Newsprint – 1,075 kg
Co-mingled* - 11,956 kg
Office Paper – 3,288 kg
Cardboard – 16,562 kg
Glass – 3,588 kg
Books - 544 kg
Total for 2017 – 36,953 kg
Total for 2016 – 34,434 kg
Difference – 2,519 kg
47 kg batteries (not included in weights)
8 Boxes fluorescent bulbs
E – waste – 9.03 metric tonnes
* Co-mingled is unsorted materials sent to Winnipeg for sorting
Comments - We are 2.5 tonnes ahead of last year's January which doesn't surprise me. This month always includes holiday recycling. This year's seemed like quite a bit more than other years, altho' it is easy to forget what it was like 12 months ago. The weights tell me I was right. There was 2 tonnes more of co-mingled materials and half a tonne more of cardboard. We also had half a tonne more of office paper which includes shredded paper. It seems many people are cleaning out old documents this time of year.
I am hoping this trend will hold for all of 2017.