As the province begins to take over waste collection services in Waterloo Region, some new attention is being raised about the issues that improper sorting is having on provincial landfills.

It comes as Lisa Kowalchuk, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Waterloo, said she spent time studying the cause and effect of ongoing efforts to improve sorting across various residential high-rises.

That included waste diversion, collection, and reduction efforts across those more densely populated areas. She said the issues are less focused on what exactly is being collected and rather how it’s being sorted and, subsequently, where it is headed.

Kowalchuk stated that many high-rise developments are not properly sorting out their garbage, recycling, and organic materials, meaning a majority of it is collectively being sent to landfills.

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