#9101 - Feb 1991

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4 MARKET MATIERS
Garbage Action
Garbage Crunch IV ~
by David Perlman
GARBAGE ACTION!
There will be major changes to
Kensington market garbage
collection, starting mid-February,
says Commissioner of Public
Works and the Environment, Nick
Vardin. Retailers and
restauranteurs in the market will
be visited by s member of the
public works department who will
hand-deliver an announcement
from public works explaining the
changes. Merchants should expect
delivery of the announcement in
the second or third week of
February, according to Peter
Gerkis, acting director of the
City's sanitation department ·
While the text of the
announcement is not yet available,
it is expected to include:
collection of corrugated cardboard
five nights a week (Mon-Fri);
collection from all restaurants six
nights a week (Mon-Sat);
introduction of a Saturday pickup,
for merchants only as an interim
measure;
where a pickup has been cancelled
because of a holiday, pickup to be
made the following day.
The only thing that appears to be
in doubt is the question of the extra
collection on Saturday nights.
Supported by councillor Amer,
Drum, area business and the
garbage action group, it was
previously opposed by public
works on the grounds that if
granted to Kensington it would
have to be granted to all retail
businesses in the city, at a time
when the trend is to less collection
rather than more-for
environmental as well as fmancial
reasons. In fact, the city services
committee recommended to
council on January 18 that there be
no extra pickup as a permanent
measure.
But now measure has been
supported publicly by
Commissioner Vardin, local
couocillors Amer ·and Martin, and
by the Kensington garbage action
group (local merchants, residents
and environmental activists). As
well, it is among the
recommendations in a report
which will be on the agenda of a
Kensington market area task force
meeting February 13. (See Task
Force Meeting, this page)
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The hoped for compromise is
that public works will add the extra
pickup out of its existing operating
budget-not a precedent setting
council decision but as a logical
temporary measure, one element
of a comprel)ensive local waste
reduction action plan. The extra
pickup will at least mean a more
manageable mess, and more
merchant support for the longterm
local garbage action plan
kensington market area task force: EAST MARKET REPORT, January 1991~~
7. PROBLEMS RELATED TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL
Concerns: that city, metro and community must come up with a
comprehensive waste reduction action plan for the market, or run the
risk of losing the essence of the Market--the sale of produce.
In essence the problem is that the Market receives basically ~he same
garbage disposal service from the City as the surrounding re.sidential
areas (two nights a week)
Recommendation 7 (A-J)
A. one additional garbage pickup a week, so therefore, collections
Monday, Thursday and saturday;
B. In the absence of A., immediate reinstatement of the previous
practice: Monday garbage collections · missed because of a holiday
·should be postponed to the Tuesday instead of cancelled outright;
c. that the City resume nightly collection of cardboard (5 nights a
week); that merchants and local garbage action groups parblclpate in
a program to separate waxed from unwaxed cardboard; that the province
look to introducing a "discouragement tax" on produce delivered from
outside the province in waxed cardboard; that there be a public
education program in the ~rea to educate people to the differences
between waxed and unwaxed card.boards; ·
D. that community, metro and city develop means for merchants to
separate at source food matter from cardboard, and to store the food
matter for return to the Ontario Food terminal for composting or
other use;
E. that the task force advise metro of kensing~on market support for
a plan to set up composting ~acllities on a commercial scale at the
ontario food terminal ,
F. that the Task Force support nightly waste colllection for all the
areas restaurants;
G. that ·the introduction of nightly pickup of garbage for restaurant~
be followed by introduction of a plan for commercial recycling and
food waste separation by all restaurants receiVing nightly pick-up;
· H. that following the successful introduction of commercial recycling
and food waste separation by restaurants, nightly garbage collection
be extended to all area businesses willing to implement · this
commercial recycling and food waQte separation plan;
r. that City Metro and local garbage action group try to arrange for
as many homes as posoible in the area to receive backyard composters;
J. that wherever possiblre, a comprehensive ~arbage action program in
the Kensington area be used to generate work for local people, and
cooperative educational opportunities for local youth.
L..-_;_ ___-.,..____.__-.~rom the east market report _____________.
Hope for changes to garbage collection schedule
The Kensington Market Drum, February 1991
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1 TO: METRO COUNCILLOR MARTIN, CITY
COUNCILLOR AMER, MPP MARCHESE
I SUPPORT COMPOSTING FACILITIES AT
THE FOOD TERMINAL
I WORK IN/ OWN/ RUN A BUSINESS THAT
BUYS FOOD FROM THE ONTARIO FOOD
TERMINAL.
IF YOU PROVIDE A COMPOSTER AT THE
TERMINAL, WE'LL SEPARATE CARD­
BOARD FROM VEGETABLE GARBAGE,
AND BRING THE VEGETABLE STUFF
I WITH US TO THE FOOD TERMINAL WHEN
I WE COME TO BUY.
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:NAME:
: NAME OF BUSINESS:
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ll DRUM FOR SOMEONE TO COME AND
COLLECT IT) ·
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Many Matters Close to
Resolution, says Fisher.
Long time market business
booster Gus Fisher has requested
Drum to advise market businesses
that many of the matters we have
covered in these pages are now
close to resolution, among them
relocation of gas mains on
Augusta at the city's expense, a
canopy by-law suitable for the
market, the end of the restaurant
control . by-law, and the
construction of ceremonial gates
at the five key entrances to the
market.
Fisher bases his optimism, he
say, partly on the attention that
Drum and the Task Force have
given to these matters, but also on
meetings that he has had, or has
scheduled, with city officials and
politicians.
Task Force Meeting
February 13th
(Drum Staff Report)
The next meeting of the
Kensington Market Area Task
Force will take place February 13
in committee room 5 at city hall at
7.00pm.
The meeting will be the last as a
Task Force member for Drum copublisher,
David Perlman , who
has been on the task force since its
inception in 1987. He cites "a
growing conflict of interest. ..
trying to report task force news,
while on the task force."
Cuul Z yvatkauskas will replace
David . Perlman on the task force.
She ·was co-chair of the
Kensington Residents
Association with Allan Schwam in
1986 when the association helped
organize Spadina opposition to a
proposed LRT on Spadina.
The closing date to get items on
the main agenda for the meeting
was February 4, too late to publish
details here. But certainly one item
on the agenda is the East Market
Report -'- a document compiled
by members of the task force
containing some 65
recommendations covering
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Baldwin St, St Andrew, and Jm1S
of Kensington and Spadina Ave.
Matters covered in the report
-include: garbage action, the
parking garage expansion, St.
Andrew road widening, impacts of
the Spadina LRT, the role of
George Brown College in the
market, the present and future role·
of the task force, and the
preservation and expansion of
affordable housing in 1he market.
The section of the report dealing
with garbage action was received
favoumbly at a garbage action
meeting, Jan 22, with the
Commissioner of Public Works
the Environment (sec garbage
action elsewhere on this page), so
hopes are high among task force
members that other
recommendations will be given
equally serious considemtion.
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