By Kayla Bruch

PHOTOS/VIDEO: City releases new recycling guide

Jan 6, 2014 | 4:43 PM

Prince Albert has provided a recycling program for many years, but now the city is releasing its first recycling guide.

With a goal in mind of recycling 60 per cent of all materials, the city wants to make sure residents know what they can recycle in their blue bins.

The front of the new guide has any items that are acceptable in the blue bins and the back has items listed that the public shouldn’t be recycling.

Coun. Martin Ring said in co-operation with the City Of Calgary they developed a guide specific for Prince Albert residents. 

The board chairman of North Central Saskatchewan Waste Management Corporation Keith Matheson said the new brochure is very similar to Calgary’s. “Other than Calgary takes glass, we don’t accept glass within our facility.”

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Matheson said in the future they have no plans to accept glass because it can contaminate the load and it’s a safe product for the landfill.

President and CEO of Crown Shredding Jack Shaw said there are some products that are most harmful to Crown Shredding employees.

“Needles and food waste from your kitchen and then you as a resident if you put that stuff in your bin you have actually contaminated all the bins that are going in the truck with it,” said Shaw.

He’s also asking residents to untie their plastic bags and dump it into their bins. He also said black bags will be thrown away.

Residents who don’t receive the guide in the mail can also find it on the City of Prince Albert website and the Crown Shredding website as well.

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