Town looking to clear up recycling confusion

Jan. 23, 2019

by Morinville News Staff

The Town of Morinville and GFL, the Town’s solid waste, compost and recycling hauler, are holding an open house on the new recycling changes introduced earlier this month. The event will be held in Council Chambers at Town Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 29 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

“The purpose of the scheduled Information Session … is to inform and educate attendees regarding the recent changes surrounding the recycling markets and impact on municipalities and their residents,” said Morinville’s Director of Public Works. “There will be a short presentation from our service provider being Green for Life (GFL), including some specific items to visually look at in order to answer questions around various plastic grades, clamshell containers and other items that have contributed to several questions from the end users.”

Valcourt went on to say the joint presentation will be followed by a Q&A portion both to GFL and Town staff.

The Jan. 29 event will be filmed and posted online the following day.
Valcourt said he is hoping to see significant interest both through the event and online when the video is posted.

The Town of Morinville has an app on the Town website that is also available for Apple and Android. Links to all can be found at https://www.morinville.ca/services/waste-management.

Later this year, Roseridge will be holding an open house and Take-It-Or-Leave-It event.

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30 Comments

  1. I put my recycle out if they pick it up great if not it goes in the garbage bin for the following week … I quit stressing over it … I got better things to concern myself over

  2. This should have been done before they made the changes. Three weeks in a row they haven’t taken our recycling and then it just goes in the garbage. Which is unfortunate.

  3. Can I just trade my recycle bin for a garbage bin? Council missed the boat on their new policy. It’s not going to encourage anything other than citizens ceasing to recycle. Every time they tag any of my bags which in most other cities would be considered legitimate recycling I’m just throwing the bag in the garbage… hope that’s what the new policy was aiming for.

  4. I cant see many people digging through their blue bag to find the 2 or 3 offending pieces of trash and digging them out. It will just all get thrown in the trash.

  5. I recall seeing plastics with 1 and 2 can be recycled. My fruit clam shells from Costco had one of those. But were left. I am impressed though. The crew took everything of mine and just left the 2 things.

  6. I am glad there will be a video. I sorted through last weeks bag and I was sure I “aced” it this week. Nope. A napkin held it up this week.. I am hoping next week I pass

  7. It has come to the point one does know what goes into recycle and what does not. Less and less goes into recycle but the cost goes up always. Not good!

  8. i was told no lids on the containers……no plastic bags, no styrofoam, no SHREDDED paper(seriously????) no clamshells, no glass jars(like pickle jars) So basically cardboard, that is it……….i think we need to look into Calahoo Waste as a garbage pick up. They already do it in Cardiff….and are MUCH better. they have reduced the amount of garbage we can toss, they have GREATLY reduced our recycling options……..we are a family of 6 and therefore produce more garbage than say a family of 2 or 3. I know i can get another garbage bin for $80/month, but i’d rather pay a teen with a pick up truck to take it. I’m sure there are some out there that are looking to make some easy cash, perhaps a few of us should look and hire one.

  9. The rules keep changing ,just when you think you’ve got it right! GFL are as much to blame,some drivers are pretty arrogant,some are okay.The whole garbage system is a shambles !!!

    • The event is not happening until Tuesday, Jan. 29. The plan is for the Town to record the session and upload it Jan. 30.

      When they post it, we’ll share it.

  10. Is this what happens when an entire industry is built around offshoring? We have just been passing our problem on to somewhere else and now they’ve had enough?

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