Plastic candy wrappers are not recyclable and must be put in the garbage. (107673110 © Viktoriya Kuzmenkova)

By Alison Sandstrom

A Trashy Holiday?

Picking up after Halloween

Oct 31, 2019 | 5:00 PM

As little ghouls and goblins prepare to descend on Prince Albert tonight, the city’s sanitation manager is encouraging them to leave nothing but spooky footprints behind on the snowy streets.

“Act responsibly and have fun responsibly without generating any waste,” Nasir Ghani told paNOW. “Just use the garbage cans and don’t throw it on the street.”

By Nov. 1, All Hallows’ Eve may be a distant memory for some, but faint plastic traces of the celebration still linger eerily in the streets.

Prince Albert deploys a small crew of around three people to clean up any debris left the morning after the ghoulish festivities, although city workers haven’t been haunted by any substantial amounts of Halloween trash in the past.

“Usually we send an extra crew the following day to clean up the mess, but the mess is not that significant,” Ghani said.

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The sanitation manager reminded the public that all those candy wrappers are not recyclable, and must be condemned to an eternal existence in the garbage, not put in the blue bin.

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