Taber improving recycling


BY TREVOR BUSCH insight magazine


Since the implementation of the Town of


Taber’s three-cart recycling, compost and garbage pickup system, the municipality has seen significant improvement in its diversion rates. “We’ve reduced the number of trucks leaving the transfer station


every month,so the more our diversion rate increases with people using the carts correctly, the less trucks we have to pay for to leave the transfer station, which is absolutely phenomenal,”said town com- munications co-ordinator Meghan Brennan.“We’ve also got a 60 - 70 per cent monthly diversion rate. It’s been incredible, the public have really stepped up to support this program, and it’s because of them


that we have such incredible diversion rates.” New recycling items are being added to the system on a semi-regu- lar basis to make improvements in the types of things people don’t simply have to throw away. “We now take styrofoam in our transfer station and our big bins behind Home Hardware,and we also take fluorescent tubing.And we keep trying to add more and more strange items that you can’t neces- sarily put in the blue cart, but you still want to recycle.The more we add, the more people can recycle,” said Brennan.


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