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Curbside Organic Program on Hold

Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:10

Oxford County will not being going forward with a curbside organics program at this time. Council voted Wednesday night to extend their backyard composting program instead. Director of Public Works Rob Walton says statistically, the best of these organics programs only get 75 percent participation when they get to be a mature program so it's a lot of money for not much gain. "In the rural areas we don't think we're collecting a lot of this material anyways because a lot of people either compost or throw this material into their fields or feed it to their animals or whatever so the thought of driving up and down the country roads to collect source separated organics is a lot of carbon footprint if you're not going to collect as much." "In Oxford County if plus or minus a third of the residents live out on the country roads so that's a much different situation then the streets of Woodstock, Ingersoll or Tillsonburg. Even to consider what the villages are within the townships they have a concentration of residential population in a small area so you have to drive a long way to get there even if you don't do the places in between." With a cost of $1.3 to 2 million dollars per year for the program, council decided encouraging residents to do their own backyard composting was much more cost affective. Council also approved 1-year extensions on their current garbage and large item pick-up and recycling contracts.

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