Quinte West expecting savings, awaiting details on waste collection

Quinte West could save at least $1 million annually after Ontario’s changes to legislation governing recycling take effect in July. City council on April 16 heard that news and more from Chris Angelo, the city’s public works and environment services director. Kitchener-Waterloo in 1983 made Ontario’s first mandated curbside recycling program. Locally, nine municipalities in 1990 created what is now Quinte Waste Solutions. Today, Angelo said, more than two-thirds of Quinte West