City encourages Montreal movers to use eco-centres
Last Updated: Monday, June 29, 2009 | 3:52 PM ET
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The city of Montreal is asking citizens to take unwanted items on moving day to eco-centres rather than abandoning them on neighbourhood streets. (CBC)The city of Montreal reminded citizens on Monday to take responsibility for their discarded goods during Montreal’s busiest moving week of the year.
Every year, thousands of leases in Quebec begin on July 1, creating a huge influx of people needing to move at the same time.
In an effort to avoid streets cluttered with junk on July 1 and beyond, the city asked Montrealers to take unwanted items such as furniture, window frames and television sets to their local eco-centres to be fixed up and resold.
Montreal has dozens of eco-centres across the city that accept items to be recycled.
Alan DeSousa, Montreal's executive committee member responsible for sustainable development, said each year about 50,000 tonnes of junk that are not properly disposed of become eyesores and potential fire hazards on the streets of Montreal.
DeSousa said many boroughs are adding extra heavy-waste collection days this week and said some eco-centres will be open longer hours so people can drop things off.
He said the city is doing its part, and asks that people now do their part to keep the streets free of debris.
"I think a lot of times people are not aware of what the services are or they don't plan their move properly and often they're left at the last minute saying, 'What do I do with this?' and that's when they usually put it out," DeSousa said.
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