Should there be a fine for people who do not recycle in Toronto. why? ?

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SteveN

There is a saying that "...you can attract more flies with honey than with vinegar..." which goes to say that if you provide a reward rather than a punishment, people are more likely to be receptive and positive than approach it negatively.

How would you judge someone should be fined? If they refuse to recycle anything? Do they still get a fine if they recycle bottles and cans, but not plastics and paper? And what if the garbagemen find one or two recyclable materials in their trash? Does that justify a $50 fine?

Everyone already pays for the garbage collection with their taxes. The more waste we produce, the more it costs the city each year for that service, and the contract the next year goes up. Everyone's municipal taxes pay for that service. So in a way, if you are recycling and your neighbour is not, he or she is costing you money on your tax bill at the end of the year.

What I would like to see is a reward system come into play for residents that do recycle, even if it was just a rebate toward your taxes. For example, the recycling trucks have specific routes which could be analyzed and evaluated by the city. The city would look at all areas (each truck route) of the city that has recycling in place, rank them based on how much recycling they did compared to the amount of waste produced (in the garbage trucks) and give them a scorecard of A,B,C,D,or E. Households in the areas of the city that did better would get a better municipal tax credit. Areas that did worse, would get no credit.

I think that this would offer more incentive to people to recycle, and would make residents in areas that do not have recycling ask the city to implement it in their area so they could also qualify for a credit.

And since this would not be based on one house vs another, or in apartments where you can't tell who through out what, the city would not have to track garbage/recycling by individual home, and you are not likely to see people "stealing" other people's recycling material just so they get a bigger credit! And the peer pressure would have neighbours working on the stubborn ones to try and get the better credits at the end of the tax year.

tkron31

Maybe not so much a fine, but the trash guys could reasonably charge per pound of trash created. I heard some cities do something like that, a flat rate for so much garbage and then a surcharge for anything over that. That would theoretically encourage more recycling.

hailfeal

in a perfect world sure. we have to come quite a bit further in our responsibility to recycle before proposing something like that. we're starting to get the hang of it. there are still people out there that don't really understand recycling

curicta85

i think it should,because i'll have to carry my own mug around the city so i can get a cup of coffee. And i always recycle,it's not fair!
And what pisses me off is the government telling us to turn off the light when the companies downtown have lights on all the time,24-7. And i know quite a few companies that don't recycle too. BS!

Mike T

yes b/c Toronto is disgustingly polluted
if u have time plz try my question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApOsHtJSzw6_l5jXoUsXVwTsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20081111180859AAlFpK0

Erin C

i think so. the world/ resources are at stake.
it's not even that hard. just put your recyclables in a separate bin lol

Katherine

In a sense, we do pay fines if we don't recycle. The new garbage bin program charges you for the size of garbage bin you use. The more you recyle, the less garbage you produce, thus the smaller bin you require & smaller fee you pay.

I honestly don't know why anyone wouldn't recylce - it's so easy to do, and Toronto has a fabulous waste management system with the green bin, recycling, & garbage.

Now, should there be a fine for all the garbage collectors that throw these new GIANT garbage bins all over the sidewalk when they're finished with them, blocking sidewalk access to pedestrians?

S-L-Y

i think there should be a fine cuz then ppl would recycle more.

Leon

A friend of mine told me she had researched a bit into recycling and that the manufacturing and business is such a high percentage of garbage that every home recycling would only cut it down by 2%

I don't think there should be fines but it should be made easy for people. In Toronto it is if you have the bins you can put out but many cities don't have that and so you have to figure out how you can get your recyclables to a container area where you can leave them and if you don't have a car, that can be kind of a challenge.

I think making it easy for people as well as charging for garbage by weight would be the way to go.

Chris W

no, becuase its entireley there choice.

eric53

No fine. they push this recycling thing too much and a majority of it is a scam. I live in BC and alot of stuff just goes to the dump anyway even though they say its recycled. The stuff they do recycle, they only do it because they make money from it. If they do not make money from what they recycle, they do not do it. Its all about the Money$$$$$

gary o

Only if it is a law that you must recycle.

piefkeholz

Hey! it's Toronto what were you expecting, they have a reputation to keep. It IS called "Hog Town"!

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