Solid Waste Master Plan

The city should look at other cities around the world to see if they have good methods of waste management.Is o waste feasible!

Ottawa is one million people much less than say Montreal or Toronto. Maybe a private company to help go through the different waste and dispose of them.

Biodiesel - Collect cooking oil for conversion and use as biodiesel in the city's fleet.

Engage New Canadians

Support ESL teachers to create and use lesson plans for adult students learning English. By using the information at 311.ca Ottawa students can learn about the reminder app, recycling calendar, replacement bins, how to sort as required for the city of Ottawa, hazardous waste disposal, Clean the Capital and many other waste management/environment initiatives. Partnerships already exist with the OCDSB ESL teachers and the Ottawa Health Unit for health related lesson plans.

Power partnership from municipal waste

Ottawa should partner with a private sector partner to produce hydro and natural gas from municipal organic waste. A growing number of cities in Ontario have anaerobic digesters. https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/recycling-organics-garbage/solid-waste-facilities/renewable-natural-gas/

There needs to be a program for dealing with packing foam such as what is used to pack televisions for sale.

Please - no garbage bag limits! Every household is different. We already reduce as much as possible. Please, don't make my life harder.

If there is one thing I count on my city doing... it's pick up the garbage. Please, don't introduce bag limits that will just add another difficulty to my life.

From a resident - Apartments, Restaurants and Waste Diversion Plans

You have indicated that "Industrial, Commercial & Institutional (IC&I) [including multi-unit residential] waste falls under provincial, not municipal, jurisdiction" in response to several questions, suggesting that the municipality has no influence over this. Yet the municipality approves building permits, zoning amendments, and other types of permits (e.g., access to public space for restaurant patios; acceptance of waste at landfill) that are required for these businesses and large residential units to operate. Can't you use this leverage at the point of permit issuance (/renewal) to require a waste diversion plan commensurate with the burden expected of low-density residences? It seems that we could eventually get most large waste producers in line with such an approach, boosting morale and motivation of residents in their own waste-diversion efforts.

Better Local Food Security

As the cost of basic necessities continues to rise we will need to rely on our own food sources. This would greatly help in reducing the amount of waste we produce each day. 1) Local gardens and farms give easy access to fresh produce and animals products. Gardens and farms require compost which can be created from organic matter. Gardens are easy to set up on even the smallest plots of land. 2) Indoor/patio/balcony growing of vegetation is useful for those in urban settings 3) Allow for backyard chickens - imagine all the styrofoam and plastic we could save on! They are not as gross/smelly as one would assume.

Hazardous waste

Many folks are unable to deal with hazardous waste as you currently require. This must be changed. I would suggest 4 times a year that hazardous waste is collected at curbside by the city or contractors.

Special bags for multi-unit organics

Could you consider specially marked bags that apartment and condo dwellers could use for organics which could be dropped down the usual garbage chute with regular waste and then easily separated out at the landfill site and redirected to the composting facility. This would relieve multi-unit building managers from making major structural adjustments and would be very convenient for residents. There would however have to be staff and facilities at the landfill site but, at least, it would offer some additional employment.

More treasure days would help share the wealth. One person's garbage could be another person's treasure. REUSE, recycle.

Communal Green Bin Disposal

Most multi-unit housing like apartments don't have green bins. My waste would be significantly reduced if I had access to one.

Compost in your sink

Send compost through the sink using garburators. capture this waste at the end of the line and run through a bio-digestor

Incenerator is the answer we pay on our taxes a waste disposal fee ,not in favour of paying more. The technology this there build it

more re-use days when residences can leave old appliances on the curbs, promoting/incentives to thrift stores to accept old appliances.

Re-use

Education: Elementary and Secondary

As an education component, I would have school field trips to visit the City of Ottawa's waste and recycling facilities. From an engineering, logistics, management point view. This could easily be tied into the science, technology and math curriculum. Hopefully that will plant the seed in their brains to think twice of purchasing anything that will ultimately end up there. I saw councilor DaRouze post photos from a visit to one facility and I was blown away.

Back to recycling basics

When I was in Elementary school we were taught this relatively new thing called recycling. I don't remember the specifics but it was along the lines of If you see a 1or 2 in the recycling triangle then recycle it, if you see a 3-4-5 then it's not recyclable here. No BS about a list of 50,000 items.

Cradle to Grave Products

This is more of a big picture initiative. ALL manufacturers of ANY product is required to pickup their products when the product is past its useful life. In the same way Amazon can delivery a package efficiently to your home, that exact same technology solution can be used for pickup and delivery back to the manufacturer. 2 Benefits 1) This would force manufacturers to create 360 products 2) Prices will increase so consumers will think twice of buying something they most likely don't need.

High-rise greenbins

If it isn't already being made part of the building code, for future high-rise buildings developers should be made responsible for designing into the building a way for green bins to work. It should be part of the permitting process, so that construction doesn't even start until something has been planned.

Incinerate anything that isn’t compostable and generate electricity