City residents should keep an eye on their mailboxes this week for new information about the incoming curbside recycling program.
According to Multi-Material BC - the organization representing producers of packaging and printed paper that the province mandated as responsible for collection - Prince George homeowners will get mailouts this week about the program slated to start Sept. 2.
Delivery of two recycling boxes and recycling guides will begin July 21 to approximately 22,000 single-family homes already receiving curbside garbage collection. There will be two blue bins dropped off by Emterra Environmental - one for metal and plastic containers and paper packaging that held liquid when sold and a smaller one for newsprint, cardboard and household paper.
Glass bottles and jars, plastic bags and plastic foam packaging are not going to be accepted in the curbside boxes, but can be dropped off - along with all other materials right now - to the Hart Return-It Centre or P.G. Recycling and Return-It Centre on Petersen Road.
B.C. producers of packaging and printed paper became responsible for collecting material they introduced into the market on May 19.
