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How many of the 22 "part-timers" will be hired from the ranks of the "homeless" and those on social assistance? Do we need to have ambassadors? Why don't the high paid bureaucrats and highly paid consultants come up with a plan which will be endorsed by our clown council and bylaws would be enacted that say to apartment building owners "this is what you must do if you...."

Report calls for 15,000 garbage 'ambassadors' TheStar.com - GTA - Report calls for 15,000 garbage 'ambassadors'

October 10, 2008

John Spears
city hall bureau

Wanted: More than 15,000 Toronto apartment and condo dwellers who will teach their neighbours the virtues of reducing, reusing and recycling their garbage.

A city advisory committee wants to recruit "3Rs Ambassadors" to help Toronto reach its target of diverting 70 per cent of garbage from the dump by 2010. The proposal goes to the works committee today.

City programs make it easy for people in single-family homes to compost and recycle: This group diverts nearly 60 per cent of its waste.

But half of Torontonians live in large complexes, and their diversion rate is under 15 per cent.

Toronto's 3Rs Working Group – a citizen advisory panel enlisted by the city – says the best way to boost diversion in big developments is neighbour-to-neighbour contact.

The group proposes a "large-scale, structured network of dedicated volunteers" who would go door to door equipped with information, encouraging neighbours to recycle, compost or reuse materials that can be kept out of the garbage bin.

The scale is daunting.

The group figures there are 5,280 apartment, condo or townhouse complexes to be covered, with an average need of three volunteers each.

It says the city would need to hire staff to build and co-ordinate the network – two full-time and 22 part-time workers next year (at about $1.25 million) and double that many in later years