Second ecocentre closed
The St-Laurent ecocentre has been forced to close because its operator, Mélimax, was blacklisted for illegal dumping. Now a second ecocentre is in a squeeze because Melimax’s replacement is not up to speed.
It’s dispiriting to find out that the items you’ve carefully hung onto, rather than throwing out with the trash, then brought to an ecocentre for supposed proper disposal, were possibly just chucked into a field or forest somewhere.
dwgs 08:43 on 2019-05-04 Permalink
And as of yesterday the Lasalle one has been closed for an ‘indefinite’ period.
Kate 08:52 on 2019-05-04 Permalink
Yep, both are now closed. Taken together, Lasalle and St-Laurent represent a considerable chunk of western Montreal and include a lot of industrial plants. Let’s hope the city can find a solution, but it’s looking more and more like recycling is not viable when nobody wants to buy or deal with the growing heaps of material.
dwgs 09:54 on 2019-05-04 Permalink
My worry isn’t so much for the recycling as what will happen with all the household and renovation waste that usually goes there. We’re going to see a lot more paint cans, old tires, drywall, bags of old plaster etc. dumped in the lanes.