All I see is just another reason for a tax increase. Just keep things the way they are and focus on the roads!!!!!

How about ridding some people of their “upgraded and enhanced ditches” in front of their highly taxed abodes? That would be nice. Richmond did it.

Oh no….another way to extract more taxes from the citizens of Prince George….I suppose a Manager of Recycling will be required? ;)

Hmmmmm, Lets see, even though I am a redneck, I would support a recycle plan where someone picks up my cardboard box, etc once every two weeks , or once a month.

The city should embrace this. More that is picked up, for recycling. Less goes to the landfills. Meaning less cost to the city. Thus the short fall from MMBC is made up pretty quickly from less dump fees. Seems like a no brainer to me.

What about recycling plastic also? UNBC has a bin. I asked at the Heather Rd. landfill if they””re were thinking of this. They said probably ‘never’.

I talked to a guy in Ucelete on a hiking trail when I was down there last month. Apparently he had a business building waste bins in Calgary. Said he made huge profits, then cashed out and was buying up realestate on Vancouver Island. He said the profits were getting eaten up by the environmentalists… tipping fee increases up the ying yang, but the biggest problem was the contaminated load fines. It drove him out of the business.

The question he posed is how does one build a bin that can’t be contaminated? Said its easy to design a functional bin, but contamination is often beyond the control of the waste removal company, and with fines in the thousands of dollars for a single load its the waste removal companies that take all the risk. That risk of fines from contamination would eat up all the profits and in the end drives up the cost for everyone.

MMBC retains the control of personnel – up to and including the authority to have a worker removed from the performance of duties.

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Not seeing the issue here. This is the way it should be.

As for not liking the contract; try negotiating one that’s more to your liking.

Just another tax grab if approved. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

So our city has no problems awarding a million dollar contract for parking control but not for recycling? Priorities eh?

Go the usual route

Pay to much and hire a friend

the last thing we need is the city getting into this business, god knows they will mess it up somehow. There are at least 2 private companies in town, Blue Jewel and R3 Recycling, that do the job for a very small fee. We stopped with Blue Jewel after they stopped accepting plastics in the spring. With R3, pick up happens once a month, plastics are taken, and I don’t have to sort everything out, they take care of it. they’ll also take as much as you have every month. I can’t remember what it costs us, not more than 25 a month, and honestly cuts our garbage down by at least 50 percent. customer service is also great. please, city of pg, stay out of this.

Why are we so behind the times? Every other community recycles. What there to ponder. Too much talk, very little action.
We do not need a conversation on this topic. We need to know when it will begin.

MMBC isn’t offering the best value for cost with their curbside recycling program and they are too limited in what they will collect, print, paper and packaged material only …. not a good deal when for $25 / mth you can get private company curbside recycling pickup that also includes glass, plastics and tins. The City of PG would be wise to stay away from MMBC’s proposed program.

Remember, the less trash that goes to the landfill, the higher they raise the “tipping fees” to make up for lost revenue. Recycling is a bad word to the RDFFG landfill and their budget predictions.

They also need to get some sort of ways to dispose of needles. The Needle Van hands needles out to people in BOXES a hundred needles in a BOX. Northern Health is not responsible after that. That’s why they are finding used needles at the civic plaza. They should have GREEN BOXES at City Hall , Library ,Art Gallery ECT. for people to be able to dispose of all the free taxpayer paid for needles, that are poluting our City.

I love the system Vernon has or did have. It is called the blue bag – you buy blue plastic bags and you get a list of what can Not go in the bag. Then they have a private group like AIMHI do the pick up, sorting, etc., and they make a profit from the recyling. At the time I was in Vernon the fee was only $2.50 a month and the bag was picked up every two weeks.

Good for Bill Gaal for catching this one and saving the city a lot of money. Recycling companies are in it for one reason, “money” how much money can be made by pulling the heart strings of saving the planet. In the mean while countries like China and India are polluting the world’s air without regard of their fellow man; producing junk that we North Americans are so apt to buy up at our local discount store. The city of Prince George has some good facilities for recycling. Check out the transfer station across from the West Gate turnoff. I go there on a regular bases and recycle to my heart’s content.