P.A. survey looks for ‘why’ of illegal dumping
Efforts to end the flow of garbage heading into the forests and land around Prince Albert could spread across the province.
The Keep Prince Albert and Area Beautiful working group is centred on the idea that teamwork is needed to tackle the all-too-common issue of illegal dumping.
There were a few events before the group’s official Saturday launch at John M. Cuelenaere Library for Seedy Saturday, including an Earth Day garbage pickup by ministry of environment staff last Wednesday.
“What we’re hoping to do is to get a successful pilot project out of this to show that stakeholders need to come together to tackle this. The City can’t do it alone, the R.M.’s can’t do it alone, the ministry can’t do it alone,” the ministry of environment’s manager of landfills Sarah Keith told people who’d gathered on Saturday.