Bag it, tag it: Council votes to keep user pay waste management system

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You’ll need to keep buying garbage bag tags for your household trash. Stratford City Council voted Monday night to keep the user pay system intact, which sees residents purchase bag tags for their curbside bags or bins. That option including eliminating bag tags, but council expressed concern about losing out on bag tag revenue, which offsets a large portion of waste management. A new contract will be awarded to Canadian Waste Management Inc. for a seven year period at a cost of $8.8 million. Related: Trash talk: What will the future of waste management look like in Stratford?