Letter of the Day: Garbage numbers are hardly complex

In his June 4 article, Phil Tank lamented the garbage debate is buried in complex numbers. Buried I can agree with, but the numbers are hardly complex.
The landfill shows an annual deficit of $1 million. The primary purpose of creating a waste utility is to extract an additional $1 million from Saskatoon residents to address this apparent shortfall. No matter the size of your garbage cart, you can count on paying a lot more.
There’s no reason to believe a compost program will divert 26,000