David Staples: Edmonton is a laggard when it comes to recycling garbage

For decades, Edmonton was recycling proud. We told ourselves we were world leaders. We spoke so often of our vision of recycling 90 per cent of all household garbage that many of us believed it was a done deal.
For example, the Journal reported in 1993 the claim that our blue box recycling program was “the best in the world.”
With materials recovery and composting plants up and running by the turn of the century, we reported in 2007: “For nearly two decades, Edmonton has b