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The week of September 26, 2025
COUNCIL WISH LIST will be presented at the UBCM in Victoria P.4
HERITAGE TOUR Columnist Randey Brophy shares his adventures in the UK P.8
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NEW BINS ON THEIR WAY
Pink for plastics Grey for glass New bins will make recycling more convenient By Keith Fielding
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Coming to a curbside near you, May 1, 2026.
hen it comes to recycling and garbage collection most of us seem to know what we can and can’t put into our blue bin, our green bin and our black bin--which is not to say we might not sneak a glass jar into one of them when no-one is looking, or get a brain fog while wondering what to do with a piece of bubble wrap. However, survey information suggests that knowledge is one thing and behaviour another.
Bin content inspections carried periodically by the Regional District reveal a wide spectrum of compliance with the rules. At one end is the spectrum is the person who carefully removes the paper from a tin of baked beans, washes out the can, drops it into their blue box and repeats that process for tomato soup, corned beef and all other qualifying metal containers. Paper and cardboard are similarly prepped so that nothing SEE BINS PAGE 7
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