Editorial Simcoe.com March 9 2011 We like the County of Simcoe’s decision to go to a user-pay garbage system. For those who are already doing a good job recycling it makes sense. They will no longer have to pay a waste levy for a service they don’t use. That levy is coming off the tax [&h...

New voucher system should include transportation component, Kramp says By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe March 10 2011 An impassioned plea by Midland Deputy Mayor Stephan Kramp to go slow in eliminating collection of bulky/metal item split the Corporate Services Committee right down the middle yesterday.K...

Full user pay program puts power in your hands Simcoe County news release February 25, 2011 The more you divert, the more you reduce, the more you save. While this is the basic principal behind a full user pay system—less waste means more money in your  pocket—the program signals a shift in attitude ...

Another step is needed Editorial in the Midland Mirror March 9 2011 We like the County of Simcoe’s decision to go to a user-pay garbage system. For those who are already doing a good job recycling it makes sense…. Still, what the pending change by the county won’t address is the mas...

Here we go again Letter to the Midland Free Press March 9 2011 Well here we go again.. More proof as to the incompetent people running our county. In their brilliance they have decided to cover the country side with garbage. Yes this is what will happen. People will not pay $2.00 per bag of […...

A couple of suggestions for future use of the Site 41 property are on the agenda of this week’s Performance Management Committee meeting.-Dr. William Shotyk, President and CEO of the Elmvale Foundation, will be giving a presentation on his idea to use the site for research and education. ...

Letter to Simcoe.com March 6 2011 MIDLAND – An open letter to the mayor and deputy mayor of Midland. I was very surprised to hear the county has announced that garbage will now be a user-pay collection system. The warden put out a press release in which both of you endorsed the system “because reduci...

The pros and cons of the garbage debate ...

By Michael Gennings Simcoe.com March 2 2011The County of Simcoe's plan to introduce a "user-pay" garbage pick-up system next year caused me to have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction when I first heard about it....

By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press March 1 2011Zero Waste Simcoe has endorsed the county's decision to move to a full user-pay system for curbside garbage collection.Gordon McKay, chair of the grassroots watchdog group, has described the decision as a "positive move."...