York Region leads large Ontario municipalities with 94% waste diversion

York Region leads large Ontario municipalities with 94-per-cent waste diversion rate – or is that 66 per cent?

Provincial authority doesn't count incineration as a way to meet targets. 

Published online: July 29, 2024

Author: Mike Adler

"York Region is a leader when it comes to making decisions on what to do with its waste. 

Regional councillors asked for nine-tenths of what York throws away – 362,665 tonnes last year – to be kept out of a landfill the region uses in Niagara Falls. 

With a 94-per-cent diversion rate in 2023, the region exceeded that goal for the seventh year straight.

"We're actually No. 1 in the province last year among large urban municipalities," including Toronto and Peel Region, and "first in that category for quite a number of years now," Julie Hordowick, program manager of York's integrated waste management strategy said in an interview. 

"We're quite happy to see that. ... "

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