By Cheryl Jahn

Curbside glass recycling coming

Jul 2, 2020 | 2:59 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – For those who are keen on recycling, there will be a new addition to the blue box program, coming to the city in December.

That’s when residents can begin to recycle their household glass waste.

The blue box campaign was launched in BC in 2014, to recycle paper products and certain plastic products but glass was not part of it due to concerns about contamination.

“When you put glass into a curbside bin and threw it into a truck, it’s likely to break and it will end up with all of those pieces contaminating other materials in the load,” explains Dave Lefebvre with Recycle BC, which oversees the blue box program.

Also, Recycle BC aims to have an end user of what they collect. According to the most recent Annual Report, 98% of plastics collected through the program is sold to end markets in BC.

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“Recycle BC is really strong about finding buyers for these products, right? So with our flexible packaging that we have from our granola bars or chip wrappers, they found manufacturers to take that material and make it into something new,” says Terri McClymont, Executive Director for REAPS.

While the Regional District of Fraser Fort George, which handles the solid waste services for the city and region, says glass only makes up 2.14% of all the waste, the lack of glass collection through some form of curbside pick up was cited as the Number One beef for residents in a survey done last October. But Recycle BC wants to make it abundantly clear that glass collection WILL NOT happen until December.

by Cheryl Jahn

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