A new, five-year contract's been signed by the Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne and Portage and District Recycling.

Reeve Craig Spencer calls it the continuation of a partnership over many years.

He notes there was a tendering process involved, and PDRI was the successful bidder, "And we're, as of March 1st, tying up with Portage Recycling again for five more years. And within that, we're going to have a new service provided to some of our ratepayers -- we're going to have curb-side pick-up in the town of Rathwell and in Lavenham, which is a first."

One of Norfolk-Treherne's recycling depots (courtesy Norfolk-Treherne's website)

Craig Spencer

Spencer credits the LUD of Rathwell for starting recycling in the area many years ago. "Volunteers built a really nice recycling building," he says, "and they started it many years before the rest of us jumped on the bandwagon, so my hat's off to the people of Rathwell, and Rathwell area, who pushed for this, and we just carried it on. We now have three depots, we will have three towns getting curb-side pick-up, and we have commercial pick-up."

Spencer's pleased last year, Norfolk-Treherne recycled 196,900 pounds of material.