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Garbage is a hot topic in Iroquois Falls these days

There’s a lot of trash talk going on around Iroquois Falls about just that: trash.

So we contacted Mayor Pat Britton to set the record straight on garbage problems.

In urban and rural areas, people are complaining that the guys who pick up the garbage are no longer taking it out of their bins — either in their yards or at roadside — when MNR recommends bins to keep bears out.

Britton says the town now does garbage pick-up internally, and the bylaw prohibits that.

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“Now we’ve got to get back to the bylaw,” the mayor explains.  “We’re having people, our employees, injuring their backs and stuff by pulling real heavy bags out of these bins and all that stuff.”

Mayor Pat Britton
(iroquoisfalls.com)

Britton is asking that you put your garbage at the roadside, in a garbage can, as close to your regular pick-up time as possible.

“It’s preferred to be in a container to make it easier handling for the guys,” he says.  “We’re actually looking to – because the new truck we have is capable of doing it, so it would be a one-man job, where the driver doesn’t get out of the truck.  He sits there and pulls up and dumps the garbage.”

That would make it the same as in Timmins, where a wheeled container is brought to the curb.

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