Saint-Jean-Port-Joli: the collection of brown bins is coming soon
When we ask the mayor of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Normand Caron, about his motivations for establishing the collection of organic materials, the reasons given are first of all economic.
“If in 2023, a municipality like Saint-Jean-Port-Joli does nothing to do this recovery, we lose our royalties at the level of RECYQ-QUÉBEC, so for Saint-Jean-Port-Joli it is an amount $170,000 a year,” he explains.
This novelty will also allow the municipality to save on transport costs since the composting center is located 3 times less far than the waste landfill site. “We have known what has been happening with transport costs for 2 years . In the new agreement, transportation costs have doubled,” noted the mayor.
Unlike many smaller municipalities in the MRC de L’Islet, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli has decided to opt for door-to-door pick-up. “RECYC-QUÉBEC is asking to proceed in urban areas with door-to-door pick-up. says Normand Caron. “It’s very difficult to put composters if on apartment blocks, for example, when there are 6 apartments in a block: who is going to take care of the composters and all that? “, he adds.
Moreover, according to the mayor, this option is more popular with the population.
The municipality plans to distribute nearly 1,500 bins to its residents with the goal of starting to collect them in the summer of 2023.