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Why Kamloopsians will be paying more for their recycling

KAMLOOPS – The cost of processing the material collected in the Kamloops recycling program is going up and that cost is being passed onto homeowners in the city. Residents will be paying roughly $17 more per year in recycling fees in the New Year. The city is citing the recently renewed recycling contract with Emterra...

Cost of recycling may increase as Kamloops looks to renew contract

KAMLOOPS – Emterra Environmental may be awarded the City of Kamloops’ recycling contract even after this summer’s labour dispute and a new bid almost double the cost of the previous one. A report by city staff will be coming to council tomorrow, Dec. 1, recommends Emterra get the contract. The current contract with the city...

Kamloops may see new company sorting recyclables in 2016

KAMLOOPS - Recyclables collected by the City of Kamloops, both at depots and curbside, could be sorted by a new company come the new year. “We have already gone out to (request for proposals) to renew the contract essentially. To look for processors who can do the same work starting Jan. 1,” Public Works Director...

Curbside recycling pickup resumes Monday in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – With the Emterra Environmental strike officially over and the City of Kamloops says recycling collection will resume Monday. A tentative agreement between Emterra and the Steelworkers’ Union was struck and ratified unanimously by the union membership yesterday, Aug. 13. The recycling company and its employees had been locked in a labour dispute since June 22....

Agreement reached in Kamloops recycling strike

KAMLOOPS – An end is in sight for the recycling strike that has lasted nearly eight weeks in Kamloops after the Steelworker’s Union reached an agreement with Emterra Environmental today. The two sides reached a tentative deal Thursday, Aug. 13, and employees are set to vote on it this evening. Marty Gibbons, Steelworkers’ Union president,...

Kamloops recycling strike could be over as early as Friday

KAMLOOPS – There is finally an end in sight to the Emterra Environmental strike. Steelworks Union president Marty Gibbons says they are finally back to bargaining with the company and if an agreement is signed by noon tomorrow his members could be back to work as early as Friday. “We're optimistic that we're close to...

Union says recycling strike could last longer; city not paying Emterra

KAMLOOPS - Locals should brace themselves for even lengthier delays in recycling service; five weeks after Emterra Environmental workers began their strike, seats are still empty at the bargaining table. Marty Gibbons, the Kamloops chapter president of the local United Steelworkers union that represents the workers, says staff are digging in its heels for the...

TNRD says recycling services will continue

KAMLOOPS - Recycling pickup is not being offered to Kamloops residents while Emterra Environmental employees strike, but the regional district does not foresee any disruption in recycling services oustide of the city. In a release today, June 23, Jamie Vieira, Manager of Environmental Services for the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, says even though the district uses...