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If you haven't heard yet or if you haven't recieved your Green Bin on your front door Step, the Green Bin program is part of the City of Ottawa’s long-term plan for solid waste management.  Many people have concerns about how this will affect us at tax time and with the media putting out false information, homeowners were led in a negative direction.  Even though when you really think about it, this is a good system to be putting into place when it has everything to do with helping out our environment and helping to reduce the waste that were  putting into our landfills.

The proposed system would see costs for the green-bin program paid by homeowners through a service charge attached to the June property-tax bill. Currently that bill just has an $86 garbage-collection fee. Under the new system, that service bill would also include $41 for blue- and black-box recycling (currently paid from property taxes) and $68 for the green-bin service.  The annual solid-waste bill would add up to $195 per household while rural residents and businesses won’t have the Green Bin service therefore they will not have to pay for it.

Check out the link below to get more information on the green Bin Program.

http://www.greenbinottawa.ca/Home.aspx