Today, as I was driving to work I found myself following behind a pick-up truck full of garbage bags and as I began to wonder about what could possibly be disposed of in all these garbage bags and where the driver was headed with all of it, one rolled off the pile, crashed down onto the road in front of me and scattered its 'inners'. What a mess! The garbage now spread across both lanes of traffic, the pick-up truck driver still heading down the highway, and all the cars behind playing 'dodgeball' on their way to work.
That's where news like the following bring a message of hope to these common day mishaps:
In February, The District of Mission implemented a surcharge of $5 on unsecured loads, an effort to reduce the amount of litter found on access roads to the Mission landfill. This surcharge resultued in the percentage of unsecured loads dropping from approximately 55% to 31% within two months, and to 11% over the following three months. In October 2009, the surchage will rise to $10 to futher reduce the % of uncovered loads to the landfill (funds collected from the surcharge are used to support clean-up (litter) activities).
Article in The Mission Record - October 01, 2009
