Starting on June 1, the City of North Battleford says it will enforce recycling rules that prohibit non-recyclable materials from being placed in blue recycle bins.
Mayor Ryan Bater said bringing the enforcement forward has been a year-long process that started with auditing the city’s curbside recycling program, which has been in place since 2013.“Our service provider has indicated to us there’s been a lot of non-recyclable material going into the blue bins. And so we’ve been taking a closer look at that,” Bater said on Monday.
“When a load has too high of a volume of non-recyclable material, it’s considered a ‘spoiled load’ and it is baled and sent back to us and it goes into our landfill, which fills our landfill in a quicker rate than we’d like.”said one contaminated blue bin has the potential to contaminate an entire truckload of recyclable material.
The city said recyclables that are diverted from the landfill result in decreased operating costs and extend the current cell’s lifespan at its Waste Management Facility.“We project right now at the current pace that we will have to replace our existing cell in 2028. And it’s going to cost taxpayers $2,000,000,” Bater said.
“I think that we will receive tips because I’ve anecdotally had a lot of people indicate to me that they feel frustration seeing people in their neighbourhoods not adhering to the very clear directives around recycling but this will be more enforcement by the city itself,” Bater said.
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