4 new recycling centres to be built in Winnipeg

Four new community recycling centres will be built in Winnipeg ineach quadrant of the city.

The first two, on Pacific Avenue just west of McPhillips Street andat Brady Road Landfill, will be built next year at a cost of $7.2 million.

Sites for the other two centres in the east and west,have not yet been selected.

They will be built in 2014.

The "community resource recovery centres" will take in construction materials, bulk waste, e waste, household hazardous waste and yard waste, diverting about 10,000 tonnes of material from the landfill.

Deputy Mayor Russ Wyatt said more opportunities to recycle is what Winnipeggers have been asking for.

"We've heard from Winnipeggers over the past couple of months," he said. " And the need to have more options with regards to recycling, with regards to waste diversion, these centres will offer that."

The city says since August, with the implementation of the new garbage and recycling system, the amount of recyclable material collected has gone up by 30 percent, or more than 2,000 tonnes, compared to the same period last year.