The former Civic Centre recycling bins will sit at the southwest corner of Sobey's parking lot for now. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy |
The seven Civic Centre recycling bins won’t be moved for now.
During Monday’s executive committee meeting, executive unanimously voted in favour of Coun. Brian Swanson’s motion to table the decision to possibly move the bins currently occupying the southwest corner of Sobey’s parking lot on Thatcher Drive East pending a report from administration with a list of contaminated sites in the city.
“If we’re going to do an environmental initiative - and I’m not saying this is the way to go, but I’d certainly like to consider - is what about recycling one of these sites that we have,” said Swanson. “They’re not going to be developed. There’s very restrictive legislation now about dealing with these sites. They’ve sat, some of them for decades and I’m just wondering what about those possibilities?”
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