The RM of Cote council and staff are being aggravated by residents’ irresponsible use of the RM’s garbage receptacles which add unnecessary costs to refuse management.
Last week came the latest insult, when staff found a couple old mattresses and a deep freeze left beside the five bins located about nine kilometres east of Kamsack.
“The garbage bins are for household garbage only; no appliances, mattresses or anything like that are permitted,” said information from the RM office.
“The RM of Cote has recyclingbins at the RM shop for ratepayers to use,” it said.
“We are very disappointed in what some people think can be recycled,” said a letter from Grant See, chair of the Parkland Regional Waste Management Authority. “We can only recycle clean cardboard, newspaper, flyers, office paper (shredded or not) milk jugs and milk cartons and most plastics.
“We cannot recycle but do receive yard waste, bale wrap and twine, children’s toys, automotive parts, grain bags, building materials like two-by-fours, pallets, gyprock, demolishing waste, furniture, cat litter, dog poop, clothing and spoiled freezer food,” See said.
“There is a difference between recycle bins and garbage bins and for the most part they are clearly marked but somehow some of the public cannot differentiate between them,” he said, asking members of the authority to inform the public of the difficulties they are causing and the extra costs involved with separating garbage from co-mingled recycle material.
