
Montreal’s move to biweekly trash pick up proving to be a slow process
MONTREAL — The garbage may be piling up and causing some disgruntlement on the sidewalks of a few Montreal streets, but municipal officials say it’s all part of a plan to become a zero-waste city by the year 2030.
And they say their plan is working.
“People are making progress in their thinking, realizing that when they participate in the recycling collection, the organic waste collection, that there is not much waste left,” Marie-Andrée Mauger said.
As a member of the city’s executive committee in charge of ecological transition in Mayor Valérie Plante’s Projet Montréal party, Mauger is the point person overseeing a switch that has reduced the frequency of garbage collection in some neighbourhoods to a biweekly pickup.