The
District of Squamish has approved a change in solid waste
disposal as well as the addition of curb-side recycling.
With bi-weekly curb-side garbage and recycling we are
significantly reducing the Municipal Greenhouse Gas Emissions
with respect to the delivery of the services on the trucking
side, encouraging more participation in recycling thereby
diverting waste, and overall any reduction in solid waste and
any increase in recycling will improve the Municipal Green House
Gas (GHG) emissions.
SINGLE
STREAM CURB-SIDE RECYCLING PROGRAM UPDATE
The
new recycling service will commence in January 2009.
Totes will be delivered to all residential houses that
currently have curb-side garbage pick-up. The 65 gallon
recycling totes will be distributed end of November /early
December.
A larger recycling tote will be made available (95
gallon) at an extra cost.
This
service will be bi-weekly pickup of recyclable materials from
the curb-side for all dwellings that
currently receive curb-side residential garbage pickup.
The service will include Cardboard, Boxboard, Mixed
Papers, Plastic (rigid #’s 1 – 5 and plastic bags) and domestic metals (tin and
aluminum cans).
Glass will not
be part of the recycling program.
A glass bin will be set up at 38950 Queensway (Carney’s
Waste System).
