“Our contamination rates are on the rise,” according to Jeremy Garner, director of Public Works and Utilities.
Contamination of FSJ recycling is averaging 4 percent higher than the target levels set out in the Recycle BC contract, as a result, Recycle BC requires the city to develop a written contamination reduction plan.
“We have an agreement with Recycle BC, they accept our collected recycling, and they sell it to other processing facilities to use. Our agreement says we have to have our contamination at less than five percent by weight,” Garner said in a presentation to the city’s April 14 Committee of the Whole meeting.
If the recycling contamination is not reduced immediately and dramatically, Recycle BC may refuse to accept any more product from Fort St. John. This would force the city to pay to have the product disposed of at the landfill, incurring an estimated $60,000 in additional disposal fees and forfeiting $250,000 in annual revenue.
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