Comments on: The city and the people working as one — NOT

By: dp

dp — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:46:29 +0000

From the Plateau-Mont-Royal website explaining the use of “garbage trucks” to pick up recyclables.

“GrÆ’‚ce la modernisation des Æ’‚©quipements du centre de tri, la collecte est maintenant effectuÆ’‚©e Æ’‚ l’aide de camions tasseurs nettoyÆ’‚©s et adaptÆ’‚©s pour recevoir les matiÆ’‚¨res recyclables.”

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=98,1482603&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:48:15 +0000

Thanks kkjensen! — How does it get sorted if it all goes into the same truck and crushed big time?

Keep in mind that glass bottles also go into that truck and get smashed up with everything else.

By: kkjensen

kkjensen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:08:35 +0000

I'm also in Quebec (Chateauguay though) and it's contracted out here...maybe they're just using a garbage truck but it'll still get recycled? Extracting paper from crushed cans would be tough though. Recycled material is worth quite a bit so I can't imagine them throwing it out if it's already sorted. A truck full of collected paper got stolen in Calgary while I was in school there...why???...the contents were untraceable and worth over $20K.