City rolls out new recycling carts
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The city has started to roll out new recycling carts in northwest Winnipeg.
This month, Winnipeg will start to replace blue boxes and garbage cans with automated garbage and recycling carts in an effort to improve the city’s dismal trash-diversion rate and get residents to recycle more and throw out less. The overhaul is part of Winnipeg’s new garbage and recycling master plan, which was approved by city council last fall.
City officials expect the change will cause a huge jump in recycling.The 240-litre garbage and recycling carts are roughly the size of three standard-sized garbage bags or four blue boxes.
Neighbourhoods in the city’s northwest were the first to test the new garbage-cart system in 2010. After one year, the area recorded the highest level of recycling Winnipeg has ever seen — 47,000 metric tonnes — and saw the amount of waste sent to landfill drop by nearly 11,000 metric tonnes compared with the previous year.
City crews started to deliver recycling carts to the property line on the front streets in northwest Winnipeg this morning.
Solid waste manager Darr Drohomerski said crews will deliver about 4,000 carts a day.
Garbage and recycling carts will be delivered to the city’s northeast in July, to southeast Winnipeg in August and to south of the Assiniboine River and west of the Seine River in September.
The city plans to start collection in autobin areas in August and elsewhere in Winnipeg on Oct. 1.
Drohomerski said residents should store the carts in a safe place and record the cart’s serial number in case a problem arises.
Every cart is assigned to a specific address and will be recorded in a city database.