International Paper won a $42 million contract to manage the City's recycling program, for the next 14 years. The Vancouver-based company is now looking for spot to build a $14 million facility that will automatically sort and separate recyclables, allowing people to just mix their recyclables in their blue boxes. The company says the facility will probably be 50,000 sq.ft. and somewhere along a major street. The new facility will employ just over 50 people.
Mayor Glen Murray promised in his 1998 Mayoral election to include plastics such as margarine containers within the blue box program. The initiative dragged on for years, with Murray citing that it was too expensive to ship the plastics away.
Starting on December 1st, 2003, the city will be able to recycle plastics number 1, 2, 5 and 7. Right now, the city can only take number 1 and 2 plastics.- NewWinnipeg.com