Curbside Recycling in Quesnel - Sept 2/14

Courtesy of Multi-Materials BC:

This week, Quesnel residents will start to receive information by mail about the city’s new curbside recycling program, whichstarts September 2, 2014. The program, managed by Multi-Material BC (MMBC) on behalf of businesses that supply packaging and printed paper to residents, will collect those materials for recycling from approximately 3,300 Quesnel residences.

Starting July 21 and continuing until late August, households slated for curbside recycling collection will receive two new recycling boxes—a smaller one for newsprint, cardboard, and household papers, and a larger one for metal containers, plastic containers, and paper packaging that held liquid when sold—and a recycling guide that outlines how to sort materials. The boxes and guides will be delivered by Emterra Environmental, the company that MMBC selected to collect recycling from Quesnel households.

“We are pleased to be making it easier for Quesnel residents to divert packaging and printed paper from the landfill,” said Allen Langdon, Managing Director of MMBC. “Increasing access to curbside recycling is one of the objectives of our program.”
Materials that will be accepted in the curbside collection program include newsprint, paper, cardboard, plastic containers, metal containers, aerosol containers, milk cartons, and foil and plastic take-out containers.

Additional details about the curbside recycling program, including the full list of materials that will be accepted, are available on MMBC’s website atwww.RecyclingInBC.ca. Quesnel residents can also download a smartphone app for personal recycling collection reminders by searching Multi-Material BC in smartphone app stores or visiting www.RecyclingInBC.ca/quesnel.

MMBC is among more than 20 Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs introduced in British Columbia over the past two decades, which has seen industry assume responsibility for end-of-life management of items such as beverage containers, electronics, paint, used oil, tires and batteries. The concept behind EPR is to make businesses responsible for collecting and recycling the products they supply into the BC marketplace.

About MMBC
In May 2011, BC's Recycling Regulation was updated to include packaging and printed paper. The regulation shifts the responsibility for managing the residential recycling of packaging and printed paper from regional and municipal governments and their taxpayers to business.

Multi-Material BC (MMBC) is a non-profit industry-led and financed organization that assumed responsibility for managing residential packaging and printed paper recycling on behalf of industry in May 2014.

More information, including lists of MMBC collectors and members, is available at www.multimaterialbc.ca

Media Contact:
Sarah Stephen, 778-588-9505, sstephen@multimaterialbc.ca