Scarborough condo leading way toward ‘zero waste’
Check out this link to original article, reposted below: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03/05/scarborough-condo-leading-way-toward-zero-waste.html By: David Rider City Hall Bureau Chief, Published on Sat Mar 05 2016 Toronto’s path to diverting all waste from a rapidly filling landfill might start at a Scarborough condominium. The 1,000 or so residents of Mayfair on the Green responded to skyrocketing waste fees with a multi-pronged diversion campaign. They turned the garbage chute into an organics collector, tapped city educational tools including multilingual signs and cut trash output to one dumpster every two months from one dumpster every week. “If you really talk to the people and they really understand, they will help,” says Princely Soundranayagam, the building’s superintendent who has spearheaded the transformation since 2004. “Also, put a dollar mark (of savings) in front of them.…