Tomorrow the majority of urban Huntsville will be given the opportunity to take their green bin out to the curb.

These are exciting times for Muskoka and while some of your typical naysayers have already started complaining about “the mess” of such bins, it isn’t any different from having to hose down a sticky garbage bin.

Using such bins for food scraps or for peels while you’re making dinner isn’t a novel idea. The system is being used in municipalities throughout Ontario and successfully too.

It is also refreshing to be able to put your wood ashes in a place other than your garden bed, which may start to look like a landfill on its own if you don’t go through the trouble of constantly spreading it.

There are some who are reticent about the cost of rolling out the program, but what they’re not considering is the far greater cost of having to expand an existent landfill or the cost and public outcry of having to establish a new one.

Why not have some fun while making a difference? Challenge your household to see how your recycling and composting adventure is faring by trying to decrease the amount of actual garbage you’re putting out to the curb.

Hopefully, with everyone’s buy-in, the program will become successful and expand to a greater number of households in Muskoka.

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