Report dumping, citizens urged
Everyone has seen it at one time or another: garbage, old appliances, broken TVs, mattresses and other waste items dumped in the bush, beside waste bins and maybe even in your waste bin.
Everyone has seen it at one time or another: garbage, old appliances, broken TVs, mattresses and other waste items dumped in the bush, beside waste bins and maybe even in your waste bin.
The City of Whitehorse is encouraging all residents and business owners to report illegal dumping. The city investigates all reports of illegal dumping, which can lead to charges under a number of bylaws.
Over the last few years, the City has installed REPORT ILLEGAL DUMPING signs on back roads and near known illegal dumping sites within the city’s boundaries, it pointed out in a statement Wednesday.
“Reporting illegal dumping is important for city staff who are trying to learn more about the problem, what it costs taxpayers, and how community members can work together to stop illegal dumping,” the city said.
“For those individuals with a smart phone, the Whitehorse Waste App has a feature that allows you to report and send photos of illegal dumping directly from your phone. Give it a try next time you see illegal dumping.”
Members of the public can contact the City Trouble Line at 667-2111 or try the Whitehorse Waste App to report illegal dumping from their mobile phones.
For more information or to try out the mobile or web app visit: www.whitehorse.ca/stopdumping
Comments (21)
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Wilf Carter on Jun 5, 2018 at 10:54 am
Al have you said how the dump manages waste. It is a mess. Everything mixed is not the way to manage waste.
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Josey Wales on Jun 4, 2018 at 11:18 pm
Call it in they say...why?
Do you think for a millisecond the army of crats in our bloated civic payroll have a spore of a concern for our community?
The evidence and not my mere opinion suggests very strongly that they do not.
I for decades cleaned our trails and town, yes, even tried to get CoW involved in it...with hit and miss success in fairness.
Before they tapped into that gravy bowl that is war eagle tipping fees, our community was far faaaar cleaner and I had NO need to douche the trails of garbage that was not ever there.
But we have these parasites called progressives, that have tried so hard for us to chug the kool aid...that green kind that few liked.
The biggest user of said dump we are alleged to be using up, is the government. As they buy *** not needed before every fiscal year end, “update” and renovate their hiding spots bringing more refuse to war eagle.
Wonder if our mega bloated CoW sustainability dept have TRUTHFUL stats on how much and what type of refuse they contribute to war eagle?
Rhetorical...as I have ZERO trust in much the CoW has to say.
The people in our hall have greatly assisted the decomposition of this community, and now they have the optics that concern and care is there for our community? Rich very veeery riiiiccH
So big deal, when CoW does another infill, for the sake of Mother Earth and the densification zealots...they have to bring a team of “refuse gathering specialists” @$24-32 per body and recycle it all.
Our taxes go up like a big falcon rocket each year because of the epic and I do mean epic stupidity within our civic government, not because we desire to go to the dump.
Trust me folks, they care not for anything but their negotiated entitlements and the progressive crusade...
Do not believe me, look around your community, gasp...go for a drive, go downtown, watch the willfully ignorant go in and outta the many hiding spots awaiting their next entitlement.
Carefully observe our political trough feeders, and their minions?
Does what YOU see give you the assurance that they are.....
“Striving for perfection”
Even Jeff Healy would be able to see not...eh?
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moe on Jun 4, 2018 at 3:48 pm
I reported illegal dumping behind Cook Street. ( a rolled up carpet). Not only did the city of Whitehorse say they would do nothing about it, they said it was MY responsibility to pick up this huge carpet and transport it to the dump, including paying the dump fee!
Ha!
I somehow doubt they're going to be 'right on it', if you see someone in flagrant delicto. "Sounds like Work."
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Stu Panton on Jun 3, 2018 at 11:08 pm
Yes, we need no tipping fees and we need ATV and side by side access from all areas of town to the dump so the average Joe will enjoy going there. Sure it may cost millions of dollars but it supports businesses which sell the machines and employ people.
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Yukoner on Jun 2, 2018 at 8:55 pm
Hey Tom, maybe he has applied with the city but because he's a local and doesn't have any family working for the gubberment, his resume and application were turfed!
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north_of_60 on Jun 2, 2018 at 8:23 pm
Isaac Stout is correct, and so are the others who realize that the overhead of a half-a-million dollar Sustainability Department makes tipping fees outrageous as compared with other similar size communities.
We could have an efficient, cost-effective system like Kelowna if we were not spending our taxes on garbage-cops and enviro-bureaucrats who serve no useful purpose.
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Isaac Stout on Jun 2, 2018 at 7:52 am
I ask you why the tipping fees at the Whitehorse dump are 10X what they are for the same waste in Kelowna and Grande Prairie? This is fact not fiction. In Kelowna you do not even have to go through the weigh scales if your dropping recyclables. You drive this little loop off to the side which has a cardboard squisher troubling no one. Slick, efficient and cost worthy.
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Sillig on Jun 1, 2018 at 4:21 pm
There is no arguing the sustainability department is a huge waste of tax payers dollars....cut it and put the money into the dump, reduce the fees, eliminate the fees, or this dumping in the bush will continue.
