Mobile Edition – Parksville Qualicum Beach News
The new agency in charge of a producer-pay recycling system coming for all packaging and printed paper is now promising to give cities more time to decide how they’ll participate. Multi Material BC had come under fire from civic leaders who are protesting what they call unreasonable terms for their cities to act as curbside recycling collectors when the new system launches next spring. Much criticism centred on a Sept. 16 deadline for cities to either commit to a collection contract with MMBC, let the agency contract out blue box pickup to other collectors or else keep running recycling services without compensation from MMBC…