townhomes, condos, etc.) are only recycling 13% of their garbage. Can you imagine how many trucks they could take off the road going to landfill sites in Michigan if the recycling rates in those buildings was increased to 50%. As much as you can encourage people to recycle, garbage is becoming such an important, expensive and big issue, it may not be long before we see mandatory recycling and people fined for not doing enough.
