Sunday, May 13, 2012

City of WL attempt to make recycling opportunities at various locations...

At their May 8th meeting - Williams Lake City Council received a delegation of Grade 7 Mountview Elementary students requesting that the City make available recycling containers to allow people to recycle pop bottles, etc and thus would allow the City to maintain a more cleaner image.  Upon question from Council - the City's General Manager of Planning & Operations, Geoff Goodall, confirmed that the City would be employing a trial run to allow individuals to recycle various items at garbage receptacles throughout the City of Williams Lake.

See below for the final product



As you can see above - there isn't a lot of room for people to place recyclables like pop cans/bottles and the like.  As one person pointed out to me - if the City had invested in a seperate reycling receptacle and took all of the recyclables to AMANDA Enterprises to get the deposit back - the payback for the recycle receptacles could have been achieved in less than two years.  But the City should be congradulated for making this 'small step' to allow further recycling opportunities throughout the municipality

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

To say that the deposits would have paid for the seperate receptacles is false in my opinion as someone will grab the bottles/cans for themselves before the city would ever get to them. Even now there are many people digging thru the trash around town looking for bottles/cans, this will just make it easier and cleaner for them.