Posted:
May 12, 2021
Three yellow bin depots moving June 1
Three community yellow bin depots will soon be removed in Sparwood and Elkford as changes in the way residential recycling is handled aim to shift more recyclables into the Recycle BC system.
“The provincially-regulated Recycle BC program is changing the way we manage our residential recycling. It not only provides more options for residents, it provides guaranteed markets at a time when smaller, independent programs are struggling to find markets and experiencing unprecedented high costs when they do,” explained Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Environmental Services Manager Kevin Paterson. “Recycle BC is only for residential recycling, so the yellow bin program remains in place at businesses, schools, and in our rural areas; however, we are moving away from having collections of yellow bins – known as community depots – in our municipalities in order to encourage those recyclables to be taken to the