Oxford County is hoping to become a zero waste community by 2025.
OXFORD COUNTY - Oxford County Council unanimously passed a motion to begin the process of becoming a zero waste community.
Deputy Warden Ted Comiskey knows more can be done to attain this goal and that other municipalities should not be receiving our waste. Comiskey explains it is going to be a long road before the county can become self sufficient. "What we need to do is assemble a committee and to sit down, and discuss, and drive ideas on how Oxford County can attain towards zero waste projects. Over the next 10 years we will look at how we can take all of our waste and re-direct it."
Deputy Warden Comiskey who spearheaded the project is hopeful this will but a stop to talks of a potential landfill from entering the area. "The whole idea is that if you take a county that has a sustainable direction, in other words every aspect of its life is to sustain, and to help, and to promote, and develop then you are looking at the people coming in saying this isn't where we can dump." Councillors will be keeping a close eye on the project over the next 10 years and it is just another way to help reach the 100% renewable energy goal by 2050.
Deputy Warden Ted Comiskey who presented this issue to council is concerned about the 20,000 tons of waste that leaves Oxford County. "We have to see what is going into our landfill today, where can we take it, where can we take it so that it can be reused, can they be reused right on the production site. The idea is don't produce reusable items either the whole items are reduce what you can contain."
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