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Commercial waste fees to increase in 2018

Dec 1, 2017 | 12:18 PM

LETHBRIDGE – As part of a four- year operating budget for Waste and Recycling Services, the City of Lethbridge is increasing its commercial waste collection rates by four per cent as of Jan. 1, 2018.
 
At Monday’s regular meeting, council voted to give second and third readings to Bylaw 6073 and to amend the Bylaw 5724 to allow for the changes.

That means that the 2018 Landfill Tipping Fees will increase by $10 per tonne to $95 per tonne for mixed solid waste, $108/tonne for special waste, and $50 per tonne for waste soil.
 
In 2015, Council also approved a five-year Waste Diversion Policy, for the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional and Construction and Demolition sectors, with a strategy developed for a 25 per cent waste disposal reduction target by 2021, and a 45 per cent reduction by 2030.
 
The increase in 2018 tipping fees is part of that waste reduction strategy.