Georgian Bluffs residents will have to pay more for garbage pick-up starting next month.
Council has approved the 2023 Fees and Charges bylaw, which increases the cost of each bag tag to $2.25, from $2 as of March 1. However, the old bag tag will not expire and can still be used.
“The fees collected from Bag Tags are used to offset the costs of the curbside garbage collection program, which we expect to be more than $500,000 in 2023,” said Director of Community Services Niall Lobley. “The benefit to using bag tags is that this ‘Pay as you throw’ system rewards residents who reduce how much waste they produce by refusing, reusing, recycling and composting to send less trash to the landfill; something we all want to get better at.”
People can head to the Georgianbluffs.ca to find out how to reduce waste.
