MORE REGIONAL "PUBLIC CONSULTATION" ON WASTE DISPOSAL

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Region weighs its waste options". According to this story the region only has three options namely building another unpopular landfill, incineration or mechanical biological treatment which consists of sorting and composting waste. Silly me but at first blush I wonder why we couldn't sort the waste; send more to recycling, compost what we can and then incinerate the rest. This doesn't seem to have made their short list. Also I know for decades there have been advocates of the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle school. An awful lot of our waste is and has been simply excessive packaging.

I would agree that landfills are a horrible way to deal with garbage. So called "engineered" landfills may be better than the old style of throw everything in, cover it up and hope for the best but not by all that much. Landfills stink, leak and are a permanent ongoing threat to groundwater, even "engineered" ones.

So called public input sessions will be held June 10-13 (next week) at the following locations in order namely 5-8 pm. at the region's community services 150 Main St. Cambridge, 3-6 pm. Kitchener City Hall, 5-8 pm. Wilmot Rec Complex and the last on June 13, 5-8 pm. at Knox presbyterian Church, 50 Erb St. Waterloo.