We’re likely to hear a lot of trash talk from our neighbours to the south very soon.
The City of London, you see, is looking at revamping its garbage collection system and is considering going the ‘bag tag’ route.
Here, of course, we’re used to buying bag tags and making sure we place one on each bag we take out to the curb. It’s a minor nuisance, but a fairly inexpensive one. Expect to hear much whining and complaining from Londoners, however, if city hall ends up charging residents for each garbage bag they take out to the curb — it would be a new fee, after all, and people are never pleased with that, even if the rest of us might be surprised London hadn’t already adopted such a system.
The concept behind bag tags is fairly simple. You pay for how much trash you create — the more trash that comes out of your household, the more you pay. While bag tags also help municipalities with their bottom line, there are those who like the system because it encourages residents to recycle more, which most people would agree is a good thing.
But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a lot of upset Londoners if a user pay system for garbage is introduced. On the other hand, they won’t be getting any sympathy from the rest of us, who’ve been paying for our garbage for a long time.

Ethanol meeting
For all of those who have been wondering about the status of the much-delayed GreenField Ethanol plant in Hensall, plan to attend a public information meeting on the subject Thursday at the Hensall arena at 7 p.m.
Hosted by the Municipality of Bluewater, representatives from GreenField will be on hand to update the public on the project and answer questions.
And there are lots of questions, starting with: when will the facility finally be built? GreenField has maintained all along that — despite rumours that the plant’s future was in doubt — the plant would be built. Maybe Thursday we’ll finally find out when.