The collection vehicle will drop the recyclables off at the recycling contractor in 100 Mile House, where the material will be bailed and stored until it is shipped to the lower mainland where it will be processed/sorted for recycling.

Glass and polystyrene foam will break during the collection and bailing process. The glass shards and polystyrene fragments will contaminate the remaining PPP, making it difficult or impractical to recycle. The glass shards also create hazards for anyone who handles the materials. Air separation is one of the methods used to sort some of the paper products from the remaining PPP in the sorting process, and plastic bags act like paper in this process, which contaminates the paper products.

No, you may choose to put your totes out only when they are full. This means you may only put your garbage tote out twice a month and the recycling tote out once a month but be sure the recycling tote only goes out on a designated collection day.

In order to provide PPP collection to the 108 Mile Ranch, the CRD entered into a contract with MMBC to receive funds to help pay for the service. The funds were only enough to provide bi-weekly collection; weekly collection would have meant a tax increase.

No, on Wednesdays the garbage will be collected in the morning and taken to the landfill, the truck will then return in the afternoon to collect the recyclables. On Thursday morning the recyclables will be collected first, and the truck will take all the recyclables, including the material collected on Wednesday, to the recycling contractors. Then the truck will return in the afternoon to collect the Thursday garbage. On the days that both garbage and recycling are collected your totes may not be emptied until 4:30 or 5:00 p.m., please allow this time for your totes to be emptied.

No, totes should be put out by 7:30 a.m. the day of collection. Totes put out the night before can attract wildlife, especially bears.