PRESS RELEASE
SIMCOE COUNTY
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Between June 6 and June 17, the county will maintain curbside clothes and textile collections to gather clear, dry, odor-free clothes from properties, together with these that can’t be reused.
Simcoe County residents can have acquired pink plastic clothes and textile baggage within the mail throughout Might. Assortment will happen in week one, June 6-10, or week two, June 13-17, relying on your property location/space. (Every family can have just one assortment).
Assortment will sometimes happen on the residents’ common assortment day through the family’s designated clothes assortment week. Pink clothes baggage or clear plastic baggage containing clothes and textiles should be positioned a minimal of two ft out of your carts on the curb by 7 a.m. for one more truck.
To find out your assortment date, obtain the Simcoe County Collects app. The app is on the market totally free on the App Retailer and Google Play. Info can be out there at www.simcoe.ca/waste or inside your waste calendar.
To ensure assortment, the baggage should be sealed and weigh lower than 20 kilograms. Objects should be clear, dry and odor free. Acceptable supplies embody:
- clear garments
- towels and pillows
- Coats and outerwear
- Hats, belts and scarves
- Purses, backpacks, sleeping baggage and baggage
- Sneakers, socks, and mittens in pairs (wrap elastic to carry collectively)
The collected clothes and textiles are despatched to a facility for sorting/sorting. Most supplies are reused in Canada and a few are reused/recycled as rags or acoustical filler or shipped abroad. Ninety-eight p.c of the collected materials will be reused/recycled. For extra info on our clothes assortment, go to www.simcoe.ca/clothingcollection.
Curbside electronics assortment will happen June 20-July 1. Please notice that households are assigned week one or week two assortment for the clothes and electronics assortment intervals. Your assigned week for every assortment schedule is constant.
Please notice that this program doesn’t apply to residents of the separate cities of Barrie and Orillia.
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