{"id":217383,"date":"2026-03-19T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=217383"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:30:16","slug":"wondering-why-your-alcoholic-beverage-bottles-arent-getting-picked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wondering-why-your-alcoholic-beverage-bottles-arent-getting-picked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering why your alcoholic beverage bottles aren&#8217;t getting picked up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That was the question posed by Councillor Dan Armour during waste discussions at a District Engineering and Public Works Committee meeting on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Armour said during the last couple of months, he&#8217;s received numerous calls about empty alcohol bottles being put out in recycling bins that weren&#8217;t picked up. &#8220;I&#8217;m just wondering why, because a glass bottle is a glass bottle.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renee Recoskie, District Director of Waste Management and Environmental Services, said that although recycling is no longer the District&#8217;s responsibility, alcohol bottles are subject to a deposit return system. &#8220;So, of course, their preference when setting up the transition to producer responsibility was that that existig program would be utilized for alcoholic beverage containers and then the rest of the recycling stream would be managed through that new program. I will say that we in Muskoka, as well as other municipalities, have been advocating to Circular Materials on ways to approach this for residents and to try to make sure that they&#8217;re not having their recycling turned away when they&#8217;re making best efforts,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So as far as we&#8217;re aware, that requirement has been loosened by Circular Materials so that they are still instructing GSL, who is our contractor, to pick up that material so if you do know of residents that are still experiencing challenges there, we could of course encourage them to reach out to Circular Materials but you can certainly make myself aware as well. We are trying to make sure that residents have a positive experience with recycling because it impacts what ends up going to our landfill, so we definitely want to work together on that,&#8221; added Recoskie.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information about changes to recycling in Muskoka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muskoka.on.ca\/en\/garbage-and-recycling\/blue-box-transition.aspx\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the question posed by Councillor Dan Armour during waste discussions at a District Engineering and Public Works Committee meeting on March 18. 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