City of Prince Rupert releases schedule for garbage/reccyling collection for 2022

The 2022 City of Prince Rupert collection routes for Garbage and Recycling
(click to enlarge)

A consistent day for your weekly pick up of garbage is one of the first features of note for the City of Prince Rupert Garbage/Recycling collection program for 2022.

The Map and Calendar for collection was posted to the City of Prince Rupert Facebook page on Monday and residents will no longer it seems be required to do the Monthly calendar shuffle, with the date of pick up to remain the same for the majority of the twelve months for 2022.

The 2022 Calendar feature a consistent collection day for the most part
(from City of Prince Rupert - click to enlarge)

In their advisory of Monday, the city notes that residents can determine their pick up areas and date of collection as follows:

The areas identified on the map represent the breakdown of curbside collection areas starting January 2022. To determine the collection dates in your colour-coded area, please refer to the map and corresponding schedule showing the dates for each colour. Note that 2 colours are covered each collection day.

More notes on the City's Garbage and Recycling themes can be found from the City website.

Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain from a video earlier this year
outlining the city's plans for garbage and recycling collection

So far however, there has been no further guidance on how the city's Blue Bin Recycling program will rollout. 

The last we heard of the program coming from the City's Operations Director Richard Pucci who as we outlined from our notes of the November 22nd City Council Session observed that his Department would be messaging the community prior to the launch. 

At that November 22nd session Mr. Pucci did note that residents will be offered the opportunity to exchange their current grey garbage cans for larger ones, with a switchover fee and annual fee in place for those larger cans.

"So we'll be messaging that in the campaign moving forward ... there is going to be a one time fee to switch out the can and then there is an annual fee for a larger can, that  we will then be putting on the utilities for that household, so that is rolled into this bylaw" -- Director of operations Richard Pucci speaking to City Council on November 22nd.

To this point however, that messaging campaign on the Blue Bin launch has yet to start

At the most recent City Council Session held on December 6th, City Council gave final approval to the new schedule of fees and charges for  a range of services including their Solid Waste Bylaw, which includes new items of note on Garbage and Recycling.

You can explore some of the background towards their decisions from our notes here.

More notes on the history of the city's ambitions towards the Garbage and Recycling program can be found here.

A wider overview of past Council Discussion themes is available here.