Nearly half of Montreal’s 19 boroughs aren’t recycling glass, despite telling residents on the city website they can put it in their blue bin or bag.
Recycling in eight boroughs is taken to the sorting centre in the city’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood, which is managed by the company Ricova. The 11 other boroughs’ recycling goes to a new $47-million facility in Lachine, operated by another company contracted by the city, Société VIA.
Both sorting centres have had trouble separating glass from other recyclables, as well as cleaning it — but the Saint-Michel centre is the latest to have come under scrutiny for not even trying.
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