Metro solid waste manager Paul Henderson said the province’s approval of the region’s solid waste plan and its directives from the environment minister require that sites – both in region and out of region – as well as technologies be all considered in parallel, not in a particular order, through a competitive process. “We’re bound by the plan,” added Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro’s Zero Waste committee.
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie is an enthusiastic user of the Canada Line, but also notes that almost as many people ride the Line to access Richmond as …
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie confirmed Wednesday that the mayors decided not to have the two members sit on the board because they didn’t believe it would …
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie said his council hasn’t yet decided what to do. He said the province has warned they face significant penalties if they don’t …
Coquitlam voted on Monday night to sign off on the deal while Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie told the Richmond News that the cities did agree to chip in for …
… we have had little or no input into it,” said Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie. “Green Timbers? That contract should have been sorted out a long time ago.
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro’s Zero Waste Committee, said Metro’s goal is to achieve 70 per cent waste diversion from landfills by 2015.
While mayors have seen the complicated contract, a promised “companion document” explaining the contract in more detail is yet to be seen. “That has been a critical point — we haven’t seen it,” said Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, one of a large number of big-city mayors who haven’t seen enough to sign on the bottom line.
The region plans to prohibit organic waste from the regular trash stream by the end of 2015, but Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, also the chair of the Zero …
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who chairs Metro’s Zero Waste Committee, said the fear is the outward migration of garbage will accelerate.