Woodstock city council has voted to upgrade the city's recycling program. The current program is already ahead of many Ontario municipalities, but has still not yet reached the province's goal of diverting 60 per cent of material from the landfill. The current diversion rate is 54 per cent, that could go up to 56 when the next steps are taken. City Engineer Harold de Haan "System one is what we're currently doing. So basically system one is just keeping our activities the same as what they are now. System two is increase what they throw in the blue box more and the way to do that was to one educate people, so make them aware of what we all accept and also to get multi-residential buildings to recycle also." Blue Boxes will also be more readily available. There's also a system 3 and 4 that the city will be considering in the future that could limit the number of garbage bags you can put out to the road, create and enviro depot and to start collecting organic materials. The city will begin to investigate those options this year.
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