STEPHEN RICCIO
CLARENDON Sept. 21, 2020
The Municipality of Clarendon has decided to remove the after-hours garbage bins that were positioned outside of its transfer station on 7th Concession after experiencing ongoing abuse of the dumpsters.
Director General Patricia Hobbs said that . . .
the bins were intended for tax-paying Clarendon residents, but that locals will now have to dump their garbage within the operating hours of the transfer station.
The abuse of the dumpsters seems to have come from people not just in Clarendon, Hobbs said.
“What we were finding was it was a lot of garbage from not necessarily Clarendon,” she explained. “[The transfer station is] used by Clarendon and Shawville but that’s why we sell Clarendon bags that have our name on them.”
On top of the overfilling of the bins, Hobbs said that McGrimmon Cartage, the company that operates the transfer station, told the municipality that there was a lot of construction materials that should normally go over the scale that were being left after hours.
She said there was also hazardous waste being left there.
“It’s just too much.”
There is no current after-hours supplement to the bins, but Hobbs said that residents can continue to use the transfer station during its operating hours of 7:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. on Saturday.
