If you’re not sorting your recyclables, you’ll want to get in that habit.
Starting Monday, municipalities in Yarmouth County will increase enforcement on 2-bag recycling.
Gus Green with Waste Check says they heard from the recycling facility in Kentville that too many bags were ‘co-mingled.’
“We’ve always asked people to put their paper products in one bag, and containers in the other. Scotia Recycling invested quite a bit of money in upgrading their sorting equipment for containers,” said Green.
He says when paper and containers are together, the optical sorters can’t see what’s underneath the paper, and a lot ends up in the landfill.
Green says bags not properly sorted will have a sticker placed on them.
“The municipalities have asked their haulers to be more diligent and look at these bags, and if they’re not sorted properly, they’ll get left behind.”
Green acknowledges that many in the municipality have been using 2-bag recycling, and thanks them for their efforts.
