Blue Bin recycling pickup was restored in Sechelt on July 25 after three weeks without the service, thanks to the penning of a processing agreement that’s in place until 2019.
Dispute over the contract price for processing of Blue Bin materials led Sechelt to suspend the service on July 4, after Blue Bin contractor Direct Disposal dumped several truckloads of recyclables at Sechelt’s public works yard.
Direct Disposal had been without a contract for processing since March.
“Once that happened our response was ‘well, you better not pick things up then,’” Sechelt Mayor Bruce Milne said.
In the weeks that followed, a suitable agreement was reached between the two parties.
Milne said the contract itself is still in camera so specific details couldn’t be released this week; however, he noted the contract provides more money to Direct Disposal for Blue Bin material processing.
“It’s all just more money,” Milne said.
“This is all in my view public information and public funds so we’re happy enough to release it, but not until I go through the right process.”
Milne expects the in camera contract to come to next week’s regular council meeting for release to the public.
The resolution on the processing side of things tidies up the full contract Sechelt has with Direct Disposal that provides for garbage and recycling pickup in the district.
“So the garbage pickup, which is the first third of their contract, and the recycling Blue Bin pickup are both continuing under original terms to 2019 and now we have the remainder of the contract secured for the processing side [until 2019],” Milne said.
