I have no problem paying the private recycling business to pick up my recycling every two weeks. To me it's worth $15 a month. I see the overflowing garbage bins every week and it's disgusting how much ends up in the landfill. We can't afford curbside recycling right now but a move towards that direction would be great.

Gee I have a concept, reopen the shutdown swap sheds. Was not that recycling? That was a dumb a** move if there ever was one. Do you folks know one of the reasons for shutting them down, people picking up the goods may sell them, hello who cares. No wonder this city is so goofed up.

I don't put a piece of paper in the garbage, I don't put a piece of cardboard in the garbage, I don't put a piece of glass in the garbage, I don't put a piece of plastic in the garbage, I don't put a tin can in the garbage, I don't put a beverage can in the garbage!! I wish I knew how to deal with styrofoam. Wal-Mart takes my plastic bags.

OK, I may throw the odd item away, but with the above attitude, it is cut to a minimum! I am 57 years old, and my children shamed me into the recycle thing several years ago. I am now an extreme recycler, and proud of it.

Thank you Sarah, Justin, Mike, and Jezelle

if everyone thought and acted like taxinapothole we wouldnt have to worry about hearing of these high costs for curbside recycling...it wouldnt be needed! people are just too lazy in general, if its not convenient for them they couldn't be bothered. pretty sad if you ask me.

nice work taxinapothole.

Why do we have garbage pickup? We can dump it ourselves.

We no longer get mail delivery to the house in new subdivisions.

I do not understand why we don't develop new subdivisions off the sanitary sewer grid, the water grid, the gas grid, the electrical grid?

To me all this talk and no action for decades is absolutely primitive. This was supposed to happen when the then new foothills landfill was opened. There is a cost to operating the landfill. But more so, there is a cost to filling it up more quickly than it should be filled. What part of that do people not understand?

If this city wants to continue to have the citizens recycle, they should be provind many more transfer stations. Where are they anyway? One on 18th. A few newspaper and cardboard bins around.

It would be nice to know how much they get in thought that way.

We are the same as Taxi other than the tin can part. Brought the garden stuff cleaned up over the weekend's prep for winter to the 18th transfer station today. That was an 8km round trip. $0.50 cents for gas? 20 minutes + out of my time. The paper/cardboard recycler bin is 3.5km away. So 7km round trip. Try to do this in conjunction with other trips.

So what percentage of the population does this? 15% to 20% is my guesstimate. Just not good enough.

Munoz is right on the money. This is what is called a "sustainability" calculation or true life cycle costing which includes ALL costs inot the forseeable future.

As with all the other municipal services, I wpould be very surprised if the total cost were more with a full city-wide recycleables collection system than the total cost of all that being done the way it is now.

What about more drop off points??
There should be these sites at all corners of the city, within residential communities.

with the following
1. Large metal bins that accept coloured Glass
2. Large metal bins that accept clear glass.
3. Large bins to accept Plastics (bottles ect.)

and of course papers & cardboard.

I have used these in other cities and they are a great service.

I do it already and don't pay a dime, except for my time, to recycle. Those who don't bother or are too lazy to, won't suddenly be inspired to if there is a program in place. Just my opinion.

Kamloops has implemented curb side pick-up
I've been told they don't even have to sort the items - just throw them all into the recycle bin and it gets sorted at the recycle centre. What a convenience.

wonder what it costs them??

Posted by cheeta....wonder what it costs them?? {Kamloops} Our city leaders are too stupid to ask Kamloops. We would sooner do a $$$$$$ mega study of our own. Hey city admin. If there is already a good blueprint out there,just follow it instead of always printing a new and often inferior one.

I can't believe we are still having a discussion about recycling. We are still acting like dinosaurs. Mr. Mayor and City Counsellors, we hired you to run the city. Take some leadership and lead. Make some decisions and quit pussy footing around. My goodness, how do we get from one year to the next with these folks?

This isn't the first recycling issue other community's have faced. Can we make a few phone calls and see who is running a successful recycling program and the associated costs and benefits?

I moved here from Chilliwack, B.C. where the population is similar, yet it seems less 'city - like'. They have curbside recycling. When I moved here I was shocked to see that the only way to properly handle your recycling is to drive it to the depot. We are supposed to be promoting green living: recycle your garbage and take the bus whenever you can - but apparently in Prince George if you want to recycle, you need a car. It sickens me to see all the garbage cans filled with with plastics and paper that is not being recycled. It is embarassing to see how behind the city is. Cost should not be a factor (this is not to negate the importance of due diligence when implementing a plan), and where I came from, it was not an issue to pay a bit more for recycling pick up. The total garbage with recycling pick up was $10 per household. That was for one large garbage can and unlimited recycling per week. We did not have to sort the recycling at all, which make it really convenient.