The privatization of Toronto garbage collection east of Yonge Street will be on the agenda at the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting on Monday.
Committee Chair Jaye Robinson is expected to request city staff to return with a report in January on options to outsource garbage collection.
City council voted in 2011 to forge ahead with private trash pickup west of Yonge Street. A staff report in 2015 said the city saves $11.9 million annually.
Mayor John Tory said a new labour agreement struck with city workers earlier this year means the municipality can now revisit garbage collection east of Yonge Street.
“That deal was reached earlier this year and ended the ‘jobs for life’ provisions that made contracting garbage pickup east of Yonge Street so challenging,” Tory told reporters in Scarborough Monday morning.
“Now that we know the facts, especially the terms of our labour agreement and the cost, even that improved deal imposes, now we must test the market and see if perhaps a better deal and better service can be done for less money.”
Tory vowed to contract out the city’s garbage collection east of Yonge Street during the 2014 mayoral campaign.
Green For Life, a private trash collection company, took control of most garbage collection west of Yonge Street in 2011.
VIDEO: Toronto’s move to contract out Garbage collection west of Yonge Street has lead to improved service city-wide. Jackson Proskow reports.
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