It's likely you will have extra recycling after unwrapping presents on Christmas, and that you're home will be overrun with wrapping paper, tape, boxes, ribbons and bowS.

If your blue bin is filled to the brim, you might find it tempting to put any extra recycling beside the bin. Leanne Moreira, Education Coordinator with Waste & Recycling at the City of Airdrie, explained that plan won't pay off.

"If there's any extra recycling beside the blue cart, it will not get collected and it might actually impede your blue cart from being collected, so we ask that any extra recycling you have, you can bring it down to the Recycle Depot which will be open on December 26."

Moreira said extra recycling won't be collected in order to ensure efficiency. Recycling trucks have an automated arm that picks up and dumps the bins, and recycling is not collected by hand.

"If we were to have our drivers collect more bags and put it into the carts, it would slow things down and they wouldn't be done until probably well after midnight."

Moreira said the Recycle Depot will be open on Boxing day for you to get rid of any extra recycling.

"We will accept all the regular materials: Wrapping paper, cardboard, paper as well as electronics, batteries and packaging styrofoam. Or you can put all those materials in your cart for the next week's collection excluding packaging styrofoam."

 

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