South Bruce Peninsula Councillor Dan Kerr is warning the town will run out of landfill space within 10 years if it doesn’t reduce it’s waste.
A study indicates the dump will be full by 2019 and it will cost about 5 million dollars to expand it.
Kerr says in 2005 the town send 11 thousand metres of garbage to the landfill and three years later that was up over 20 thousand cubic metres.
At the same time the amount of material going to recycling drupped by 27 percent to 907 tonnes.
Councillor Kerr says the province wants a diversion rate of 70 percent and South Bruce Peninsula is around 20 percent.
He and councillor Wray Lamont have studied the issue and recommended council go to full bag tags in the town as a way of encouraging recycling.
Currently residents don’t pay for their first garbage bag.
Some councillors felt garbage should be covered by property taxes and Council voted the idea of full-bag tags down.
They then asked the waste committee to go back to the drawing board.
Kerr says two public members on the waste committee have already quit and he is ready to do the same.
Although another waste committee session is set for mid-March, Councillor Kerr says it will be just him and Wray Lamont, so what is the point.