Thursday, Loraas Recycle made the rounds in Dundurn, rolling out their blue recycling carts.
The town became the latest of area municipalities making the move to curbside recycling collection. The residential recycling program will replace all the big, blue metal bins that comprise the Community Recycling Centre beside Dundurn’s fire hall.
Dundurn Mayor Doug Narraway said his wife notified him immediately Thursday morning when their blue bin arrived in their Dundurn yard. “She just texted me. She’s pretty excited,” he said.
Narraway said he’s heard “only a couple of grumblings” about the move to curbside recycling; instead, “a lot of people are excited” about the switch.
Each residence in Dundurn that has black garbage bin service received a rollout blue cart for their recyclable materials. The blue carts will be picked up biweekly, alternating with the black waste bin collection.
Loraas Recycle uses a single-stream recycling program. People are not required to sort their recyclable materials. Everything is placed in the bin altogether, allowing people to divert more than 50 per cent of their household waste from the landfill.
Narraway’s convinced that once people experience the convenience of no longer having to stockpile their recyclables and then haul the stuff downtown to the metal bins, residents will embrace the change.
“The people I’ve talked to have been really positive about it,” Narraway said, adding that once people realize how much material they can recycle instead of throwing it into the garbage, they’ll be impressed.
The town and the R.M. of Dundurn shared the costs of the Community Recycling Centre, which has been in place for nearly a decade. While it offered residents a place to take their recyclables, Narraway said often times because people from the R.M., Thode, Shields and the town were using the bins, “sometimes they would be so full our people in town couldn’t use them.”
To read more please see the March 3 print edition of The Davidson Leader.