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Re: Recycling in Public Parks
2012-01-31 12:02:01 UTC
I am currently implementing public recycling for the Township of Langley in BC Canada on both our streets and in our public parks. We have decided to implement a container stream for recycling in our parks.
We ordered barrels that were the same as the garbage barrels and budded them up against one another. The one for containers is painted "recycling blue" and has a decal that says bottle and cans. We have found these barrels to be very successful for a few reasons. First, the hole size of your bin must be restricted so that only a bottle or can will fit. Coffee cups are the main contaminants but if the hole is small enough the coffee cups won't fit because they widen at the top. Also we found we had almost zero contamination once we added a flapper under the hole.
We have done a few audits and are finding no recyclables in the garbage stream
and for the most part our container bins are being serviced by the public because we keep them unlocked.
One of the problems we are having is that if the public are taking the containers they tend to take the bags as well and then this becomes problematic for our crews who come to empty the non-refunables. We are looking into an "adopt-a-can" program, whereby non-profit groups and sports clubs could adopt all the cans at the par. We would lock the cans and that group would be responsible for emptying the containers.
Any thoughts? has anyone done an adopt-a-can program?
Tess Rutley
Solid Waste Coordinator
Township of Langley
Canada
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