You’ll need to keep buying garbage bag tags for your household trash.
Stratford City Council voted Monday night to keep the user pay system intact, which sees residents purchase bag tags for their curbside bags or bins.
A second option that included a switch to bi-weekly from once-per-week, and the use of wheeled garbage bins found no traction among elected officials at city hall.
That option including eliminating bag tags, but council expressed concern about losing out on bag tag revenue, which offsets a large portion of waste management.
Coun. Jo-Dee Burbach said she posted the options on her social media page and had quite a lot of feedback, with 77 of 85 respondents preferring to stick with option one: bag tags and weekly garbage and green bin pickup, along with seasonal yard waste.
Emily Skelding, supervisor of waste operations for the City of Stratford, presented a report to council with both options and asked for direction from council.
A new contract will be awarded to Canadian Waste Management Inc. for a seven year period at a cost of $8.8 million.
The new contract starts in November, 2026.
Related: Trash talk: What will the future of waste management look like in Stratford?
