For the past several years, my wife and I have been conscientiously recycling our paper, cans and bottles using the services of a locally-owned company that, for a small fee, picked them up in blue bags twice a month. Since both of us are in wheelchairs, this service made it possible to "do the right thing."
Now, however, the new huge conglomerate that has been mandated to take over the recycling tells us we must use their blue boxes, and that they will not accept materials in blue bags. There is no way either of us can carry these bins to the curbside particularly in the snowy season.
So the only option for us is clear: our recyclables will go into the regular garbage and be taken to the landfill. For us--and I expect for many others with mobility impairments--recycling is no longer possible in Prince George. Somehow that does not sound like progress.
Ralph Allan
Prince George
