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Measuring Progress

• Clean public spaces, ditches, forests • Fewer bags of garbage entering the dump site
• Less undesignated dumping sites • Increased options supporting waste management at home
and work (e.g., pick-ups, composters, etc.)
• Greater percentage of recycled goods
Key Challenges And Concerns

• Still easiest for community members and visitors to throw waste all over our Mother Earth instead
of managing waste responsibly
• Loss in culture has meant a loss in understanding of our reciprocal responsibility to Mother Earth
• High cost of initiatives such as garbage pickup and waste facilities
• Messy yards, old and burnt out buildings, landowners uninterested or unable to keep them clean
• No standards to hold individuals or businesses accountable for properly disposing materials

Suggested Lead Partners

• Public Works • GREAT/OSTTC • Justice • New and emerging
organizations
• Ontario Works • Governance • Community Planning

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019
Waste and litter are a concern of many in the community, study needed to have clear
Conduct a community wide picture of what our impact currently is, what kinds of waste we are producing, what
waste impact study
proportion is recycled, etc.
Community Re-Use Centre/ Collaboration between Ontario Works and GREAT to begin in 2019. Will allow us to reuse
Second Hand Store unwanted goods and create employment.
SHORT
(2019-2024) Create user-friendly waste Funding secured for construction to begin in 2019. Landfill to be capped and new
transfer station at old landfill transfer station to be created at 4th line dump site. Will accept all types of waste to be
site sorted and shipped off-reserve.
Public Works has developed informational handouts, expansion needed to include
Develop Community Waste
Education Initiative school and business outreach, inform community of impacts and strategies to reduce
waste.
MEDIUM Provide reliable and low-cost Private business initiated in 2016 but was not sustained. Would require significant
or free garbage and recycling
(2025-2029) curbside pick-up financial resources to not pass the cost on to community members.
Single-use plastic ban within Action needs to be taken to curb our plastic use. Will require strong governance to
the community uphold this standard.

LONG Create a community Opportunity to divert garbage through food scraps, can be returned to members,
composting program
(2030-2039) resources needed for facility, household disposal, and pickupage.
The transfer station in short term solves land fill issue but does not live up to our
Create a waste/recycling expectations of stewardship as our waste becomes someone else’s problem. We need
facility to be champions of innovative waste processing and develop capacity at home, can
become economic venture to process waste from neighbouring communities.

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