Recycling Issues

[clasher]

The region could also start using automated sorting machines on all the garbage and collect more of those unsorted amounts. There's a lot of videos on youtube showing how these machines work and they're used all over the world.

Then the Region would be picking a fight with a union. And we all know the Region doesn't do that.

You know they outsourced garbage collection to Waste Management, right? From what I can find it doesn't seem like they are unionized in Waterloo Region. Even so, it would be entirely possible to start using machines to shred and sort incoming garbage while maintaining the current sorting system for incoming recycling and letting those people's contracts expire without having to "bust" any union and slowly transition it all to machines.