Ottawa city councillors spent about an hour Wednesday debating the future of the city's waste management policy and settled on a plan directing staff to explore technological options like incineration.
that would see residents pay a fee for exceeding a set number of tagged garbage bags per year. While the bag tag policy has yet to rise to committee, let alone council, a motion by Coun. Allan Hubley, seconded by Coun. David Brown, requested staff study other waste diversion technology and report to council in the fall as part of the draft solid waste master plan.
The motion does not approve or guarantee any particular option. It does ask staff to "give preference to potential solutions that could provide heat and or electricity for improving housing affordability for our residents" and it also directs staff to prepare a feasibility study and business case for council's preferred option by the end of the term.
"Regardless the technology selected at the end, whether it's a disposal site, whether it's an incinerator or whether it's a waste-to-energy facility, there will still be a requirement to increase our diversion," said public works general manager Alain Gonthier. Gonthier told council Hubley's motion reinforces that technological options will be included in the draft solid waste master plan.
"We didn’t zero in on incineration. Just outside our municipal boundary in the Arnprior area, they're using steam instead of incineration," he said.
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