What is the incentive to recycle?
It makes economic sense. Since the only charge is for the waste portion of the service, there is a real incentive for participants to recycle as much as possible. The more material that gets diverted from the waste stream through the blue and black box programs, means greater saving of the City’s valuable landfill space. In addition, harmonizing Yellow Bag collection service with residential collection reduces the number of times garbage trucks travel our streets, and works towards keeping cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing curbsides. One of the big benefits to small businesses is that they can also put out the equivalent of 15 containers of recyclables for alternate bi-weekly curbside blue and black box recycling collection. This represents a real bargain at a total price of $3 per bag. The more an establishment recycles, the more they save!
