Recycling Collection Drops To Twice Monthly
Today [Aug.9] the Department of Waste management within the Ministry of Public Works announced that, beginning August 1, 2011 residential recycling pick up changed from weekly to fortnightly.
A spokesperson said, “The Waste Management Department carries out monitoring of waste pick up including recycling and has found that many households are not recycling and in most cases, the bags containing recyclable materials were arriving and the Material Recovery Facility only half full.”
“In an effort to be more cost effective, residential recycling pick up will now take place every two weeks. The Ministry thanks the public for their understanding as this new schedule is implemented.”
Residential Recycling Pick up will now be on the following dates:
August Recycling Collection
- West End Recycling will be collected on Thursday 4th, and Thursday 18th.
- East End Recycling will be collected on Friday 5th and Friday 19th.
September Recycling Collection
- West End Recycling will be collected on Thursday 1th, Thursday 15th and Thursday 29th.
- East End Recycling will be collected on Friday 2th, Friday 16th and Friday 30th.
October Recycling Collection
- West End Recycling will be collected on Thursday 13th, and Thursday 27th.
- East End Recycling will be collected on Friday 14th and Friday 28th.
November Recycling Collection
- West End Recycling will be collected on Wednesday 9th, and Thursday 24th.
- East End Recycling will be collected on Thursday 10th and Friday 25th.
December Recycling Collection
- West End Recycling will be collected on Thursday 8th, and Thursday 22nd.
- East End Recycling will be collected on Friday 9th and Friday 23rd.
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“Our failure to properly communicate the need for and rules of recycling means that not many people are doing it. So, we will respond by making the recycling programme even less convenient.”
Doing less with less.
Damn, missed today’s pickup so I now have to hang on to it until the 19th. The rats will be happy. Or I could just put it into a regular bag and put it out with Tuesday’s trash.
Why bother recycling at all?
This inconvenience is proudly brought to you by the PLP gover(n)ment.
Its a pitty, because now people will recycle even less. Who wants to hold on to old tins and bottles for 2 weeks, then maybe miss the date once. There will be blue bags along the road side for weeks because people put them out on the wrong days.Rats will love it.
The biggest problem with recycling here is that blue bags are totally overcharged, even more expensive than regular trashbag. In other countries people get free bags for recycling, marked clearly what should be in the bag and what is a violation.
so will the cost of the outsourcing (Talbots) the recyclable pickups be cut in half?
I remember when I was a kid there was an incentive to recycle. In fact, my friends and I used to collect aluminum cans and our parents would drive us and our aluminum to the recycling plant for cash back. Was great! We’d go to concerts and outdoor events once they were over, collect cans, crush them to fit more in the bags and walk away with substantial coin. Pitt & Co used to have contests where you’d trade in bottle caps for beach towels and umbrellas. We’d collect then too!
Personally, I’m fine with twice a month recycling pick-up. And thanks for such a good trash pickup service in my neighbourhood.