The old adage that you need to make yourself useful or you are useless will never carry this department into the future....just a bunch of green washed feel good wordage so prevalent in this era.
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Tom W on Jun 1, 2018 at 3:20 pm
Hey Gordon of Riverdale...
Let’s hear your idea of coming up with a solution. Instead on moaning about how city staff can’t come up with an idea, since they’re so under qualified for the jobs they do, you must be overqualified then, I’m assuming and have a brilliant idea coming. Let’s hear it. Better yet, take some action instead of keyboard warrior statements. Apply for a city job for management and lead the city staff in the right direction. Help by volunteering on evenings or weekends to clean the garbage in the City. Do something instead of moaning and pointing fingers about the issue.
Why am I not surprised you haven’t come up with a better idea?
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Just Sayin' on Jun 1, 2018 at 2:54 pm
The primary issue is the COW does not tax enough to sustain a free dump as materials have to get shipped for recycling because the dear old tree huggers want to ensure they feel part of something. Instead, the COW should purchase an incinerator with stringent scrubbers and burn the garbage. The heat generated could be used to heat placed in PC. The garbage/recyclables would actually do something. Instead , materials (bottles cardboard) are trucked down south (GHG) where recycled products are made which typically do not last. Oh well, out of sight, out of mind... maybe there is another borehole where we can bury the garbage... Faro MIne????
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Yukon Justice on Jun 1, 2018 at 2:08 pm
I remember when there were no tipping fees, no one dumped in the bush and you could scavenged all day long. The management of our garbage is like many other decisions made here in the Yukon. There is a 100% chance that someone hired from OUTSIDE came up with them.
Never forget these words, "back home where I came from we did it this way."
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Gordon of Riverdale on Jun 1, 2018 at 9:53 am
Yet another "snitch line solution" from the under qualified and over payed City of Whitehorse cubicle warriors.
Why am I not surprised that these people can't come up with something better ?
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Wilf Carter on Jun 1, 2018 at 8:14 am
Here we go again our mayor not understanding the logic behind this move and how society thinks.
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xyz on May 31, 2018 at 11:20 pm
@My Opinion, I couldn't agree more. The whole waste management policy should be revisited. Toronto only started charging tipping fees recently, after years of educating and promoting separation, recycling etc. But in Whitehorse it's been since the 1990s. It's hard to see it as a great success, given all the collateral damage -- bears, in particular.
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Al Fedoriak on May 31, 2018 at 9:43 pm
The dumping fees for residents taking their garbage to the dump and placing it in the appropriate bins or location is, put simply, stupid as stupid can be and results in illegal dumping. The operation of a waste collection facility is for the benefit of all the citizens and we should all through our utilities fees pay for it sharing the cost. This will eliminate illegal dumping or collecting it in our yards as my neighbour a city employee does.
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north_of_60 on May 31, 2018 at 7:55 pm
Illegal dumping around Whitehorse increased noticeably right after the misinformed and inept Sustainability Department raised tipping fees to reduce garbage at the landfill. Their misdirected plan worked and now more trash gets dumped in the bush.
The half a million per year spent on a useless Sustainability Department is the biggest single waste of our tax dollars ever. There was far less garbage in the bush before we had a Sustainability Department.
The CoW should terminate the Sustainability Department and make tipping fees at the dump free for residential garbage on the weekends. It would save money and reduce illegal dumping.
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Guncache on May 31, 2018 at 7:54 pm
So you want the public to do your legal work? You want to get rid of illegal dumping, then get rid of tipping fees. They are not necessary. Also bring back scavenging, reduce, reuse, recycle. Have each scavenger wear a high visibility vest with an identifying number on it. That will pinpoint any scavenger not complying with rules.
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ken giam on May 31, 2018 at 4:15 pm
Bylaw officers investigate - go through the garbage and look for receipts, letter or anything traceable to the persons responsible.
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ProScience Greenie on May 31, 2018 at 3:34 pm
Just get rid of tipping fees and at the end of the day they're be way less dumping in the bush and no need of costly and intrusive enforcement. Not rocket science for crying out loud.
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Yukoner on May 31, 2018 at 3:31 pm
Some of us have. I reported illegal dumping of car batteries on Fish Lake Road about a decade ago (my employer at the time instructed me to do it). I was told that the city would not investigate it.
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My Opinion on May 31, 2018 at 3:12 pm
My God. Do you want the Garbage at the Dump or not. Quit preaching ZERO waste and admit we have waste and it needs to go somewhere. How do you promote proper behaviour? Fining people for taking it where you would like it to go is counter productive.
In striving for lower dump tonnage through raising costs may achieve that goal but this is the result of flawed logic.
Peoples homes are now toxic waste sites waiting for the annual ability to get rid of it. People are going to die in house fires because of this. You should freely allow people to get rid of this stuff at the dump freely. That way it doesn't get mixed in with residential garbage or dumped in the bush. Come on guys THINK. To many degrees and not enough thinking.