City considers whether people should pay for garbage pickup

City hall is studying whether to charge a fee for trash collection in Saskatoon to divert more waste from the landfill and to directly connect cost with usage.
City council’s environment, utilities and corporate services committee voted unanimously to direct staff to continue to explore converting waste services to a utility model to make it less dependent on property tax.
A utility model would mean charging fees based on usage and could involve various approaches.
Committee members said t