Halton's Solid Waste Management Strategy aims to boost waste diversion, extend landfill life, and reduce emissions through key initiatives and public consultation.
Since the introduction of the Green Cart program, enhanced Blue Box program and expanded services at the Halton Waste Management Site, we have increased our waste diversion rate by more than 15 per cent and extended the life of the landfill by more than 30 years.
However, there are still areas where we can improve our diversion rate as a community.
Building on the strengths of our Region, provide a sustainable, equitable and responsible waste management service that efficiently serves our community, protects our environment and is responsive to change.
The Region has developed a Solid Waste Management Strategy to enhance the current waste management system in the community. The Strategy aims to help reduce the amount of garbage produced, extend the life of the landfill and address climate change by lowering carbon emissions.
The Strategy identifies several key initiatives that would be implemented to:
The key initiatives would be implemented incrementally and are anticipated to result in an estimated average annual cost increase of $21 per household. A comprehensive cost breakdown can be found in the full Solid Waste Management Strategy (PDF file).
The Strategy includes key initiatives to enhance and improve the Region’s waste management programs and services. These initiatives consider ways that we can all work together to make a difference, including the community as whole, single-family and multi-residential households, businesses and the Region’s solid waste system.
To help support residents in reducing household waste, the Strategy identifies six key initiatives that will help improve waste services for residents. The initiatives will encourage households to participate in our waste programs and find more ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
An automated wheeled cart program aims to:
A feasibility study will include:
These service improvements have the potential to:
The Strategy includes other initiatives that will support enhancements to waste management in Halton. The initiatives below provide opportunities to further reduce community waste, enhance waste management and landfill operations, and help address climate change by reducing carbon emissions.
These supporting enhancements have the potential to:
Between November 8 and December 10, 2021, we asked the community to provide input on Halton’s proposed Solid Waste Management Strategy. Residents were invited to take an online survey or participate in virtual Public Information Centres (PICs), which were held on November 23, 24 and 30. You can view a recording of the virtual PIC held on November 24, 2021 here (YouTube video).
Thank you to everyone who participated and provided input! Your comments and feedback were helpful in developing the Solid Waste Management Strategy.