This ain’t recycling folks!

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Published on Friday, October 14, 2016

Photo by Kate Jackman-Atkinson. One of the many open access blue recycling bins in Neepawa, shown in a photo taken last week.

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

The Town of Neepawa goes to great efforts to make recycling easy. Blue bins are for recycling, but as is obvious from this photo, there’s a lot more than recycling going into the open access blue bins.

Contaminated bins, such as this one, will not likely be sortable and may well result in the whole bin going to garbage. In addition, a $75 per tonne tipping fee is charged to the taxpayers by the landfill.

Editors note: While household recycling in Neepawa appears to work very well and commercial recycling works if random garbage dumping can be avoided, the open access blue bins are a waste of time and money. They are expensive and don’t accomplish the intended purpose. And don’t be blaming the contractors, TAC Ventures, as it’s the people who contaminate the blue bins who are clearly to blame.