The Our Town - Clarenville Blog by Paul Tilley

It may sound odd, but the time has come for this community to ask for less of a service.   Specifically, we need less garbage collection.   We need action on reducing the amount of garbage that we throw out each week – because our learned wastefulness will soon hit us hard in the pocketbook. Councillor Rod Nicholl raised the issue of waste reduction during a meeting of Council last Nov 20.   ( November 20, 2012 listen beginning at the 2:00 minute mark)   Nichol pointed out that with the reformatting of how garbage is handled in NL, Clarenville taxpayers who have gotten used to twice weekly and unlimited volume of garbage collection, will soon have to pay for collection by the tonne – this will mean big bills if our wasteful habits continue.   (Government is closing dumps and all garbage will be moved to one of three dumps across the island – Clarenville’s will be headed for St. John's/Robin Hood Bay).   Nicholl argued that the Town should develop and communicate a strategy n