The City of St. John’s is going to resume the collection of recycling on a monthly basis.

Residents with recycling accumulating in their homes have been raising questions about whether the city would resume the essential service.

The capital city says it will now collect recycling once a month and over the next two weeks—from April 20 to May 1—recycling will be picked up at the curb.

Pick up will occur on regularly scheduled days for each neighbourhood, with no limit on the number of bags that you can put out.

The City will offer recycling collection once a month until further notice. For the next two weeks recycling will be collected at the curb on your regular collection day:

A Areas -> April 20-24

B Areas -> April 27-May 1 See all details at: https://t.co/s4exmxMYcN pic.twitter.com/VmpfAwtbZw — City of St. John's (@CityofStJohns) April 16, 2020

Recycling will be collected in Area A from April 20-24 and in Area B from April 27 to May 1.

The next recycling collection will take place the week of May 19-22 in Area A, and May 25-29 in Area B.

April 20 is the St. George’s holiday for municipal and provincial government workers, but garbage collection will go ahead as usual.

Mount Pearl to Resume Collection

Meanwhile, the City of Mount Pearl says regular recycling collection resumes on Tuesday, April 21.

Mount Pearl has been working with the province, Workplace NL and others to come up with a safe way to resume recycling collection.

The City is asking residents to place no more than six bags of recyclables per household at the curb.