Each household will receive a city-provided garbage cart at no cost.
Corner Brook’s garbage collection contract with Murphy’s is coming to an end, and the city is looking at a new seven year contract that could start to be phased in early in the new year. City staff completed costing options and issued a tender but only received on bid from Murphy’s. Mayor Jim Parsons says council voted in favour of an automated weekly garbage collection using automated collection arms. Each household will receive a city-provided garbage cart at no cost. There will also be a bi-weekly recycling collection, sorted into two alternating streams for paper, plastic and metal. Parsons says this will take about 6 months to put this in place and get containers to residents. He says the cost is $1.4M a year to collect garbage plus another 7-800K on tipping fees at Wild Cove.
$12M project at the Curling westside reservoir will pave the way for 300 new houses
Seven young women from the west coast awarded scholarships
Government calls for Early Childhood Educator Steering Committee to be formed
Over $35M announced for 10 water and sewer projects on the west coast, including $12M for Curling reservoir
Woman dies from injuries after a single vehicle crash near Bonavista Thursday night
