Tank: User-fee trash talk needs to take math into account

Saskatoon folks who are panicking over city hall studying the prospect of user fees for trash collection will be dismayed to learn the initiative has already been approved — 10 years ago.
In November 2007, city council approved a 20-year plan to reduce the amount of waste headed to the landfill. That initiative included a plan to implement some sort of user-pay system for garbage pickup in two to five years.
The user fees were never implemented in Saskatoon and it seems fair to regard the