Recycling pick up schedule changed
In order to cut costs, residential recycling will now be picked up once every two weeks instead of once a week, the Department of Waste Management announced yesterday.
The change is expected to reduce the cost of Bermuda’s recycling programme by more than half.
The Department decided to reduce collections after noticing that most of the bags of recyclable materials were arriving at their facility only half full.
Tin and aluminium collected here is shipped back to the United States where it is melted down and turned back into new cans. Glass stays in Bermuda to be used as a fill material in construction work.
The schedule for residential recycling pick up can be found in the Blue Pages of the phone book and online at www.wastemanagement.gov.bm.
To report missed collections, call Butterfield Excavation Limited at 238-1066 or the Material Recovery Officer, Stephen Gilbert, at 501-3024.
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Published Aug 16, 2012 at 8:00 am (Updated Aug 16, 2012 at 8:51 am)