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TheReview Wednesday, February 6, 1991

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small haulers hurt as garbage tipping fees skyrocket

A recent 50 per cent increase in
garbage tipping fees at the Hart-
land Road landfill is being passed
on to most Peninsula residents
through their curbside garbage
pick-up bill.

And at least one small garbage
hauler has changed its billing prac-
tices to allow for increases every
three months, as the Capital
Regional District revealed plans to
hike the fee again in July.

“It had quite an effect on us last
time,” said Ron Schwab of Ron’s
Disposal. “Last year we were
operating at a deficit.”

The CRD hopes that increased
uipping fees will not be felt as hard
because recycling programs are
intended to reduce the flow of
garbage to the landfill.

But Schwab says his company
still dumps about 300 tonnes of
garbage each month, about average
for winter months.

“A lot of people think that by
recycling, our intake will go
down,’ Schwab said. “That’s a
popular misconception.”

Ron’s Disposal’s residential rate
increased to about $12 per month
Jan. 1, from $9.75 and it will
likely increase again July 1

Last year, Ron’s billed its cus-
tomers yearly, offering a discount
for pre-paying. But a mid-year

‘tipping fee increase almost put the
company out of business.

“They said no more increase,
then they raised the rate,” Schwab
said.

The company is back on track
now with rates that reflect its
actual cost, but some customers
are choosing to dispose of their
garbage in other ways because of
the higher expense.

“Some people take their gar-
bage and dump it in a bin at their
work, Schwab said. Older people
on limited incomes, with a rela-
tively small amount of garbage,
have canceled curbside garbage
pick-up entirely, relying on recy-
cling and composting.

Residential taxpayers in the
Town of Sidney, however, feel little
effect from the tipping fee increase
because the Town looks after gar-
bage pick-up through contract.
That contract, with City Waste
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before the most recent tipping fee
increases, although City Waste has
asked to renegotiate the contract.

Laidlaw Waste Systems custom-
ers will have to absorb the hikes in
lipping fees but there have been
complaints, said Henry Westle,
Operating manager of the firm’s
Sidney branch.

“We're not fond of the big
Jumps being taken. As a business,
we Ic passing it on to our custom-
ers and it doesn’t make for good
relations with them,” Westle said.

The CRD tipping fee rose on
Jan. 1 to $45 per tonne, compared
to $30 per tonne in December
1990.

And further proposed major
hikes, starting July 1, will make it
far more expensive for Peninsula
residents to dispose of their gar-
bage, he said.

“I feel for us and for the cus-
tomer, too. We have a lot of people
complain about the hefty
increase,’ Westle said.

A spokesman for BFI Waste
Systems Lid, located in Central
Saanich, refused to comment on
the issue.

Capital Regional District board
chairman Frank Leonard said
increases in tipping fees will likely
be imposed once every four
months for an indefinite length of
time.

But the hikes make sense as
they encourage people, particular-
ly corporate dumpers, to recycle
more, he said.

~The hikes certainly should
have an impact on the Peninsula in
terms of wallet-induced recy-
cling,” Leonard said.

With a proposed July 1 increase

more than doubling the cost of
dumping garbage to S65 per tonne,
compared to the $30 in late 1990,
big firms will be forced to recycle
more, he said.

Telephone 655-

“People who create most of the
waste will incur most of the cost,”
Leonard said.

It’s a fairer system than that

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