TORONTO

You may have to throw out your extra-large garbage bin in the next few years.

Fresh from his trip to Paris to talk about climate change, Mayor John Tory revealed Monday that he supports dumping the extra-large trash bins now available to Toronto residents.

Although he’d like to get rid of them “sooner than later,” Tory doesn’t have a time line for when they could end up on the rubbish pile.

“It can’t be done immediately because you have to give people time to adjust and the city itself has to have time to adjust, but you know, I think in the next couple of years — meaning this coming year or the next one — it would be a good time by which to look at having that done,” he said.

“When we have inspected bins, literally 77% of what we find in those extra-large bins are things that should be recycled.”

He added that some people are treating them as a licence to avoid recycling.

“And I’m concerned about that because that obviously has a negative effect on the environment but it also carries a huge cost for the city.”

Council will debate hiking the cost of all sizes of bins and all other garbage rates by 3% this week as part of the 2016 solid waste budget.

Here’s other things Tory is promising in the wake of his trip to the climate summit in France:

Tory vowed that the city will return to leading the way on environmental causes.

He believes the best way for Toronto to help reduce Canada’s greenhouse gases is to focus on reducing congestion and building transit.

The city will speed up the work to convert to energy-efficient LED lights in all its buildings.

Tory will roll out a “smart commute” challenge in the new year to encourage businesses to promote transit to employees.

Tory wants the city to meet or exceed its tree-planting targets by planting more trees on private land.

Tory wants to construct a carbon-neutral city building and focus on retrofitting existing municipal structures.

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