{"id":201469,"date":"2023-12-08T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=201469"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:15:49","slug":"tantramar-council-must-opt-in-or-out-of-continuing-to-collect-blue-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tantramar-council-must-opt-in-or-out-of-continuing-to-collect-blue-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Tantramar council must opt in or out of continuing to collect blue bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibility for recycling in New Brunswick is changing hands, and Tantramar council is facing a very fast decision over exactly how that plays out.<\/p>\n<p>At its next meeting on Tuesday, December 12, Tantramar council is expected to be presented with a choice of whether to opt in or out of direct involvement in a new provincial recycling system run by an industry group called Circular Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Tantramar is responsible for handling residential recycling pick up, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eco360.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECO 360<\/a>\u00a0looks after sorting and repurposing of those materials. The cost to run the recycling system has always rested on collective taxpayer shoulders. But that is changing now, with a new \u2018extended producer responsibility\u2019 (EPR) system being phased in across the province.<\/p>\n<p>CHMA listened in to a presentation from ECO 360\u2019s Sebastien Hultberg outlining the options for Tantramar as Circular Materials takes over blue bag recycling in the province.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibility for recycling in New Brunswick is changing hands, and Tantramar council is facing a very fast decision over exactly how that plays out. At its next meeting on Tuesday, December 12, Tantramar council is expected to be presented with a choice of whether to opt in or out of direct involvement in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":201476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222],"tags":[33957,26711,7715,5776,20501,11768],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201511,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201469\/revisions\/201511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201469"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=201469"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=201469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}