Toronto councillor wants garbage pickup on one side of the street

A Toronto councillor is proposing moving garbage pickup to just one side of the street.

Coun. Stephen Holyday (Ward 3, Etobicoke Centre), a member of the public works and infrastructure committee, is planning to ask that committee request a staff report on the subject next week, the Toronto Sun reports.

Holyday wants to know if it could save the city money. It could be less costly to have garbage trucks only go down the street once, but it might only work in suburban areas where streets and sideways are wide enough to accommodate bins on one side of the road, Holyday told the Sun.

He’s also suggesting that garbage be on one side of the street, and recycling on the other, so that the bins aren’t always in front of the same house.

Holyday is the son of Doug Holyday, a former city councillor who supported private garbage pickup in Toronto. Doug Holyday was mayor of Etobicoke when that city privatized garbage collection in 1994.