By James Peters

Can’t wait to get rid of your recyclables? Here are your options

Dec 29, 2016 | 11:15 AM

KAMLOOPS — Many Kamloops residents are in the middle of a nearly two-week wait for the City of Kamloops to come by and collect their garbage and recycling.

Three stat holidays within a couple of weeks tends to leave some people holding onto their gift wrap and boxes for much longer than they’d like.

Streets and Environmental Services Manager Glen Farrow says if you can hold onto it and use your curbside bin, that’s the way to go.

“The best is to continue breaking down all that product so it fits all in your bin properly, so when you do tip the bin, all that product comes out,” said Farrow.

“We have had experience where too much is jammed in and it doesn’t get properly emptied when our trucks tip the bin.”

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Farrow notes, if you must get rid of it before garbage day, you can drop it off at the city’s landfills, recycling depots or directly to Emterra Environmental, the city’s contracted recycling processor.

“At both of our landfills, we have lots of bins set up there for the extra waste. As well, there are other recycling depots around town — the one at Ord Road, the one at Bunker Road — and then there are three (Multi-Material BC-sponsored) recycling depots that also accept all of that kind of product.”

The Ord Road recycling depot will only be open for the next few days, however, since council voted to close the facility.

“This will be our last Christmas season with the Ord Road recycling depot,” said Farrow. “It will be closing January 1.”